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Department(s)/lab(s): Applied Physics | Moler Group @ Stanford
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Moler's lab builds scanning SQUID microscopes -- magnetic-flux sensors cooled to cryogenic temperatures and scanned within microns of a sample -- to image supercurrents, vortices, and interfacial magnetism in unconventional superconductors and topological materials with sensitivity and spatial resolution that complements ensemble NV-diamond magnetometry (which reaches pT/√Hz via DEER/T1-type protocols) at a very different length and field scale.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics and Astronomy (AMOPP) | Monteiro Theoretical Quantum Optomechanics Group @ UCL
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Monteiro works on the theory and control of levitated optomechanical systems, including a stable 3D velocity feedback cooling scheme for independently controlling all three translational modes of an optically levitated nanoparticle with minimal cross-talk. Levitated optomechanics of this kind is being developed both as a force/impulse sensor of exquisite sensitivity and, in collaboration with UCL colleagues including Peter Barker, as a testbed for macroscopic quantum states relevant to proposed gravity-entanglement experiments.

Department(s)/lab(s): Department of Physics, 2nd Institute of Physics | Monzel Group - Biophysics and Biophotonics (2. Physikalisches Institut) @ Stuttgart
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Monzel holds the biophysics/biophotonics professorship at Stuttgart's 2nd Institute of Physics. The group develops multiparametric imaging spectroscopy and high-resolution light microscopy -- combining super-resolution, fluorescence-fluctuation and lifetime-resolved methods -- to read out several observables at once in living cells and in biomimetic model membranes, and pairs this with magnetic nanoparticles used to apply and sense forces on cell-surface receptors (magnetogenetic control of signalling). Single-molecule analysis inside cells is an explicit focus. Relative to the established NV-ensemble quantum-sensing playbook (DEER, nanoscale NMR, T1 relaxometry at pT/sqrt(Hz) ensemble sensitivity), this is the closest thing at Stuttgart to a natural biological host for in-cell quantum sensing: the group already does single-molecule-resolution live-cell imaging and already works with magnetic nanoparticles, so nanodiamond relaxometry/thermometry would slot in with the readout stack it already runs. Relatively new appointment -- good moment to join.

Department(s)/lab(s): Institute of Astronomy / DAMTP | Moore Group @ Cambridge
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Moore develops novel Bayesian data-analysis techniques for gravitational-wave time-series data from merging black hole binaries, using these signals to probe astrophysics and fundamental physics, including tests of general relativity and constraints from future space-based (LISA) observations.

Department(s)/lab(s): School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications | Fundamental Quantum Technologies Laboratory (Morello) @ UNSW
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Morello heads the Fundamental Quantum Technologies Laboratory and is the person who first read out the spin of a single electron, and then a single nucleus, in silicon. Current directions: high-spin donors (antimony-123, with eight nuclear levels) used as qudits and as sensors of local strain and electric field; nuclear acoustic resonance, in which a strain wave rather than a magnetic field drives the nuclear spin; engineered decoherence experiments as tests of quantum foundations; and precision tomography of multi-qubit donor registers. The group's donors are among the longest-coherence solid-state spins known (seconds for nuclei). Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work β€” DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity β€” a single-donor nuclear spin in silicon is functionally an NV centre with better coherence and worse readout: the same DEER, dynamical-decoupling and nuclear-register protocols apply, and the group's high-spin qudit work is aimed at exactly the multi-level sensing enhancements that the NV community is now chasing. Preferred attribute present: sensitivity and coherence, not fabrication, are the limiting variables here.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Astrophysics Group @ Imperial
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Mortlock develops Bayesian statistical methods to find and characterise rare astrophysical objects in large sky surveys, most notably the discovery of some of the most distant known quasars, informing early-Universe black-hole growth and reionisation studies.

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Department(s)/lab(s): Electronic and Electrical Engineering / London Centre for Nanotechnology | Morton Group / UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute @ UCL
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Morton directs UCL's Quantum Science and Technology Institute and is Deputy Director of the Q-BIOMED hub. His group manipulates electron and nuclear spins in nanoscale materials (silicon donors, diamond defects) to build quantum sensors, quantum memories, and quantum computing hardware, and within Q-BIOMED is pursuing magnetic-resonance quantum sensing at the single-cell level. He is also a co-founder of the quantum computing spinouts Quantum Motion and Phasecraft.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | H. Mueller Atom Interferometry Lab @ UCB
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Mueller's group performs light-pulse atom interferometry at extreme precision to test the equivalence principle, measure the fine-structure constant, and search for new physics, developing techniques (large momentum transfer, squeezed-atom methods) that also underlie compact atom-interferometric gravimeters and gyroscopes. The lab is actively recruiting postdocs.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics / Niels Bohr Institute | Quantum Metrology Group (MΓΌller Lab) @ UCPH
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JΓΆrg MΓΌller's Quantum Metrology group works on next-generation optical atomic clocks and superradiant lasers. Key experiments: cold strontium continuous superradiant laser (subnatural linewidth, pushing beyond traditional clock limitations); microresonator-based frequency combs; ultra-stable optical reference cavities; and cavity QED many-atom systems for clocks and sensing. The group is part of the EU iqClock project targeting operational optical lattice clocks.

Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences | R. Muller Lab @ UCB
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Muller designs wireless, miniaturized CMOS integrated circuits for closed-loop neural recording and stimulation (including the WAND platform), pushing implantable bioelectronic sensing toward fully autonomous, battery-free operation.