Rowlands develops new optical imaging technologies for biology and medicine, including label-free vibrational (coherent Raman) microscopy and computational imaging approaches aimed at faster, higher-resolution biomedical imaging.
Giulia Rubino's research bridges quantum foundations and quantum technologies using integrated photonics. Research: (1) indefinite causal order — experimental demonstration of quantum switch using photonic chips; (2) quantum thermodynamics — fundamental limits of thermodynamic work extraction in quantum systems; (3) quantum information processing with photonic integrated circuits. Appointed Lecturer January 2024.
Rudolph is a pioneer of measurement-based and fusion-based photonic quantum computing architectures; he co-founded PsiQuantum and continues to work on the theory of scalable linear-optical quantum computation and quantum foundations at Imperial.
Rueda leads a single-molecule imaging group (jointly at Imperial and the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences) that combines single-molecule FRET, fluorogenic RNA aptamer imaging and optical tweezers to reveal the structural dynamics of RNA folding/splicing, CRISPR-Cas9 target search and off-target activity, and chromatin-remodelling complexes; the aptamer-imaging technology has been spun out as the startup Irida.
Applies advanced single-molecule biosensing to study the cyanobacterial circadian clock — the only fully reconstitutable in vitro biochemical oscillator. Directions: (1) single-molecule FRET and fluorescence imaging to track conformational states of KaiC ATPase during clock cycles with single-protein resolution; (2) single-molecule reconstitution of the complete KaiA/KaiB/KaiC oscillator; (3) mathematical modeling of biochemical oscillation. Technique focus: single-molecule fluorescence as quantitative biosensing tool for protein conformational dynamics. Joint appointment Microbiology.
Safavi-Naeini's group engineers nanoscale optomechanical and electromechanical devices -- phononic-crystal membranes and superconducting-circuit-coupled resonators -- for quantum-limited force and displacement sensing and for coherent microwave-to-optical quantum transduction linking superconducting qubits to photonic quantum networks.
Studies neutral-atom quantum computing and quantum optics with Rydberg atoms in optical tweezer arrays, including entanglement, nonlinear optics, and Rydberg-based electrometry/sensing.
Salemi builds millikelvin-scale microwave-cavity and quantum-sensor-read-out haloscopes to search for axion dark matter, relying on near-quantum-limited amplifiers to detect the vanishingly small signals expected from axion-photon conversion in a magnetic field. The lab is actively recruiting postdocs.
Samra develops telescopes and spectrometers flown on aircraft and balloons to observe the solar corona at EUV and infrared wavelengths, including solar magnetometry, optical design, and modeling — a borderline but included astronomy-instrumentation case given its magnetometric sensing goal, though the platform is a classical (non-quantum) spectropolarimeter.
Laurent Sanchez-Palencia (CNRS DR / Professor, CPHT, École Polytechnique) leads the Quantum Matter theory group. Research: (1) many-body quantum simulation with cold atoms in optical lattices — disorder and Anderson localisation, strongly correlated phases; (2) ultracold atoms in optical quasicrystals and moiré lattices — exotic band structures and correlated phases; (3) quantum entanglement and metrology — theoretical proposals for entanglement-enhanced sensing; (4) non-equilibrium quantum dynamics and thermalization. Deputy Director Quantum-Saclay. ERC Starting 2011. Prix Leconte 2012 (Académie des Sciences). Moved to CPHT from Institut d'Optique 2016.