Defienne leads the Quantum Imaging Paris group at INSP, using spatial correlations and Hong-Ou-Mandel-type interference between entangled photon pairs to build microscopes that see through scattering media and correct optical aberrations without a spatial light modulator. His ERC-funded CORAMI project develops correlation-based adaptive optics as a universal add-on module for existing microscopes, targeting deeper (>1 mm), higher-contrast in-vivo imaging for neuroscientists, dermatologists, and ophthalmologists.

PREFERRED. Lloyd is a theorist who derived the fundamental limits of accuracy for quantum sensors, detectors and imagers, and originated 'quantum illumination,' the use of entangled light to enhance target detection in the presence of loss and noise (a precursor to quantum radar/lidar concepts); this theoretical program directly underpins experimental quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging efforts elsewhere in the field.

Phillips works on quantum imaging (entangled/twin-photon imaging at the quantum limit) and label-free mid-infrared spectroscopic biomedical imaging; he co-founded Digistain, a spin-out applying infrared spectroscopic histopathology to rapid cancer diagnostics.