AMOPP Academic Staff

Prof Angus Bain

Research themes: Optical Biophysics

Experiment

Details: Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy

Office: Room B20, Physics Building

Email: a.bain[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Peter Barker 

Research themes: Quantum Optomechanics; Quantum Interfaces & Sensing; Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics

Experiment

Group website

Office: Room A8, Physics Building

Email: p.barker[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Sougato Bose

Research themes: Quantum Optomechanics; Quantum Optics & Quantum Information Theory; Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics

Theory

Details: Quantum Information

Group website

Office: Room A18, Physics Building

Email: s.bose[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Dan Browne

Research themes: Quantum Optics & Quantum Information Theory

Theory

Details: Quantum Information

Group website

Office: Room A16, Physics Building

Email: d.browne[at]ucl.ac.uk

Dr Luke Caldwell

Research themes: Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics; Molecular Physics & Spectroscopy

Experiment

Group website

Office: Room A6, Physics Building

Email: luke.caldwell[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Research themes: Optical Biophysics; Quantum Optics & Quantum Information Theory

Theory

Details: Quantum physics of biomolecular processes

Group website

Office: Room B12, Physics Building

Email: a.olaya[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof David Cassidy

Research themes: Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics

Experiment

Details: Positronium spectroscopy

Group website

Office: Room A24, Physics Building

Email: d.cassidy[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Agapi Emmanouilidou

Research themes: Attosecond Physics

Theory

Details: Attosecond phenomena in strong-field, single-photon and free-electron-laser processes

Group website

Office: Room B12a, Physics Building

Email: a.emmanouilidou[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria

Research themes: Attosecond Physics

Theory

Details: Correlated multielectron processes in strong laser fields (laser-induced nonsequential double and multiple ionization); Attosecond pulses; Attosecond control of matter; Applications of high-order harmonic generation and above-threshold ionization; Molecules in intense laser fields; Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems

Group website

Office: Room 230, Wilkins Building

Email: c.faria[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Stephen Hogan

Research themes: Quantum Interfaces & Sensing; Molecular Physics & Spectroscopy; Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics;

Experiment

Details: Atoms and molecules in high Rydberg states

Group website

Office: Room A10, Physics Building

Email: s.hogan[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Tania Monteiro

Research themes: Quantum Optomechanics; Quantum Optics & Quantum Information Theory

Theory

Details: Quantum Dynamics and Optomechanics; Quantum optomechanics

Group website

Office: Room A12, Physics Building

Email: t.monteiro[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Jonathan Oppenheim

Research themes: Quantum Optics & Quantum Information Theory; Precision Tests of Fundamental Physics

Theory

Details: Quantum information theory; Quantum gravity & black holes; Quantum Thermodynamics; Foundations of quantum mechanics

Group website

Office: Room B18, Physics Building

Email: j.oppenheim[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Ferruccio Renzoni

Research themes: Quantum Interfaces & Sensing

Experiment

Details: Magnetic Induction Tomography with Atomic Magnetometers; Sub-Fourier signal processing with non-linear systems

Group website

Office: Room D11, Physics Building

Email: f.renzoni[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Alessio Serafini

Research themes: Quantum Optics & Quantum Information Theory; Quantum Optomechanics

Theory

Details: Continuous variable quantum information

Group website

Office: Room 227, Wilkins Building

Email: serale[at]theory.phys.ucl.ac.uk

Prof Jonathan Tennyson

Research themes: Molecular Physics & Spectroscopy

Theory

Details: ExoMol

Group website

Office: Room A4, Physics Building

Email: j.tennyson[at]ucl.ac.uk  

Prof Sergey Yurchenko

Research themes: Molecular Physics & Spectroscopy

Theory

Details: ExoMol

Group website

Office: Room 226, Wilkins Building

Email: s.yurchenko[at]ucl.ac.uk

Prof Marzena Szymanska

Research themes: Quantum Optics & Quantum Information Theory

Theory

Details: far from equilibrium quantum collective phenomena; non-equilibrium dynamics; dissipative and driven quantum systems; light-matter interactions; non-equilibrium phase transitions; superfluidity; disorder; quantum coherence, decoherence and entanglement

Group website

Office: Room 238, Wilkins Building

Email: m.szymanska[at]ucl.ac.uk

Dr Valentina Zhelyazkova                                                                                        

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Research Themes: Molecular Physics & Spectroscopy

Experiment

Details: Rydberg atoms and molecules; cold chemistry; ion-molecule reactions

Office: Room A2, Physics Building

Email: valentina.zhelyazkova[at]ucl.ac.uk