Ian Walmsley
Principle Investigator & Provost of Imperial College London
A graduate of Imperial and the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics, I’ve been interested in the extraordinary properties of light for more than four decades. This has motivated our group’s research across experimental quantum and ultrafast optics and optical engineering, with applications to quantum information and quantum technologies.
Specific current areas of research include: the preparation and measurement of nonclassical states in light and matter; applications to sensing and simulation; photonic quantum memories to enable scalable quantum networks.
Current Members
Steven Sagona-Stophel
Post-Doc
Sarah Thomas
Research Fellow
Shang Yu
Post-Doc
Ewan Mer
PhD Student
Zhenghao Li
PhD Student
Aonan Zhang
Post-Doc
Mikhael Rasiah
PhD Student
Ilse Maillette de Buy Wenniger
Post Doc
Gerard Jimenez Machado
Post Doc
Paul Burdekin
Post Doc
Collaborators
Raj Patel
Principle investigator in Photonic Quantum Technologies
Imperial College London
ORCA Computing
Startup co-founded by Ian Walsmley and past staff, inspired by our ORCA-based quantum memories.
ORCA Computing uses quantum memory technology and leveraging an industry-standard infrastructure.
orcacomputing.com
Patrick Ledingham
Associate Professor & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Group Leader of Hybrid Quantum Networks Lab, hqnlab.com
University of Southampton
Past Members
Guillaume Thekkadath
Then: Post-doc 2021
Next position: Postdoctoral fellow at National Research Council Canada.
Santi Sempere-Llagostera
Then: Graduated PhD 2022
Next position: ORCA
Jonas Becker
Then: PostDoc 2021
Next Position: Assistant Professor at Michigan State University