News
March 2024
Coherent control paper accepted in Nature Materials!
Oliver Powell presents at APS Meeting, USA.
January 2024
Dr. Hannah Stern starts as a Lecturer across the Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics at the University of Manchester.
The lab build in the Photon Science Institute at the University of Manchester is underway!
Katie, Dillon, Stephanie and Hannah attend the Sheffield Quantum Optics Winter School.
December 2023
Shichao Wang starts her Nano MPhil project with the group, working on deterministic defect creation in hBN!
November 2023
The group hosts 80 early career scientists for the M4QN Horizon Scanning UK Conference for Early Career Researchers.
October 2023
Oliver Powell and Stephanie Fraser graduate their MRes at the Senate House, Cambridge!
Dillon Lewis joins the group as an MPhil Student!
Catherine Curtin joins the group as a PhD student!
Dr. Hannah Stern awarded the 2023 Institute of Physics Henry Moseley Medal and Prize.
August 2023
Oliver Powell passes his first year viva.
Stephanie Fraser passes her NanoDTC midi viva.
Xiaoxi moves on to start her PhD in Oxford.
June 2023
Xiaoxi Deng wins the BP Nevill Mott Prize for top Part III research project!
Online preprint: ‘A quantum coherent spin in a two-dimensional material at room temperature.’
May 2023
Oliver Powell, Simone Eizagirre Barker and Hannah Stern present at BNW2023, Montpellier, France.
Stephanie Fraser joins for her Nano DTC Midi project: ‘Investigation of the spin coherence of charge-controlled two-dimensional spins’, in collaboration with Professor Stephan Hofmann.
Xiaoxi Deng submits her Part III thesis titled: ‘Towards the electronic ground-state spin model for optically active single defects in hexagonal Boron Nitride’.
March 2023
Publication: ‘Elusive excited states identified from cutting edge molecular movie’, Nature, News and Views.
February 2023
Stephanie Fraser presents her Nano DTC Mini project to the Nano cohort.
Dr. Hannah Stern presents as an invited speaker to AMN10, Rotorua, New Zealand.
December 2022
The team welcomes Dr. Carmem M. Gilardoni as a postdoctoral fellow.
Dr Hannah Stern features in ‘How to maintain mental health as a PhD student’
November 2022
Stephanie Fraser joins as a Nano DTC Mini student.
October 2022
Xiaoxi Deng joins as Part III Project student.
Oliver Powell joins as PhD student.
Dr Hannah Stern starts as Royal Society University Research Fellow.
August 2022
Dr Hannah Stern awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship.
Dr Hannah Stern chair at Defects in Semiconductors Gordon Research Seminar (New Hampshire) 2022.
June 2022
The team features in ‘What Does a Quantum Physicist Do All Day?’.
March 2022
Louis Follet joins for a six month internship.
February 2022
Dr Qiushi Gu passes his PhD viva.
Publication: ‘Room temperature ODMR of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride’, Nature Communications.
The M4QN conference, November 2023
Formal dinner at Gonville and Caius College
The group grows! We welcome Katie and Dillon
Xiaoxi Deng awarded the BP Neville Mott Prize
Farewelling Xiaoxi before she leaves for Oxford.
Hannah, Oli and Simone at BNW 2023, Montpellier.
Celebrating publication of our work in Nature Communications (2022).