Richard Thompson

Richard did his DPhil in the area of atomic spectroscopy (pressure broadening of spectral lines). He then spent a year working at the Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe on laser spectroscopy of unstable isotopes. After a further year in Oxford working mainly on the Oxford atomic parity violation experiment he moved to the National Physical Laboratory where he was involved in the first UK experiment on laser cooling of trapped ions. He moved to Imperial College as a lecturer in 1986 where he set up experiments on quantum optics with laser cooled trapped ions. He is currently involved in practical quantum information processing studies with trapped ions. He is now a Reader in Physics at Imperial College and has other research interests in the physics of music.

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Danny Segal

Danny Segal did his PhD and early post-doctoral work in collision physics. He is currently involved in the ion trapping experiments in the field of quantum information processing and has an interest in cavity-QED with trapped ions which is maintained through a collaboration with the NPL group. He was also involved in a collaboration with the Open University (UK) and the University of Hertfordshire (UK) on giant Kerr nonlinearities in EIT systems. He is coordinator of the QGATES collaboration.

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Dan Crick

Born 1982
2001 - 2005 MPhys (Physics), Oxford University
2005 - 2009 PhD, Imperial College
2009 - 2010 Research fellow, Sussex university
2010 - present Postdoctorial Researcher, Imperial College

Dan completed his PhD in 2009. He is working on laser cooling and manipulation of small numbers of ions in Penning traps. Dan is funded by the EU FP7 PICC research project.

Shailen Bharadia

Shailen is an experimental physicist. He recently completed his PhD on Laser Spectroscopy of highly charged ions, with the SPECTRAP collaboration. The purpose of this project is to test QED in high field to higher orders than previous studied. His PhD was finded by GSI.

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Sandeep Mavadia

Sandeep is a PhD student funded by the EPSRC. He is working on single ion experiments in Penning traps.

Joe Goodwin

Joe is a PhD student funded by the Controlled Quantum Dynamics DTC. He is working on sub-Doppler laser cooling of ions in Penning traps.

Graham Stutter

Graham is an PhD student funded by the Controlled Quantum Dynamics DTC. He is working on laser frequency stabilisation for trapped ion applications.