News
January 2025
Sivasruthi Kesavan joins the group as a PhD student!
October 2024
Finlay Campbell joins the group as a PhD student!
September 2024
Hannah Stern starts as an Associate Professor in Department of Materials, University of Oxford.
Dillon Lewis graduates with his Masters!
August 2024
New paper on hBN spin defects as nanoscale quantum sensors is online, work lead by Carmem M. Gilardoni and Simone Eizagirre Barker.
July 2024
Hannah Stern interviewed by Physics World.
June 2024
Hannah Stern awarded an EPSRC New Investigator Award.
Tianyi Fu and Finlay Campbell join the lab as summer interns, the lab build begins.
May 2024
Coherent control paper is online! Press release Manchester, press release Cambridge.
April 2024
Simone Eizagirre Barker presents at QuantumMatter 2024, Spain
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 group 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.
Siva joins the group!
Finlay Campbell joins the group!
Tianyi starts the lab build , Oxford.
Interview with Physics World
The group hosts the M4QN Early Career conference, Nov 2023
Formal dinner, Nov 2023.
The group grows! We welcome Katie, Stephanie and Dillon, Oct 2023.
Xiaoxi Deng awarded the BP Neville Mott Prize, 2023.
Farewelling Xiaoxi.
Hannah, Oli and Simone at BNW 2023.
Celebrating publication of our work in Nature Communications (2022).