Sipahigil leads the Berkeley Quantum Devices Group, which integrates diamond and silicon-carbide color-center spin qubits with nanophotonic cavities to build quantum networks and solid-state quantum sensors, spanning superconducting circuits to color-center-based quantum memories. The group is actively recruiting postdocs.

Smith leads the Photonic Nanomaterials Group, studying nanostructured materials (semiconductor nanocrystals, diamond colour centres) coupled to open-access tunable optical microcavities, with applications spanning efficient spin-photon interfaces for NV-diamond quantum networks and single-photon sources.

Peter Smith (Professor, ORC Southampton) develops integrated photonic devices for quantum technologies and sensing. Research: (1) direct UV laser writing — waveguides and Bragg gratings in silica/glass for atom-trap integrated optics; (2) quantum photonic circuits — integrated waveguides for quantum computing and communication; (3) PPLN and nonlinear optics — electrical poling of LiNbO₃ for wavelength conversion (Covesion spinout); (4) integrated sensing — chemical/biological sensors and optofluidic microfluidic chips; (5) applications to cold atom systems — 'Integrated optical elements for miniaturised atom traps'. Spin-outs: Covesion, Stratophase.

Gary Steele's lab works on quantum circuits and mechanical quantum systems, exploring quantum phenomena in nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) and superconducting circuit systems. Research includes: (1) superconducting qubit-membrane optomechanics and electromechanics; (2) circuit quantum acoustodynamics (cQAD) — coupling superconducting qubits to phonons; (3) analog quantum simulation with quantum circuits; (4) probing quantum materials (graphene, 2D materials) with superconducting circuits. The group develops novel quantum sensors for mechanical forces and electromagnetic fields.

Sumner is a founding figure of the UK dark-matter direct-detection programme (ZEPLIN series, now LZ), working on liquid-xenon TPC design, radiopurity and background control for rare-event searches.

Tim Taminiau (QuTech team leader, Assoc Prof) develops NV-center quantum registers for sensing and quantum networks. Research: (1) NV-center nuclear spin registers — quantum control of up to 50 coupled 13C nuclear spins; (2) nanoscale NMR sensing — mapping external spin networks with sub-nm resolution; (3) silicon-carbide spin qubits — VSi centres for scalable quantum networks with fast entanglement rates; (4) quantum error correction in multi-spin diamond registers. NWO Vici Grant 2026. Quadrupolar nuclear spin spectroscopy of individual nuclei (Nano Letters 2024). Key for sensing proteins at nanoscale.

Tan leads the Superconducting Quantum Detectors group, holding ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants. Two main research pillars: (1) Quantum-limited SIS mixer development — pushing THz SIS heterodyne receivers above the Nb gap (~700 GHz) using NbTiN/NbN films for next-generation ALMA wideband sensitivity upgrade (Band 9) and large-format focal-plane mixer arrays for JCMT/SMA; (2) Superconducting parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) — fabricating kinetic-inductance and Josephson-junction TWPAs achieving near-quantum-limited broadband noise performance from microwave to THz, with applications to dark matter/axion searches (ABRACADABRA/prototype cavity haloscope), quantum computing qubit readout, and CMB-grade receivers. Group is transitioning TWPA fabrication in-house using Beecroft Building cleanroom. ERC Consolidator Grant awarded 2024.

Tarbutt co-leads the Imperial eEDM experiment using YbF molecules and runs an independent molecular array quantum computing/sensing programme. Two parallel eEDM experiments: (1) Ultracold YbF beam — 2D transverse laser cooling producing 200 μK, 2×10^5 molecules/shot, eEDM sensitivity of 1.8×10^−28 e·cm/day (near shot-noise limit); (2) YbF 3D optical lattice — aiming for 10^−30 e·cm/year, requires laser cooling to μK and loading into 3D optical lattice, using novel all-optical spin polarisation and analysis. Also leads UKRI project on testing fundamental physics using arrays of ultracold molecules (CaF in optical tweezers for two-qubit molecular gates). These experiments probe CP-violation and BSM physics at PeV energy scales through precision molecular spectroscopy.

Tesi leads an independent group at Stuttgart's Institute of Physical Chemistry working on optically addressable molecular spin systems -- the effort to reproduce the NV centre's defining trick (optical initialization and readout of a spin) in a designed molecule, where chemistry rather than crystal growth sets the properties. Work spans photogenerated spin-correlated radical pairs, ODMR on molecular chromophore-radical systems, spin-phonon coupling and coherence engineering, and embedding of molecular spins in films and matrices. Relative to the established NV-ensemble quantum-sensing playbook (DEER, nanoscale NMR, T1 relaxometry at pT/sqrt(Hz) ensemble sensitivity), this is arguably the most direct molecular analogue in the search: the target sensitivity and readout protocols are borrowed straight from NV ensembles, but the emitter is synthetic. Newer, smaller group; good fit for a postdoc who wants to own a direction rather than inherit one.

Thompson leads the Ion Trapping Group at Imperial using RF (Paul) traps with laser-cooled Ca-40 ions and Penning traps. Research foci: (1) High-fidelity quantum logic gates — optimal control techniques for single-ion state manipulation and two-qubit gates; demonstrated >1 s coherence times via Ramsey interferometry in a Penning trap; (2) Precision spectroscopy — ytterbium ion optical clock uncertainty characterisation at 2.2×10^−18 fractional uncertainty (NPL collaboration); proposed precision laser spectrometer for highly charged ions (HCI) in cylindrical Penning traps for QED tests; (3) Axion sensing — collaborating with Devlin on the Penning-trap single-electron photon counter for axion searches; (4) Coulomb crystals — ultrahigh resolution spectroscopy of ion crystals. Past work includes SPECTRAP project at GSI Darmstadt for HCI spectroscopy.