Craik leads the RAVIOLIS project (SNSF Starting Grant, started July 2025) measuring atomic parity violation in barium ions at <0.1% precision. Her entanglement protocol uses multi-ion entangled states with photonic integrated waveguide addressing to common-mode-reject parity-conserving systematics. Previous work: precision measurement of Ba+ dipole transition probabilities below 1% uncertainty; first laser-guided individual addressing of Ba+ qubits with <10^-4 intensity crosstalk; isotope-shift spectroscopy in Ca+ for fifth-force searches. She is actively recruiting for postdocs and PhD students for the new Ba+ ion trap experiment.

Biercuk's Quantum Control Laboratory sits precisely at the intersection of control engineering and precision measurement. The group uses trapped ytterbium ions — including large 2D Penning-trap crystals — as both quantum simulators and as calibrated sensors, and is best known for noise spectroscopy: using the qubit itself as a spectrum analyser of its environment, then designing dynamical-decoupling and open-loop control sequences that null the dominant noise. That programme produced Q-CTRL, his quantum control software company, and more recently a serious push into quantum sensing for navigation (magnetic anomaly navigation, quantum-enhanced RF sensing) as a commercial and defence application. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — his filter-function and noise-spectroscopy formalism is now standard equipment in the NV community for designing the DEER and dynamical-decoupling sequences that deliver pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity; a candidate from that background would find the theoretical toolkit immediately familiar. Large, well-funded group with strong industry pathways.

Brantut's lab studies quantum transport in ultracold Fermi gases, using them as quantum simulators for nanoscale solid-state devices. Research directions: (1) Mesoscopic quantum transport — fermionic cold atoms transported through quantum point contacts, studying conductance quantization, shot noise, and thermoelectric effects in atomic-scale channels; (2) Fermionic superfluidity in confined geometries — observing and probing pairing in constrictions; (3) Dissipation and open quantum systems — controlled introduction of loss to study non-Hermitian quantum physics; (4) Quantum thermometry in ultracold systems — using transport signatures as precision thermometers. Analogous to quantum Hall measurements and nanoelectronics in an ultra-clean platform.

Antoine Browaeys' group at LCF/IOGS is a world leader in neutral atom quantum simulation using optical tweezer arrays. Research: (1) Rydberg atom tweezer arrays for quantum simulation of strongly correlated many-body systems and quantum sensing; (2) dipole-dipole interactions in Rydberg ensembles; (3) co-founder and key researcher of Pasqal (neutral atom quantum computing company). The group works on scalable neutral atom platforms relevant to quantum sensors and quantum simulation. Open postdoc positions (2026).

Caldwell is a Royal Society University Research Fellow establishing the Molecular Quantum Matter Lab at UCL. Research directions: (1) Precision molecular spectroscopy for dark matter and fifth-force searches — measuring isotope shifts in molecular systems to test Standard Model predictions and probe new forces between neutrons and electrons; (2) Quantum control of molecules in external fields — laser cooling, Stark deceleration, and magneto-optical trapping of polar molecules; (3) Molecular beam spectroscopy with frequency comb referencing for ultra-high-precision lineshape measurements. The lab aims to build the most precise molecular spectrometer for BSM physics searches. Actively building the lab and seeking motivated students/postdocs.

Experimental AMO physicist using ultracold atoms and optical lattices for quantum simulation and sensing. Directions: (1) Efimov and few-body physics in ultracold Cs and Cs-Li mixtures; (2) quantum phase transitions and strongly correlated quantum matter in optical lattices; (3) optical tweezer arrays for single-atom and single-molecule quantum simulation. Develops novel imaging techniques for in-situ atomic density measurements.

Cotter leads the Quantum Navigation research stream at Imperial's Centre for Cold Matter. He develops compact, fieldable cold-atom inertial sensors for GPS-denied navigation. Milestones: first demonstration of a cold-atom accelerometer on the London Underground (measuring acceleration/vibration in a real transit environment); successful field trials of quantum inertial sensors aboard the Royal Navy research ship XV Patrick Blackett (2023); Arctic field trials with Royal Navy (2025). His sensors use magnetically launched cold-atom Rb clouds and simultaneous multi-axis interferometry. He also contributes to AION-related atom interferometry work and the Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing. Department of Materials cross-appointment.

Assembles optical-tweezer-trapped arrays of ultracold atoms and polar molecules (including NaRb) for quantum information science, quantum simulation, and cluster-state quantum computing, with associated Rydberg-based sensing capabilities.

Experimental AMO physicist focused on precision measurement for fundamental physics. Primary directions: (1) ACME experiment measuring electron electric dipole moment to unprecedented precision using ThO molecular beam — tests for new CP-violating physics beyond the Standard Model; (2) ultracold polar molecule quantum simulation and quantum information in optical tweezers. Atomic coherence techniques underpin SERF/OPM magnetometry. Joined UChicago from Yale 2022.

Igor Ferrier-Barbut (CNRS DR, LCF/IOGS) works on dipolar and Rydberg quantum systems for quantum simulation. Research: (1) dipolar dysprosium (Dy) quantum gases — magnetic dipole-dipole interactions, supersolids, quantum droplets; (2) sub-wavelength structured atomic arrays as quantum simulation platforms; (3) collective light-matter interactions in dense cold-atom ensembles. Jacques Herbrand Grand Prize 2022. ERC Starting Grant (CORSAIR). Works in the Browaeys/Lahaye quantum optics group.