Dr. Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis
Reader (Associate Professor) in Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Strathclyde

Konstantinos Lagoudakis studied Physics at the National Kapodistrian University in Athens, Greece where he received a Bachelor of Science with specialization in Solid State Physics. He did a Master of Science in Optics and Photonics at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, United Kingdom. In 2006 he joined the Laboratory of Quantum Optoelectronics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland where he completed a PhD on fundamental properties of exciton-polariton condensates under the supervision of Benoit Deveaud. His ground-breaking experimental demonstrations of integer and fractional vortices in polariton condensates earned him the prestigious Swiss Physical Society award on general physics, the 6th EPFL Press Distinction prize and the EPFL doctorate award. In 2012 he joined the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics group of Jelena Vuckovic at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow. He received two consecutive prestigious fellowships by the Swiss National Science Foundation that funded his stay for the first three years. During his postdoc, he developed a versatile magnetic spectroscopy setup with coherent control capabilities in order to investigate spin-photon interfaces using a broad variety of quantum emitters ranging from self-assembled and site-controlled quantum dots to silicon vacancies in diamond. In 2016, he was appointed Associate Research Scientist at Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory working on scalable nanophotonics with novel quantum emitter platforms. In 2018 he joined the Physics Department at the University of Strathclyde as a Reader (Associate Professor), where he is leading the effort for the development of Hybrid Quantum Technologies.

Mr Kristopher Barr
Doctoral Student,
Department of Physics,
University of Strathclyde

Mr Kristopher Barr studied Physics at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland where he received a Bachelor of Science in Physics. In 2020 he joined the Experimental Quantum Nanoscience Lab as a PhD candidate and has been working on the development of the all-optical coherent control experimental setup. He is currently investigating spin state tailoring in charged quantum dots by means of ultrafast coherent control in oblique magnetic fields.

Mr Christoforos Iakovou
Masters Student,
Department of Physics,
University of Strathclyde

Christoforos Iakovou arrived in Glasgow, Scotland in 2018 and is a graduate student in the Masters of Physics degree with Advanced Research at the University of Strathclyde. Christoforos is currently conducting photoluminescence studies of pyramidal quantum dots by means of magnetic spectroscopy at the Experimental Quantum Nanoscience Lab (EQNL), led by Dr. Konstantinos Lagoudakis. Formerly, at EQNL, he also pursued his 4th year undergraduate project, where he developed, characterised, and tested a scanning laser confocal microscope for imaging quantum emitters, and in 2019-2020 as a research assistant, he developed and tested a thermocouple vacuum gauge. In the summer of 2021, as an EPSRC Vacation Intern, he studied self-structuring and synchronisation phenomena of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Dr. Gordon R. M. Robb of the CNQO group, also at Strathclyde. During the summer of 2022, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Waterloo’s Institute of Quantum Computing (IQC) within the Quantum Simulation group of Dr. Alexandre Cooper-Roy, where he worked on realising a pulse shaping and intensity stabilisation feedback system.