People

Group Leader

Dr Patrick M Ledingham

  • From Mar 2022: Associate Professor in Physics and Group Leader of the Hybrid Quantum Networks Laboratory, University of Southampton, UK.
  • Jul 2020 – Feb 2022: Lecturer in Quantum, Light and Matter and Group Leader of the Hybrid Quantum Networks Laboratory, University of Southampton, UK.
  • Dec 2014 – Jun 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher/Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Ultrafast Quantum Optics Group, Prof. I. A. Walmsley, University of Oxford, UK.
  • Jul 2011 – Oct 2014: Research Engineer/Postdoctoral Researcher in the Quantum Photonics with Solids and Atoms Group, Prof. H. de Reidmatten, Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO), Spain.
  • Feb 2008 – Jun 2011: PhD in Physics in the Otago Quantum Optics Group, Dr Jevon Longdell, University of Otago, NZ. Thesis Title: “Optical Rephasing Techniques with Rare Earth Ion Dopants for Applications in Quantum Information Science“,
  • Mar 2004 – Oct 2007: Bachelor of Science in Physics (First Class Honours), University of Otago, NZ.

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr Ori Mor

  • From Aug 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Hybrid Quantum Networks Laboratory, University of Southampton, UK
  • Jan 2016-Sep 2021: PhD (Supervisors: Profs. Barak Dayan and Abraham Shanzer), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
  • Oct 2013-Dec 2015: MSc (Supervisors: Profs. Barak Dayan and Abraham Shanzer), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Vanderli Laurindo Junior

  • From Nov 2022: Senior Research Asst in Quantum Light Source in the Hybrid Quantum Networks Laboratory, University of Southampton, UK.
  • Mar 2018 -Dec 2022: PhD in Physics in the Semiconductor Nanostructures Group, Dr Marcio Daldin Teodoro, Federal University of Sao Carlos, BR. Thesis Title: Spin relaxation in nanostructures semiconductors 0 and 2D.
  • Aug 2014- Nov 2016: MSc in Plasma Physics, Douglas Marcel Leite, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, BR, Dissertation Title: Synthesis of TiO2 nanostructures by plasma process.  
  • Aug 2009 – Mar 2014: Licenciatura (BSc) in Physics, Federal University of Espirito Santo, BR.

PhD Students

Zakary Schofield

From Oct 2020: PhD Student in the Hybrid Quantum Networks Laboratory, University of Southampton, UK. Proposed thesis title: “Quantum Photonic Memory for Telecommunication Networks”

Oct 2016 – May 2020: Master of Physics, Loughborough University, UK


MPhys Students

Alice Christian-Edwards

From Oct 2022: MPhys with a Year of Experimental Research, University of Southampton, UK. Final year project: “Storage of Quantum Light in Hot Rubidium Vapour”


Former Members

Oliver Green

Ollie has joined the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering CDT , 2021 cohort, to begin his PhD research

Oct 2017- May 2021: MPhys with a Year of Experimental Research, University of Southampton, UK. Final year project: “Towards an Autler-Townes Splitting Based Quantum Memory in Warm Rubidium Vapour”