Our people
Centre Director
Professor Gavin Brennen
Gavin Brennen joined the faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University in 2007 and is a CI in the ARC Centre for Excellence in Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS). He leads a theory research group working on many body quantum information, quantum simulation & computation, including implementations of quantum technologies with AMO and superconducting systems. Gavin hails from Fairbanks, Alaska and completed his PhD studies at the University of New Mexico, followed by work as a post-doc at NIST Gaithersburg, and Senior Scientist at IQOQI, Innsbruck.
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
| Name | Contact Details | |
 | Dominic Berry School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences ARC Future Fellow | E6B-7 Wally's Walk 2.408 E: dominic.berry@mq.edu.au T: +61 (2) 9850 6370 |
 | Gavin Brennen School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Professor, ARC CoE EQuS | E6B-7 Wally's Walk 2.611 E: gavin.brennen@mq.edu.au T: +61 (2) 9850 4445 |
| Daniel Burgarth School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences | E6A-9 Wally's Walk 248 E:daniel.burgarth@mq.edu.au |
 | Alexei Gilchrist School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Associate Professor, ARC CoE EQuS | E6A-9 Wally's Walk 2.409 E: alexei.gilchrist@mq.edu.au T: +61 (2) 9850 4443 |
| Rich Mildren School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Professor, ARC Future Fellow, Winner of the 2017 Eureka prizes | E6B-7 Wally's Walk 2.715 E: rich.mildren@mq.edu.au T: +61 (2) 9850 8965 |
 | Michael Steel Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) Professor | E6B-7 Wally's Walk 2.713 |
 | Daniel Terno School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Associate Professor | E6A-9 Wally's Walk 248 |
 | Thomas Volz School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer | E6A-9 Wally's Walk 248 E: thomas.volz@mq.edu.au T: +61 (2) 9850 8261 |
Partner Members from Other Departments
| Name | Contact Details | |
| David Inglis Department of Engineering |
7 Wally's Walk, Room 127 E: david.inglis@mq.edu.au T: +61 (2) 9850 9144 |
Advisor Board
| Prof. Jason Twamley (Univ of Okinawa, Japon) |
| Prof. Fedor Jelezko (Univ. of Ulm, Germany) |
| Dr. Luke Uribarri (Lockheed Martin Inc.) |
| Dave Wecker (Microsoft Inc.) |
Ray O. Johnson (Technology Innovation Inst.) |
Members
| Prof Gavin Brennen, MAPS |
| A/Prof Daniel Burgath, MAPS |
| Dr. Dominic Berry (Future Fellow), MAPS |
| Prof Alexei Gilchrist, MAPs |
| Prof Rich Mildren (Future Fellow), MAPS |
| Prof Mike Steel, MAPs |
| A/Prof Daniel Terno, MAPS |
| A/Prof Thomas Volz, MAPS |
| Prof Peter Turner, MAPS |
| Prof Jason Twamley, Honorary Affiliate |
Post-docs
| Name | Area of expertise |
| Pedro Contino Da Silva Costa Honorary Associate E6A-9 Wally's Walk 242 E: pedro.costa@mq.edu.au |
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Eric Howard |
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| Mattias Johnsson Honorary Associate E6A-9 Wally's Walk 242 E:mattias.johnsson@mq.edu.au |
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| Cyril Laplane Honorary Associate E6A-9 Wally's Walk 242 E: cyril.laplane@mq.edu.au |
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| Sarath Raman Nair Honorary Associate E6A-9 Wally's Walk 242 E: sarath.raman.nair@mq.edu.au |
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| Reece Roberts Honorary Associate E6A-9 Wally's Walk 242 E: reece.roberts@mq.edu.au |
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| Lorenzo Scarpelli Honorary Associate E6A-9 Wally's Walk 242 E: lorenzo.scarpelli@mq.edu.au |
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| Mikolaj Schmidt Honorary Associate E6B-7 Wally's Walk 2.407 E:mikolaj.schmidt@mq.edu.au |
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Students
| Name | Current research project |
Daniel Blay | Theory of frequency state translation and multi-colour interference in the quantum multimode regime. |
Lyra Cronin | Applications of novel maser technology with nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond |
Anirban Dey | Generalized adiabatic theorem for more robust quantum control. |
Jemy Geordy | Bayesian estimation of blinking in nano-diamond color centres |
Alexander Hahn | Robust Quantum Control in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era |
Daniel George | Covariant descriptions of bandlimited quantum field theory using wavelets |
Sebastian Murk | Study of implications arising from a background-independent theory of quantum gravity |
Omar Raii | Topological Quantum Control |
Louis Tessler | Optimising Quantum Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation |
Elisabeth Wagner | Unitary and Non-Unitary Quantum Cellular Automata |
James White | Development of optofluidic microchips for the sorting of bright nanodiamonds |
Zsolt Szabo | Getting error-resilient new qubits to work |
Riddhi Ghosh | Wick rotation and quantum control |
Visitors
| Date | Name | Location |
| 25 January - 28 January 2022 | Dr. Jason Pye | University of Waterloo |
| 19 February - 28 February 2020 | Dr Sundance Bilson Thompson | University of Adelaide |
| 13 - 21 December 2018 | Ajit Srivastava | Emory University |
| 3 Nov - 29 November 2018 | Alexia Auffeves | Institut Neel - CNRS |
| 3 Nov - 5 December 2018 | Maxime Richard | Institut Neel - CNRS |
| 23 July - 26 November 2018 | Mr Jacob Gade Koefoed | Technical University of Denmark, DK |
| 10 August - 11 September 2018 | Prof Brian Dolan | National University of Ireland Maynooth, IR |
| 5 August - 15 August 2018 | Prof Jon Dowling | Louisiana State University, USA |
| 1 August - 29 August 2018 | Mishkat Bhattacharya | Rochester Institute of Technology, USA |
| 20 July - 5 August 2018 | Dr James Butler | Gemological Institute of America, USA |
| 12 July 2018 | Dr Nicholas Rubin | Rigetti Quantum Computing, USA |
| 11 July -13 July 2018 | Dr Ryan Babbush | Google, AUS |
| 31 May - 1 June 2018 | Dr Niccolo Somaschi | Quandela, FR |
| 28 April - 11 May 2018 | Prof Rob Mann | University of Waterloo |
| 10 September - 6 October 2017 | Dr Marco Ornigotti | University of Rostock, Germany |
| 06 August - 19 August 2017 | Prof Jon Dowling | Louisiana State University, USA |
| 2010-2017 | Distinguished visitor Prof. Gabriel Molina-Terriza | Material Physics Center CFM (UPV/EHU), Spain |
| 04 March 2017 - 4 March 2018 | Dr James Cresser | University of Glasgow, Scotland |
| 15 February - December 2017 | Dr Jan Jeske | RMIT University |
| 23 November – 18 December 2015 | Dr Alexia Auffeves | French National Centre for Scientific Research, France |
| 15 November -5 December 2015 | A/Prof Sile Nic Chomaic | Ojinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan |
| 15 November -5 December 2015 | A/Prof Thomas Busch | Ojinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan |
| 8 November – 18 December 2015 | Dr Maxime Richard | French National Centre for Scientific Research, France |
| 18 October – 25 October 2015 | Prof Fedor Jelezko | University of Ulm, Germany |
| 18 October – 25 October 2015 | Prof Jon Dowling | Louisiana State University, USA |
| 12 July – 25 July 2015 | Prof Jon Dowling | Louisiana State University, USA |
| 15 April 2016 - 15 Dec 2017 | Mr Nathan McMahon | University of Queensland, AUS |
| 4-10 April & 1-12 July 2015 | Prof Rob Mann | University of Waterloo Canada |
Alumni
Post-docs
| Name | Area of expertise |
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| Ramil Nigmatullin |
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| Yuval Sanders |
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Students
| Name | Thesis title | Year of completion |
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| Babatunde Ayeni | Studies of braided non-abelian anyons using anyonic tensor networks | PhD 2017 |
| Matthew Van Breugel | Exploring coherence properties and collective effects in nanodiamonds containing color centers | PhD 2019 |
| Blay Daniel | An integrated Raman-free photon source | MRes 2015 |
| Bradach Carlo | The properties of nitrogen-vacancy centres in nanodiamond | PhD 2012 |
| Brodutch Aharon | Locality and the flow of quantum information | PhD 2012 |
| Buese Alexander | Quantum control and measurments of plasmonic nanostructures | PhD 2016 |
| Chaboyer Zachary | Reconfigurable laser-written photonic circuits for non-classical optics | PhD 2017 |
| Cirio Mauro | Engineered quantum systems: magnetomechanics, quantum algorithms for statistical systems, and emergent many body phenomena | PhD 2014 |
| Conquest Oliver | Nano-scale Raman Thermometry of Diamond. | MRES 2018 |
| Connor Steward | Instrument Characterisation for Optical Activity Measurements in the Non-Paraxial Regime | MRes 2018 |
| Delanty Michael | Collective effects in engineered quantum systems | PhD 2012 |
| Demarie Tomasso | Geometrical and Topological Aspects of Quantum Information systems | PhD 2014 |
| Dinani Hossein | Quantum phase estimation in noisy systems | PhD 2016 |
| Stephen Dunn | Brownian Motion of Magnetically Microsystems in Vacuum | MRES 2017 |
| Facer Chris | Quantum master equations: classical noise, coarse graining , and heat exchange | PhD 2014 |
| Fernandez-Corbaton Ivan | Helicity and duality symmetry in light matter interactions: Theory and applications | PhD 2012 |
| Fraser Brandon | Quantum Cellular Automata | BSc. Honours 2007 |
| Freckleton J. | A Multiparty Quantum Parrondo Game With Applications to Secure Computation | BSc. Honours 2007 |
| Geordy Jemy | Bayesian estimation of blinking in nano-diamond color centres | MRES 2019 |
| Gleeson Rhiannon | Light propagation in "slow light" moving media: a playground for exploring relativistic analogies in the laboratory | BSc. Honours 2008 |
| Guff Thomas | Quantum thermodynamics and quantum measurements | PhD 2019 |
| Hagan Bryte | Discretising Quantum Field Theory with Wavelets | MRES 2018 |
| Helt Luke | Theoretical Integrated Quantum Optics | Postdoc 2017 |
| Inam Faraz | Fundamental characterisation of nanodiamond NV centre spontaneous emission | PhD 2014 |
| Javaherian Clara | Quantum transport and switching in long-ranged coupled quantum systems | PhD 2016 |
| Matthew Joliffe | Many body physics with coloured centred diamonds | PhD 2019 |
| Maria Kieferova | Quantum Optimization | PhD 2019 |
| Lehman Lauri | Statistical effects in anyonic quantum walks | PhD 2013 |
| Linjordet Trond | Adiabatic transition from cluster state to surface code | MS 2013 |
| Lombardo Daniel | Hybrid Quantum Systems in Cavity QED and Optomechanics | MRES 2015 |
| Meany Thomas | Laser written integrated photonics for quantum information science | PhD 2014 |
| McMahon Nathan | PhD 2018 | |
| Motes Keith | Routes Towards Optical Quantum Technology - New Architectures and Applications | PhD 2016 |
| Muhieddine Omar | A room-temperature diamond maser | MRES 2020 |
| Nabomita Roy Mukty | Super absorption of light in spin ensembles | MRES 2018 |
| Nagle Ian | Quantum Information and Gravity | PhD 2020 |
| Paz-Silva Gerardo | On quantum computing with reduced requirements | PhD 2011 |
| Joannes Piotrowski | Towards quantum aspects of Brillouin scattering in integrated nanoscale optical waveguides | MRES 2018 |
| Reece Roberts | Resonant dipole forces in optical levitation | PhD 2018 |
| Said Ressa | Quantum Information Processing Tasks and Applications in Diamond | PhD 2011 |
| Schoenfeldt Johann | Control and Engineering of Optical Nonlinearilities in Multi-Level Quantum Systems | PhD 2011 |
| Smith Alexander | Detectors, Reference Frames, and Time | PhD 2018 |
| Tabacchini Andrea | Experimental implementations of multidimensional multi-photon states | PhD 2017 |
| Tessler Louis | A Quantum Algorithm for time-dependent Partial Differential Equations | MRES 2020 |
| Tischler Nora | Towards quantum metrology for nanoscatterers | PhD 2016 |
| Wood Chris | Non-completely positive maps: properties and applications | BSc. Honours 2008 |
| Wood Andrew | Exploring the Physics of Mechanically Tunable Microcavity Polaritons | PhD 2019 |