Quantum Sensing

John Calsamiglia has been a professor at the UAB since 2010 and head of the Theoretical Physics unit at the UAB (IiFQ-UAB) since 2015. He obtained his PhD at the Helsinki Institute of Physics. He has held postdoctoral positions at the Harvard-Smithsonian CFA & UCONN, LMU München and at the University of Innsbruck, where he was an adjunct professor until 2005 when he returned to the UAB with a Ramón y Cajal scholarship. His current research interests are in quantum statistical inference, quantum sequential analysis, and nonclassicality.

Morgan Mitchell is ICREA Professor and Head of the Atomic Quantum Optics group at ICFO since 2004. He obtained his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (1999-2000) and at the University of Toronto (2002-2004) and between those periods he taught for two years at Reed College. His research focuses on working with individual neutral atoms such as individual quantum systems, Bose-Einstein spinor condensates, and high-density atomic vapours as extreme sensors, and he has invented various resonant entwined and compressed light sources of atoms. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2011, an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2016, and has been recognized with the Vanguard of Science Award in 2012.

Michael Tayler is a La Caixa “Junior Leader” postdoctoral fellow in the Atomic Quantum Optics group at ICFO. He obtained his PhD at the University of Southampton in 2012. Afterwards, he did postdoctoral stays at Radboud Nijmegen University, in the physics department of UC Berkeley (2014-2016, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship) and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge (from 2016 to 2018). His field of research is the physics of atomic and nuclear magnetic systems and their application in the development of new measurement techniques. His research focuses on high-resolution NMR spectroscopy optically detected in low magnetic fields using atomic magnetometers, ultra-compact optical-atomic magnetometers.

Teodor Parella has been head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Unit (SeRMN) at the UAB since 2008 (between 1993 and 2008 he was technical director). He obtained his PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1993. He has actively participated in the installation, implementation and development of all existing equipment at the SeRMN-UAB during the last 30 years, which include high resolution multidimensional NMR in solution conditions, solid-state NMR, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and hyperpolarization techniques using dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization. His research focuses on the development of the theory and practical applications of NMR in different fields of science, mainly in approaches related to chemistry.