Biography
Dorian Gangloff is an Engineering Physics graduate from the University of British Columbia (BASc 2010). In 2016, he received a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a focus on Atomic and Optical Physics. As a graduate student, he and colleagues demonstrated the first-ever use of an optical lattice combined with an atomic trapped-ion crystal as a simulator of nanofrictional processes, work which earned him a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge, in 2017. There, he has worked at the Cavendish Laboratory on coherent interfaces between solid-state qubits and easily transmissible photonic states. These are foundational components of quantum networking technologies and offer the opportunity to investigate fundamental quantum optical phenomena.
His recent work on all-optical control of two leading solid-state platforms – quantum dots and diamond colour centers – has had significant impact on spin-based quantum technologies and fundamental many-body physics. He was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in October 2021, and joined the Engineering Science department as an Associate Professor in January 2022.
Research Interests
Dr Gangloff's general research interests are in the field of quantum science and engineering. In particular, he works on interfaces between spin and photonic quantum bits in solid-state systems, and on leveraging many-body phenomena in spin ensembles for quantum information tasks. In 2021, he was awarded a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society to develop nuclear-spin-based quantum memories for optical quantum networks.
Research Groups
Current Projects
- Quantum networks: memory unit with nuclear spins in quantum dots
- Quantum optics: entangled states of light with solid-state spins
- Quantum simulators: theory and applications of controlled many-body phases in spin ensembles
- Quantum computers: Rydberg excitonics for computation and quantum nonlinear optics
DPhil Opportunities
Always looking for talented students and postdocs to join the team. Please contact me directly to discuss opportunities. Funded studentship opportunities.
