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My work is focussed on the application of atomic, laser, and quantum techniques to precision measurement. At Strathclyde this falls under a number of different themes; atomic clocks, atom interferometry, atomic magnetometry, space quantum technologies, and scattering in ocean optics.

I studied for a BSc Physics from the University of Limerick before receiving my PhD in 2005 from Durham University. I went on to become a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, from 2005-2007, after which I came to the University of Strathclyde to work in what was then the Photonics Group. I held a five-year Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship starting in 2009. From 2010-2011 I was a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, funded by an award from Marie Curie. In 2015 I was awarded a Chancellor’s Fellowship at Strathclyde.

Jobs!

PhD and postdoc positions in fundamental and applied research in atomic physics and quantum mechanics become available through the year. Please contact me directly for more information.

Publications
    A. Abdalla, M. Abe, S. Abend, M. Abidi, M. Aidelsburger, A. Alibabaei, B. Allard, J. Antoniadis, G. Arduini, N. Augst, P. Balamatsias, A. Balaž, H. Banks, R. L. Barcklay, M. Barone, M. Barsanti, M. G. Bason, A. Bassi, J. Bayle, C. F. A. Baynham, Q. Beaufils, S. Beldjoudi, A. Belić, S. Bennetts, J. Bernabeu, A. Bertoldi, C. Bigard, N. P. Bigelow, R. Bingham, D. Blas, A. Bobrick, S. Boehringer, A. B. ́. K. Bongs, D. Bortoletto, P. Bouyer, C. Brand, O. Buchmueller, G. Buica, S. Calatroni, L. Calmels, P. Canizares, B. Canuel, A. Caramete, L. Caramete, M. Carlesso, J. Carlton, S. P. Carman, A. Carroll, M. Casariego, M. Chairetis, V. Charmandaris, U. Chauhan, J. Chen, M. L. Chiofalo, D. Ciampini, A. Cimbri, P. Cladé, J. Coleman, F. L. Constantin, C. R. Contaldi, R. Corgier, B. Dash, G. J. Davies, C. de Rham, A. De Roeck, D. Derr, S. Dey, F. Di Pumpo, G. S. Djordjevic, B. Döbrich, P. Dornan, M. Doser, G. Drougakis, J. Dunningham, A. Duspayev, S. Easo, J. Eby, M. Efremov, G. Elertas, J. Ellis, N. Entin, S. Fairhurst, M. Fanì, F. Fassi, P. Fayet, D. Felea, J. Feng, R. Flack, C. Foot, T. Freegarde, E. Fuchs, N. Gaaloul, D. Gao, S. Gardner, B. M. Garraway, C. L. Garrido Alzar, A. Gauguet, E. Giese, P. Gill, G. F. Giudice, E. P. Glasbrenner, J. Glick, P. W. Graham, E. Granados, P. F. Griffin, J. Gué, S. Guellati-Khelifa, S. Gupta, V. Gupta, L. Hackermueller, M. Haehnelt, T. Hakulinen, K. Hammerer, E. T. Hanımeli, T. Harte, S. Hartmann, L. Hawkins, A. Hees, A. Herbst, T. M. Hird, R. Hobson, J. Hogan, B. Holst, M. Holynski, O. Hosten, C. C. Hsu, W. C. Huang, K. M. Hughes, K. Hussain, G. Hütsi, A. Iovino, M. Isfan, G. Janson, P. Jeglič, P. Jetzer, Y. Jiang, G. Juzeliūnas, W. Kaenders, M. Kalliokoski, A. Kehagias, E. Kilian, C. Klempt, P. Knight, S. Koley, B. Konrad, T. Kovachy, M. Krutzik, M. Kumar, P. Kumar, H. Labiad, S. Lan, A. Landragin, G. Landsberg, M. Langlois, B. Lanigan, B. Leone, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, S. Lellouch, M. Lewicki, Y. Lien, L. Lombriser, E. L. Asamar, J. L. Lopez-Gonzalez, C. Lu, G. G. Luciano, N. Lundblad, C. de J. López Monjaraz, A. Lowe, M. Mackoit-Sinkevičienė, M. Maggiore, A. Majumdar, K. Makris, A. Maleknejad, A. L. Marchant, A. Mariotti, C. Markou, B. Matthews, A. Mazumdar, C. McCabe, M. Meister, G. Mentasti, J. Menu, G. Messineo, B. Meyer-Hoppe, S. Micalizio, F. Migliaccio, P. Millington, M. Milosevic, A. Mishra, J. Mitchell, G. W. Morley, N. Mouelle, J. Müller, D. Newbold, W. Ni, C. Niehof, J. Noller, S. Odžak, D. K. L. Oi, A. Oikonomou, Y. Omar, C. Overstreet, V. P. Veettil, J. Pahl, S. Paling, Z. Pan, G. Pappas, V. Pareek, E. Pasatembou, M. Paternostro, V. K. Pathak, E. Pelucchi, F. P. d. Santos, A. Peters, A. Pichery, I. Pikovski, A. Pilaftsis, F. Pislan, R. Plunkett, R. Poggiani, M. Prevedelli, J. Rafelski, J. Raidal, M. Raidal, E. M. Rasel, S. Renaux-Petel, A. Richaud, P. Rivero-Antunez, T. Rodzinka, A. Roura, J. Rudolph, D. Sabulsky, M. S. Safronova, M. Sakellariadou, L. Salvi, M. Sameed, S. Sarkar, P. Schach, S. A. Schäffer, J. Schelfhout, M. Schilling, V. Schkolnik, W. P. Schleich, D. Schlippert, U. Schneider, F. Schreck, A. Schwartzman, N. Schwersenz, O. Sergijenko, H. R. Sfar, L. Shao, I. Shipsey, J. Shu, Y. Singh, C. F. Sopuerta, M. Sorba, F. Sorrentino, A. D. A. M. Spallicci, P. Stefanescu, N. Stergioulas, D. Stoerk, H. T. Sunilkumar, J. Ströhle, Z. Tam, D. Tandon, Y. Tang, D. Tell, J. Tempere, D. J. Temples, R. P. Thampy, I. C. Tietje, G. M. Tino, J. N. Tinsley, O. T. Mircea, K. Tkalčec, A. J. Tolley, V. Tornatore, A. Torres-Orjuela, P. Treutlein, A. Trombettoni, C. Ufrecht, J. Urrutia, T. Valenzuela, L. R. Valerio, M. van der Grinten, V. Vaskonen, V. Vázquez-Aceves, H. Veermäe, F. Vetrano, N. V. Vitanov, W. von Klitzing, S. Wald, T. Walker, R. Walser, J. Wang, Y. Wang, C. A. Weidner, A. Wenzlawski, M. Werner, L. Wörner, M. E. Yahia, E. Yazgan, E. Z. Cruzeiro, M. Zarei, M. Zhan, S. Zhang, L. Zhou, E. Zupanič, Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry: summary of the second workshop. EPJ Quantum Technology 12, (2025).

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    H. Heine, A. S. Arnold, M. S. Le Gonidec, P. F. Griffin, E. Riis, W. Herr, E. M. Rasel, A compact high-flux grating chip cold atom source. New Journal of Physics 27, (2025).

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    A. Bregazzi, J. P. McGilligan, P. F. Griffin, E. Riis, A. S. Arnold, Single-beam grating-chip 3D and 1D optical lattices. Physical Review Letters 134, (2025).

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    J. Januszewicz, E. Di Gaetano, Z. McConkey, M. Sinclair, U. Hawley, S. Dyer, J. McGilligan, P. F. Griffin, E. Riis, M. Sorel, D. J. Paul, K. Gallacher, Optical phased array for sub-Doppler spectroscopy of the rubidium D2 absorption line. 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) 1–2 (2024).

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    A. P. McWilliam, S. Dyer, D. Hunter, M. Mrozowski, S. J. Ingleby, O. Sharp, D. P. Burt, P. F. Griffin, J. P. McGilligan, E. Riis, Optimizing longitudinal spin relaxation in miniaturized optically pumped magnetometers. Physical Review Applied 22, (2024).

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    M. S. Mrozowski, A. S. Bell, P. F. Griffin, D. Hunter, D. Burt, J. P. McGilligan, E. Riis, C. D. Beggan, S. J. Ingleby, Distributed network of optically pumped magnetometers for space weather monitoring. Scientific Reports 14, 28229 (2024).

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    E. Di Gaetano, B. Keliehor, K. Gallacher, P. F. Griffin, M. Sorel, E. Riis, D. J. Paul, 778.1 nm distributed feedback lasers for Rb two-photon atomic systems with sub-4 kHz linewidths. APL Photonics 9, 056114 (2024).

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    H. Heine, M. S. L. Gonidec, A. S. Arnold, P. F. Griffin, E. Riis, W. Herr, E. M. Rasel, A high-flux cold-atom source utilising a grating atom chip. Arxiv (2024).

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    R. Dawson, M. S. Mrozowski, D. Hunter, C. O'Dwyer, E. Riis, P. F. Griffin, S. Ingleby, A triaxial vectorization technique for a single-beam zero-field atomic magnetometer to suppress cross-axis projection error. Arxiv (2024).

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    A. P. McWilliam, S. Dyer, D. Hunter, M. Mrozowski, S. J. Ingleby, O. Sharp, D. P. Burt, P. F. Griffin, J. P. McGilligan, E. Riis, Longitudinal spin-relaxation optimization for miniaturized optically pumped magnetometers. Arxiv (2024).

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