Co-Investigators
Professor Ravinder Dahiya is Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and an EPSRC Engineering Fellow (EP/M002527/1) at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on developing advanced large area flexible tactile skin enabled by the printing of silicon nanowires. He has an excellent track record of attracting large scale funding (>£8.5M as PI) and is a world-leading expert on flexible electronics, electronic skin and its application in robotics, prosthetics and wearable systems for healthcare. These capabilities are particularly relevant to WP4.
Professor Richard Winpenny is Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He is a world-leader in the synthesis of polymetallic cage complexes and currently holds an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship (Jan 2018 - Dec 2022) and an ERC Advanced Fellowship (Sept 2018 - Aug 2022). In 2009, he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2009 and has won the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Tilden and Ludwig Mond Prizes (2011 and 2016 respectively) for his work in molecular magnetism. He has developed heterometallic rings (HRs) as a new class of molecular magnet, which have been exploited to develop new physics and techniques with proposals to use them in quantum information processing. These HRs and assemblies of the HRs show unique capability as resist materials for electron beam lithography (EBL) and bring essential capability to WP1.
Dr Michael Strain is a Senior Lecturer in Physics and an early career researcher at the University of Strathclyde in the Institute of Photonics. His interests in integrated photonics span III-V semiconductors and silicon with a particular expertise in microfabrication. He has extended his activities to the hybrid integration of optical systems using µ-TP (EP/P013570/1 and EP/N00762X/1). Early results on high accuracy placement techniques and integration of nanoscale optical devices will directly benefit WP2. Michael is also PI on two Phase II Partnership Resource Fund projects under the QT Hub (EP/M01326X/1), with a focus on technology transfer into industry.
Dr Ian Watson is a Research Team Leader at the University of Strathclyde in the Institute of Photonics. He has a background in materials chemistry and semiconductor devices, and has held 12 previous EPSRC grants, plus EU funding under the projects STIMSCAT and CLERMONT2. Ian directs the cleanroom facility at the University of Strathclyde, which will provide crucial facilities for the delivery of inorganic device fabrication and will host the µ-TP instrument. Ian’s expertise at the interface of chemistry, materials and semiconductor device technology is particularly valuable in co-ordinating efforts between the inter-disciplinary teams and across WPs.
Professor Rob Martin is Professor of Experimental Physics & Vice Dean (Research) at the University of Strathclyde and will act as director of post-graduate research activities in Hetero-Print. Rob is an internationally recognised research leader in III-nitrides and hybrid devices. He has held 14 EPSRC and 4 EU grants, including Programme, Platform and Fellowship. He is PI on a £2.7M strategic equipment award for nanoanalysis and has been PI on successful collaborative grants on III-nitride LEDs, solar cell materials, VCSELs and nanostructures, bringing strong expertise in mechanistic, microstructural and spectroscopic analysis to WPs 1 and 3. In addition, he chairs the Steering Committee of the EPSRC National Epitaxy Facility (since 2010).
Professor David Wallis is Professor of Compound Semiconductors Cardiff University School of Engineering, as well as retaining a joint appointment at the University of Cambridge in the Centre for Gallium Nitride. He is an expert in compound semiconductor manufacturing (EP/R01146X/1, EP/P03036X/1, EP/P00945X/1) and, as well as contributing to the delivery of the research programme, David ensures close connections to the emerging Cardiff Compound Semiconductor Cluster.
Dr Kris Groom is a Lecturer in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He was appointed on completion of his Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship “Advanced Semiconductor Laser Engineering” (2005-10) and has led 4 EPSRC projects as PI (incl. the manufacturing-focused EP/L017016/1), as well as being Co-I on 5 further projects. Kris was selected as a founder member of the EPSRC Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research (2012-14).
Professor Maurice Skolnick FRS is Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Sheffield. He is one of the UK’s foremost quantum scientists. His principal research interests are in the physics of coupled light-matter systems and quantum optical circuits based on semiconductor quantum dots, where he has led 3 successive EPSRC programme grants. He brings strong scientific input and leadership to WP3 and WP4 in demonstrating the advantage of µ-TP in quantum technology development.