Invited Speakers

Dr Kouichi Akahane
NICT, Japan

Kouichi Akahane received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees in Material Science from University of Tsukuba in 1997, 1999, and 2002, respectively. He joined the Communications Research Laboratory (known as National Institute of Information and Communications Technology from April 1, 2004,), Koganei, Tokyo in 2002. He is now the Director of Optical Access Technology Laboratory of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and is currently working on optical access network, photonics devices, and compound semiconductor crystal growth.

Talk title: Ultra-low density InAs quantum dot grown on an InP(311)B substrate via interdiffusion epitaxy

Professor Anthony Bennett
University of Cardiff, UK

After degrees in Cambridge University and Imperial College London, Prof Bennett worked at Toshiba Research Europe Limited, being promoted to Team Leader in 2014. He moved to Cardiff University in 2017, where he is now leads a team developing semiconductor optical quantum technology including single photon sources, integrated photonics and magneto-optical sensors. His research group is supported by the UK National Hub in Quantum Computing and Simulation, a 5-year EPSRC Fellowship and the Welsh Government’s Sêr Cymru programme.

Talk title: Room temperature quantum light emission from colour centres in aluminium nitride

Dr Evgeny Chekhovich
University of Sussex, UK

Dr Evgeny Chekhovich is a Senior Lecturer in Quantum Optics and Technology at the University of Sussex. Evgeny received his PhD in solid state physics in 2010. He previously worked at the University of Sheffield, where he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship between 2015-2023. Evgeny’s research interests span across fundamental semiconductor physics, quantum dynamics in many-body spin systems, and potential applications of spin magnetism in quantum technologies. His primary research direction is magnetic resonance of spin qubits in optically-active (epitaxial) semiconductor quantum dots.

Julian Wiercinski
Heriot-Watt University, UK

Julian Wiercinski received his BSc and MSc in physics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Having started his PhD 2022 with Prof Erik M Gauger at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, he is working on open quantum systems theory. His primary research interests lie in transport phenomena in strongly coupled cavity-exciton systems and cooperative effects of multiple quantum dots.

Talk title: Theory of cooperative emission from quantum dots