QUEENPROGRAMME - Key Persons


Andrew Briggs

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Nanomaterials
Andrew Briggs Professor of Nanomaterials is director of the QuEEN programme, giving technical leadership on materials and techniques for quantum control. He developed quantum control for spins in molecules and has used these spins for experimental tests of quantum foundations.

Colin Lambert

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor, Qineti
Colin Lambert Research Professor, QinetiQ Fellow and Founding Director of the Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre, contributes ‘whole systems' theoretical studies of molecular electronic devices. He co-created the internationally recognised SMEAGOL and GOLLUM codes.

Daniel Esteve

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Research Director, CEA Saclay

Harry Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry
Harry Anderson Professor of Chemistry, contributes expertise on the synthesis of electronically delocalised π-systems, and non- covalent interactions at molecule/electrode interfaces. He has developed short porphyrin-based oligomers and light-harvesting nano rings the size of proteins.

Heike Riel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Head of Materials Integration and Nanoscale Electronics, IBM Research, Zurich

Hermann Hauser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Jan Mol

Jan Mol RAEng Research Fellow, contributes expertise on measurement of quantum transport in atomic- and molecular-scale systems. He leads on device fabrication and measurement, and assists Andrew Briggs with operational management of the QuEEN programme.

Jeremy Burroughes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Chief Technical Officer, Cambridge Display Technology

Klaus Müllen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Director, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz

Lapo Bogani

Lapo Bogani Royal Society URF, provides expertise on spintronics and molecular magnetic systems. He has been instrumental in the development of molecular spintronics, and is best known for his contributions to the design and understanding of molecular magnetic materials.

Tim Cook

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Co - Director Networked Quantum Information Technologies Hub

Tim Spiller

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor of Quantum Information Technologies, University of York

Vishal Chatrath

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Co - Founder and CEO, PROWLER.Io