The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diamond Science and Technology welcomes the University of Bath. Bath joins Aberystwyth University, Cardiff University, Imperial College London, Newcastle University, the University of Bristol, the University of Oxford, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Warwick as one of the Centre’s partner universities.

The first Diamond Science and Technology student will commence their PhD in the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials at the University of Bath in 2018, under the supervision of Dr Joshua Nunn.

CDT Director, Professor Mark Newton, said “We are delighted that Josh Nunn has been awarded a Lectureship in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath and will be contributing to research in Bath Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials. There many synergies between work carried out in this Centre and the cutting edge work of DST CDT students in the broad area of diamond photonics and quantum technologies. There are many exciting opportunities for new collaborations.”

Dr Joshua Nunn

Joshua Nunn obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2009 where he stayed as a departmental lecturer until 2013. After a visiting fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada, he returned to Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow working on coherent light-matter interactions and optical storage in crystals and atomic vapours for applications in photonic quantum information processing, communications and metrology. He is now a Reader in Photonics at the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials at the University of Bath, and runs the Photonics workpackage of the EPSRC Networked Quantum Information Technologies Hub.