Professor Paul Griffin
Physics
Personal statement
Paul Griffin is a Professor in the Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics group at the 糖心视频, where he holds the Judith and Harold Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Sensing. At Strathclyde he leads research activities in atomic clocks, atom interferometry, optically-pumped magnetometers, studies of laser-cooled atoms and atomic Bose鈥揈instein condensates, cold atom platforms as an enabling technology, and the development of space quantum technologies.
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Paul has been active throughout the UK鈥檚 quantum technology programme, and and was funded through the QT Hub in Sensors and Measurement/Timing through the first two phases of the UKNQTP. In the third phase he is a partner in two hubs: , and . Within QEPNT he is co-lead for the workpackage on atomic clocks. He is also a work package leader in the EPSRC programme grant 鈥淐hip-scale Atomic Systems for a Quantum Navigator,鈥� and is co-lead of the EPSRC International Network on Space Quantum Technologies. He has extensive experience of knowledge exchange and technology transfer.
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Paul Griffin received a BSc in Applied Physics from the University of Limerick in 2001, a PhD from Durham University in 2005 for investigations of atoms trapped in far-off-resonant dipole traps, and subsequently held a postdoctoral research position at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, working on coherent control of atomic system before joining the 糖心视频 in 2008. He has held a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship and a year-long position, funded by a fellowship from Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Actions, as a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In 2015 he was awarded a Chancellor's Fellowship at Strathclyde and appointed a lecturer.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2015
- Recipient
- 2009
- Recipient
- 2009
Publications
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- Review of Scientific Instruments Vol 97 (2026)
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- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Vol 75 (2026)
- , , Cannon Rachel, Beggan Ciar谩n, Turbitt Christopher, Lyon Robert, Martyn Thomas, , ,
- Emerging Technologies and Materials for Security and Defence 2025 Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol 13678 (2025)
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- Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol 13674 (2025)
- Januszewicz J, McWilliams A P, , , , , Di Gaetano E, Sorel M, Gallacher K, Paul D J
- 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM) 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM) 2025 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), pp. 1-3 (2025)
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- 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (2025)
Teaching
I teach courses on PH184: Quantum Physics and PH304: Physics Skills.
Within PH403 I teach on Communicating Physics The motivation behind this course is to develop students鈥� ability to communicate complex information effectively and concisely. In recent years, working with the Institute of Physics, students on the course have worked in groups to produce short videos that look to explain everyday physical phenomena. These can be viewed on the at these links
I am always keen to have research project interns. If you are interested in working in my labs then please email me to start an informal discussion about how we can make it happen.
Research Interests
My research is broadly in the areas of atomic physics and quantum technologies, using lasers and atoms as probes for precision measurement and for investigating atom-light interactions. A large area of work is focussed on developing next generation devices based on quantum technologies.
The main strands of my research looks at
- Atomic Clocks
- Atom interferometry
- Optically-pumped magnetometry
- Ultra-cold atoms
- Bose-Einstein condensates
- Quantum technologies
- Space applications of quantum tech
- Developing components and sub-systems for translating lab research to application-read devices.
I am part of the Ultracold Matter & Quantum Technologies research group (previously known as Experimental Quantum Optics & Photonics, EQOP). Further details can be found in our research group webpages ->
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Professional Activities
- Invited speaker
- 24/9/2024
- Host
- 12/9/2024
- Speaker
- 18/7/2024
- Invited speaker
- 16/7/2024
- Speaker
- 18/6/2024
- Presenter
- 7/6/2024
Projects
- McGilligan, James Patrick (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) McHugh, Eamonn (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2028
- Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Pritchard, Jonathan (Co-investigator) Ward, Jeremy Stuart (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Burrow, Oliver (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2027
- Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Kendon, Vivien (Co-investigator) Pritchard, Jonathan (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2033
- Ingleby, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Heather (Co-investigator) Dyer, Terry (Co-investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Arnold, Aidan (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator)
- 13-Jan-2025 - 12-Jan-2027