Team

Group hike to Le Moléson 2022

Group hike to Niesen 2020

Professor Richard J. Warburton
Group Leader
Email: richard.warburton@unibas.ch
Office: 3.22
Phone: +41 61 207 3560
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Semiconductor-based quantum optics
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Diamond photonics
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Superconductors for single photon detection
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2010-present Professor
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2000-2010 Lectuer/Reader/Professor
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland -
1996-1999 Assistant Professor
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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1993-1996 Humboldt and Marie-Curie Fellow
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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1990-1993 Junior Research Fellow
Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK -
1991 MA, DPhil University of Oxford
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1987-1991 Graduate Student
Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK
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1984-1987 BA Physics
St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, UK

Dr Andreas V. Kuhlmann
Post-doc
Email: andreas.kuhlmann@unibas.ch
Office: 5.16 (Physical Chemistry Building)
Phone: +41 61 207 66 90
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Spin Qubits in silicon FinFETs
- Georg H. Endress Postdoc Fellow
- PhD University of Basel

Dr Yannik Laurent Fontana
Post-Doc
Email: yanniklaurent.fontana@unibas.ch
Office: 3.25a
Phone: +41 61 207 38 66
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Spin Qubit in a microcavity
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Quantum defects in diamond
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2020-present Post-doc
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2019-2020 PostDoc
Quantum Physics and Information Technology group, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark -
2015-2019 PostDoc (SNSF Fellow)
Childress Group, McGill University, Canada -
2011-2015 Ph.D. Physics
EPF Lausanne, Switzerland -
2010-2011 M.Sc. Materials Science (Biomaterials & Materials for electrical and electronically engineering
Specialization in Biomaterials & Materials for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland -
2008-2010 B.Sc. Material Science & Engineering
EPF Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr Mark Hogg
Post-Doc
Email: mark.hogg@unibas.ch
Office: 5.16 (Physical Chemistry Building)
Phone: +41 61 207 66 90
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Spin manipulation
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Quantum dot cavity-QED
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Photon cluster states
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2021-present Post-doc
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2016-2020 Ph.D. Physics
Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technologies, University of New South Wales, Australia -
2014-2016 Radio-Frequency Engineer
Times-7 Research Ltd., New Zealand -
2012-2014 M.Sc. Physics
University of Otago, New Zealand -
2008-2011 B.Sc. Physics
University of Otago, New Zealand

Dr Rafael Sebastian Eggli
Post-Doc student
Email: rafael.eggli@unibas.ch
Office: 5.16 (Physical Chemistry Building)
Phone: +41 61 207 66 90
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Hole Spin Qubits in Silicon FinFETs and Ge/Si Nanowires
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Gate-Dispersive Spin and Charge Readout
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2025-present Post-Doc student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland
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2023 Visiting PhD student
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia -
2021-2025 PhD student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2019-2021 M.Sc. Physics
University of Basel, Switzerland -
2016-2019 B.Sc. Physics
University of Basel, Switzerland

Andrea Corazza
PhD student
Email: andrea.corazza@unibas.ch
Office: 3.05
Phone: +41 61 207 37 64
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Solid-state Spin Qubits in a microcavity
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Diamond quantum photonics
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2021-present PhD Student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2017-2020 M.Sc. Materials Science
University of Padova, Italy -
2018-2019 Erasmus Student in Physics
Aarhus University, Denmark -
2017-2020 B.Sc. Materials Science
University of Padova, Italy

Malwina Anna Marczak
PhD student
Email: malwina.marczak@unibas.ch
Office: 3.25a
Phone: +41 61 207 38 66
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Quantum dots in microcavities
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2022 – present PhD student
Department of Physics , University of Basel -
2019 – 2022 M.Sc. Chemistry
ETH Zürich, Switzerland -
2016-2019 – 2019 B.Sc. Chemistry
University of Warsaw, Poland

Rahel Kaiser
PhD student
Email: rahel.kaiser@unibas.ch
Office: 3.25
Phone: +41 61 207 38 66
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Optical spectroscopy of 2D materials
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Ferromagnetism in 2D materials
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2022-present PhD student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2020-2022 M.Sc. Nanoscience
University of Basel, Switzerland -
2015-2020 B.Sc. Nanoscience
University of Basel, Switzerland

Timon Luca Baltisberger
PhD student
Email: timon.baltisberger@unibas.ch
Office: 3.25
Phone: +41 61 207 38 66
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Quantum dots in microcavities
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2023-present PhD student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2021-2022 M.Sc. Nanoscience
University of Basel, Switzerland -
2017-2020 B.Sc. Nanoscience
University of Basel, Switzerland

Lukas Leander Niekamp
PhD student
Email: lukas.niekamp@unibas.ch
Office: 3.25
Phone: +41 61 207 38 66
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GaAs quantum dots
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Quantum dots in microcavities
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Single photon sources
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2023-present PhD student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2020-2023 M.Sc. Condensed Matter Physics
TU Munich, Germany -
2019-2020 Master 1st year Physics
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France -
2016-2019 B.Sc. Physics
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Marina Obramenko
PhD Student
Email: marina.obramenko@unibas.ch
Office: 3.18
Phone: +41 61 207 37 64
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A diamond-based spin-photon interface
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2024 – present PhD student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2023 – 2024 M.Sc. Physics
University of Basel, Switzerland -
2020-2022 Laboratory assistant, Department of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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2018-2022 B.Sc. Technical physics, specialization “Nanophotonics and optoelectronics”,
Department of Physics and Engineering , ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Clotilde Marie Nathalie Pillot
PhD Student
Email: clotilde.pillot@unibas.ch
Office: 3.25
Phone: +41 61 207 38 66
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A quantum dot in a microcavity
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ML for metasurface design optimization
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2024 – present PhD student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2023 – 2024 Research scientist
IOF Fraunhofer, Jena, Germany -
2022-2023 Erasmus at the Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena;
Master’s thesis at IOF Fraunhofer, Jena, Germany -
2021-2022 Gap year in Sweden, Optical engineering position at Eclise Optics, Stockholm, Sweden
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2019-2021 Student at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France

Bianca Seyschab
PhD Student
Email:bianca.seyschab@unibas.ch
Office: 3.25
Phone: +41 61 207 38 66
Semiconductor Quantum Dots
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2025 – present PhD student
Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland -
2021-2024 M.Sc. Condensed Matter Physics
TU Munich, Germany -
2022-2023: Erasmus Student in Physics
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland -
2018-2022 B.Sc. Physics
TU Munich, Germany
Alumni
Postdocs
Alisa Javadi
Tomasz A. Jakubczyk
Benjamin Petrak
Immo Söllner
Guillaume Froehlicher
Sebastian Starosielec
Mathieu Munsch
Arne Ludwig
PhDs
Rafael Eggli
Giang Nam Ba Nguyen
Marcel Erbe
Nadia Antoniadis
Simon Geyer
Clemens Spinnler
Lukas Sponfeldner
Viktoria Yurgens
Liang Zhai
Natasha Tomm
Nadine Leisgang
Sigurd Flågan
Matthias C. Löbl
Jonas G. Roch
Daniel Najer
Jan-Philipp Jahn
Daniel Riedel
Timo Kaldewey
Lukas Greuter
Jonathan H. Prechtel
Gunter Wüst