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Professor Mete Atatüre

Head of Department,  Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Mete Atatüre is a Professor of Physics and the Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. He completed his PhD at Boston University in 2002 and then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich. He joined the Cavendish Laboratory in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and received his full Professorship in 2015. His research efforts straddle multiple material platforms to investigate spin-photon interfaces for quantum networks and quantum sensing. He is Founding Scientific Advisor of Nu Quantum Ltd. developing quantum network solutions. He is a Fellow of Optica, Academia Europaea, Institute of Physics, and Science Academy Turkey. He was awarded the IoP Thomas Young Medal and Prize in 2020 and the Koc Medal of Science in 2024 for his contributions in quantum technologies.

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