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Prof Ifan Hughes

Professor

BSc, ARCS, DPhil., C.Phys, MInstP, FLSW


Affiliations
AffiliationRoom numberTelephone
Professor in the Department of Physics112+44 (0) 191 33 43606
Member of Quantum Light and Matter  

Biography

Responsibilities within department

Chair of the Laboratories Committee; Member of the Scholarship and Prizes committee; Member of the Facilities Committee; Member of the Education Committee; Member of the Staff-Student Consultative Committee.

Teaching activity

Chair of the Laboratories Committee; Level 1 Discovery Skills Errors Lectures; Level 2 Laboratory Skills co-ordinator;
Level 4 course Atoms, photons and qubits (APQ); Level 4 MPhys projects; Graduate Course on Data Analysis.

Research interests

I am an experimental physicist with two main thrusts to my work – the physics of ultracold atoms, and atom-light interactions with thermal ensembles.

Research groups

  • Quantum Light and Matter

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Awarded Grants

  • 2017: Atom-Based Quantum Photonics(£1276337.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
  • 2014: Scientific Properties of Complex Knots(£337854.00 from Leverhulme Trust)
  • 2014: Scientific Properties of Complex Knots(£337854.00 from Leverhulme Trust)
  • 2014: Scientific Properties of Complex Knots(£337854.00 from Leverhulme Trust)

Publications

Authored book

  • Adams, C S & Hughes, I G (2018). Optics f2f From Fourier to Fresnel. OUP.
  • Hughes, Ifan & Hase, Tom (2010). Measurements and their Uncertainties A practical guide to modern error analysis. OUP.

Journal Article

Supervision students