I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Birmingham (UK). As head of the Theory and Digital Twinning for Quantum Technologies group, I am leading a theoretical research programme focused on advancing the deployment of quantum technologies in real-life application settings. 

My work spans fundamental research, through developing new theoretical concepts to enhance the capabilities of quantum sensors, and applied research, through creating bespoke models and simulation tools, including pioneering digital twins of quantum devices, to support their real-world deployment in areas such as navigation, civil engineering, space and fundamental physics. 

My team is collaborating closely with lab- and field-based experiments at different maturity levels within the UK National Quantum Hub for Sensing, Imaging and Timing, and beyond with quantum physicists, engineers and industrial partners to accelerate the uptake of the most disruptive ideas from quantum theory in real-life practical applications.

With a grant portfolio >£1m as lead investigator (>£25m as co-I), I have active industrial collaborations with key stakeholders including Thales, MBDA, BAE Systems and am actively engaged in several of the main international endeavours in the field of atom interferometry, including AION, AEDGE, ELGAR, STE-QUEST and TVLBAI. 

I graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) both as a theoretical quantum physicist and an engineer, and obtained my PhD in 2014 in Alain Aspect’s group at the Institut d’Optique (Paris), working on disordered many-body ultracold quantum gases.