QET Labs' Dr Siddarth Joshi has been appointed as a Lecturer in Optical Communications, starting from 1 November. We wish Siddarth the best of luck as he starts this new role.

Siddarth continues his research at QET Labs, where he works on quantum communication, an encryption technique that is based on immutable and fundamental laws of physics to ensure that malicious decryption is impossible no matter how powerful a computer a hacker uses. The focus of his group is to bring these technologies out of the lab and into the real world. To this end the group is working on building small satellites (small enough to hold in your hand) for global scale quantum communication, long distance fibre optic based quantum communication for terrestrial links and many user large and complex quantum networks to create the quantum internet.

The Joshi group also works on quantum metrology (the science of measurements) and use the fascinating properties of quantum physics to make measurements more precise or even to be able to take images at one wavelength without ever detecting light at that wavelength.

You can read more about the Joshi group at our research page.