Staff information
Dr Mauro Paternostro
Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physicsemail: m.paternostro@qub.ac.uk
Tel: 028 9097 6073
Fax: 028 9097 6061
Room DBB 0G.036
Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
Queen's University Belfast
University Road
Belfast BT7 1NN
My research covers the areas of Quantum Optics, Quantum Information
Processing and open Many-Body Quantum Physics. I am interested in
proposing criteria for inducing and revealing mesoscopic/macroscopic
quantumness and designing experimentally viable strategies for coherent
dynamics at the quantum level.
I received my Ph.D. from Queen's University and graduated in Theoretical
Physics from the University of Palermo (Italy). I am a University Reader
in Quantum Information and a UK EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow
(2008-20014). In 2012, I have been identified as one of the UK EPSRC
Research Leaders. Awards include an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for
Senior Researchers and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research
Fellowship. So far, I have attracted about 1M euros in research funding.
My work on cavity optomechanics has been deemed a milestone in the
development of Quantum Optics since the formulation of Maxwell equations.
I was principal investigator of two bilateral UK-Italy projects funded by
The British Council and co-investigator in an EPSRC research grant. I have
co-organised an EPSRC-funded meeting in Northern Ireland (2006), a
workshop in Seoul (South Korea, November 2011) and I am one of the
organizers of the EPSRC-funded QuAMP 2012 summer school (Belfast,
September 2012).
