Meet the Team

From left, Joshua Coop, Yingshi Duo, Vivek Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Mandun Fu and Akin Turkkokmaz

Sanjeev Kumar

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Assoc Professor of Quantum Technologies

Joshua Coop

Hi, I’m a British, fourth year PhD student native to London. I previously achieved my MEng from the university of Bristol in Electronic and Electrical engineering. My final year individual project focused on utilising group theory to simplify the DFT calculations for tertiary and quaternary GaAs compounds. I highly enjoyed it and moved towards a physics PhD because I find exploring the intrinsic properties of the world fascinating. Over my 3 year tenure I have been heavily involved in device fabrication and subsequent measurement, and enjoy challenging myself to improve my capabilities.

Vivek Kumar

I joined the Quantum Engineering Laboratory as a Research Fellow in September 2023. My research interest is on correlation effects in one-dimensional (1D) quantum systems, in particular, the formation of Wigner crystals, fractional quantum states and interference effects in Aharonov-Bohm rings.

Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich from 2019 to 2023. My postdoctoral research focused on the strongly correlated electron systems and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of cubic-chiral magnets. I completed my PhD in 2019 at the Technical University Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Germany. My PhD thesis focused on non-collinear magnetic structures, such as antiskyrmions, and their study using magnetotransport experiments.

Mandun Fu

I joined the quantum engineering lab in October 2022, and my main research interest is the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Yingshi Duo

I joined the group in January 2023 after I graduated from Imperial College London as a Master student. Before that, I studied as an undergraduate in the University of Manchester. During my undergraduate and postgraduate, my subject was Material Science and Engineering and I focused on the research of nanomaterials. For my PhD, I am studying the electron transport in interacting one-dimensional quantum wires.

Akin Turkkorkmaz

I received an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from UCL in 2024 and joined the group as a PhD student in the same year. I am interested in 1D /2D systems and computational methods in condensed matter physics. I like music and basketball :)