Huanqing Ye

Dr Huanqing Ye obtained his PhD in physics at Queen Mary University of London in 2014. After that, He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, meanwhile developing industrial partners in commercialising new materials. In 2018, He returned to London to join Chromosol Ltd, a spin-out company from QMUL, to lead the research and development of organic-integrated silicon lasers until 2022. He was appointed as a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (DKO) early-career researcher in July 2022, joining the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) in the School of Engineering, where his research activities are supported within the internationally renowned Photon Science Institute (PSI). His research interest is underpinned by deep research expertise in cutting-edge areas of 4f element material science, organic photonics, silicon photonics and molecular physics. As such, in addition to creating new intellectual property and commercialisation, he also publishes widely, including in Nature Materials, Light: Sci. Appl., JACS, etc. and has established a distinctive track record of interdisciplinary collaboration in silicon photonics, chemistry and technology consultancy that involves quantum technologies across the UK and with international universities and industrial partners. He is committed to developing a disruptive quantum photonic technology at the University with a vision of producing core components for quantum information technologies, which will play key roles in the global pipeline of the research and development of quantum computers.