Prof Erling Riis

Head Of Department

Physics

Personal statement

Erling Riis joined the Physics Department in 1991 after having worked as a post-doc with Nobel Laureate Steven Chu at Stanford for two years. Initially research at Strathclyde concentrated on high-resolution atomic spectroscopy and the development of the highly specialised laser sources required for these experiments. This work also formed the foundation of the establishment of activities at Strathclyde in laser cooling of atoms.

Presently this work ranges from fundamental studies of atom interferometry to the development of a platform for miniaturising cold atom based quantum technology.

Prizes and awards

Fellow of the Institute of Physics: Recipient; 1/2008
Fellow of the Optical Society of America: Recipient; 1/4/2007

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Publications

Double-resonance magnetometry in arbitrarily oriented fields: Ingleby Stuart, Riis Erling, Arnold Aidan, Griffin Paul, O'Dwyer Carolyn, Chalmers Iain; Workshop on Optically Pumped Magnetometers 2017, (2017)
Orientational effects on the amplitude and phase of polarimeter signals in double resonance atomic magnetometry: Ingleby Stuart J., O'Dwyer Carolyn, Griffin Paul F., Arnold Aidan S., Riis Erling; Physical Review A, (2017)
High-precision control of static magnetic field magnitude, orientation, and gradient using optically pumped vapour cell magnetometry: Ingleby S. J., Griffin P. F., Arnold A. S., Chouliara M., Riis E.; Review of Scientific Instruments Vol 88, (2017); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4980159
Grating chips for quantum technologies: McGilligan James P., Griffin Paul F., Elvin Rachel, Ingleby Stuart J., Riis Erling, Arnold Aidan S.; Scientific Reports Vol 7, (2017); http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00254-0
Magnetometry optimisation in unshielded environments: Arnold Aidan, Griffin Paul, Riis Erling, Kale Yogeshwar, Ingleby Stuart, Henderson Victoria, Elvin Rachel, McGilligan James Patrick; 47th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, (2016)
UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology: Bongs K., Boyer V., Cruise M. A., Freise A., Holynski M., Hughes J., Kaushik A., Lien Y.-H., Niggebaum A., Perea-Ortiz M., Petrov P., Plant S., Singh Y., Stabrawa A., Paul D. J., Sorel M., Cumming D. R. S., Marsh J. H., Bowtell R. W., Bason M. G., Beardsley R. P., Campion R. P., Brookes M. J., Fernholz T., Fromhold T. M., Hackermuller L., Krüger P., Li X., Maclean J. O., Mellor C. J., Novikov S. V., Orucevic F., Rushforth A. W., Welch N., Benson T. M., Wildman R. D., Freegarde T., Himsworth M., Ruostekoski J., Smith P., Tropper A., Griffin P. F., Arnold A. S., Riis E., Hastie J. E., Paboeuf D., Parrotta D. C., Garraway B. M., Pasquazi A., Peccianti M., Hensinger W., Potter E., Nizamani A. H., Bostock H., Rodriguez Blanco A., Sinuco-Leon G., Hill I. R., Williams R. A., Gill P., Hempler N., Malcolm G. P. A., Cross T., Kock B. O., Maddox S., John P.; Quantum OpticsProceedings of SPIE Vol 9900, pp. 990009-1-990009-7, (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2232143

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Professional activities

Stanford-Strathclyde Quantum Technology Workshop: Organiser; 9/12/2014
Innovate UK (External organisation): Member; 11/2014
The Danish Council for Independent Research (External organisation): Member; 1/9/2014
External Examiner, NUI Galway: External Examiner; 1/10/2011
International Conference for Laser Spectroscopy: Organiser; 2008
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) (External organisation): Member; 1/2008

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Projects

STFC Strathclyde 2017 DTP: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator); Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at www.rcuk.ac.uk/StudentshipTerminology. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.; Period 01-Oct-2017 - 30-Sep-2021
Impact Acceleration Account - University Of Strathclyde 2012 / R120526-253: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator); Period 01-Oct-2012 - 31-Mar-2017
Feasibility of Magneto-cardiography in Livestock (QuBeat) - IUK project with Icerobotics: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Ingleby, Stuart (Co-investigator); Period 01-Sep-2017 - 31-Aug-2018
gMOT: Scalable manufacture and evaluation of miniature cold atom traps IUK project with KNT&TMD: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator); Period 01-Sep-2017 - 28-Feb-2019
Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Johnson, Matthew: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Johnson, Matthew (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Oct-2016 - 01-Oct-2019
Scott Thomas PhD studentship - NPL: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator); Period 01-Oct-2016 - 30-Oct-2020

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