Professor 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

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
Design and fabrication of diffractive atom chips for laser cooling and trapping: Cotter J. P., McGilligan J. P., Griffin P. F., Rabey I. M., Docherty K., Riis E., Arnold A. S., Hinds E. A.; Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics Vol 122, (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6415-y
Diffraction grating characterisation for cold-atom experiments: McGilligan J. P., Griffin P. F., Riis E., Arnold A. S.; Journal of the Optical Society of America B Vol 33, pp. 1271-1277, (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.33.001271

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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

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
Industrial Case Account 2016 | Bevington, Patrick: Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) Bevington, Patrick (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Oct-2016 - 01-Oct-2019
Industrial Case Account 2015 | Thomas, Scott James: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Thomas, Scott James (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Oct-2016 - 01-Oct-2019
X-ray production and imaging using ultra intense lasers | Jawahar, Sharat: Lockerbie, Nicholas (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) Jawahar, Sharat (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Nov-2012 - 01-Mar-2016
Single-atom-resolved detection and manipulation of strongly correlated fermions in an optical lattice (FERMILATT) | Cotta, Dylan: Kuhr, Stefan (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) Cotta, Dylan (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Nov-2012 - 01-May-2016

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Physics
John Anderson Building

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