Professor Erling Riis
Physics
Personal statement
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.
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Prize 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
- A quantum-classical cold atom system for inertial navigation
- Griffin Paul, Burrow Oliver, Cannon Rachel, Riis Erling
- Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol 13392 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3040697
- Control of electro-optic sideband spectrum using sequential modulators
- Dammalapati U, Elvin R, Griffin PF, Riis E
- Journal of Optics Vol 27 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/adb860
- A compact high-flux grating chip cold atom source
- Heine Hendrik, Arnold Aidan S, Le Gonidec Melanie S, Griffin Paul F, Riis Erling, Herr Waldemar, Rasel Ernst M
- New Journal of Physics Vol 27 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/adbc14
- Single-beam grating-chip 3D and 1D optical lattices
- Bregazzi Alan, McGilligan James P, Griffin Paul F, Riis Erling, Arnold Aidan S
- Physical Review Letters Vol 134 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.013001
- Optical phased array for sub-Doppler spectroscopy of the rubidium D2 absorption line
- Januszewicz Jeremi, Di Gaetano Eugenio, McConkey Zack, Sinclair Martin, Hawley Ugnė, Dyer Sean, McGilligan James, Griffin Paul F, Riis Erling, Sorel Marc, Paul Douglas J, Gallacher Kevin
- 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) IEEE Photonics Conference 2024 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ipc60965.2024.10799735
- Optimizing longitudinal spin relaxation in miniaturized optically pumped magnetometers
- McWilliam A P, Dyer S, Hunter D, Mrozowski M, Ingleby S J, Sharp O, Burt D P, Griffin P F, McGilligan J P, Riis E
- Physical Review Applied Vol 22 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.064024
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Professional Activities
- Climate Finance Innovation: Connecting Financial Technology, Space Data and Resilient Timing
- Invited speaker
- 9/5/2023
- Quantum Technology Showcase 2019
- Participant
- 15/11/2019
- Scottish Centre for Innovation in quantum computing and simulation (External organisation)
- Member
- 7/5/2019
- Israel Science Foundation (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 5/2019
- Towards a compact atomic clock based on coherent population trapping and the grating magneto-optical trap
- Speaker
- 6/2/2019
- CLEO 2019 (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/1/2019
Projects
- UK Quantum Technology Hub in Sensing, Imaging and Timing (QuSIT)
- Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Ingleby, Stuart (Co-investigator) Kallepalli, Akhil (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2029
- QEPNT A UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation and Timing - Full Stage
- Hastie, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Ingleby, Stuart (Co-investigator) McGilligan, James Patrick (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2029
- Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2022 | Vohnikova, Veronika
- Arnold, Aidan (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) Vohnikova, Veronika (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Dorne, Anais Camille Annabel
- Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) Dorne, Anais Camille Annabel (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2027
- EPSRC Place Based Impact Accelerator for Photonics in Central Scotland
- Hastie, Jennifer (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 29-Jan-2028
- Chip-scale Atomic Systems for a Quantum Navigator (Programme Grant)
- Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2028