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Life in the group

Group Activities

PhotoGroup barbecue 2026
PhotoGroup barbecue 2026, photo 2
PhotoGroup barbecue 2026, photo 3

Group barbecue 2026

September 2026

This year's barbecue was in September: we had been eagerly waiting since August for a sunny day in rainy Glasgow. Finally we managed to get a bit of sunshine!

PhotoIqra Rasheed presents her poster at the Niels Bohr Quantum Summer School

Iqra Rasheed presents her poster at the Niels Bohr Quantum Summer School

August 2026

Iqra with her poster “Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Quantum Nanoelectronic Devices”.

PhotoPublic talk: How fast is fast?

Public talk: How fast is fast?

June 2026

Iqra explaining the picosecond, one trillionth of a second, to a public audience.

PhotoChinese New Year outing 2026

Chinese New Year outing 2026

February 2026

The group out at a restaurant to celebrate Chinese New Year.

PhotoGroup barbecue 2025

Group barbecue 2025

2025

A sunny summer barbecue in the park.

PhotoPoster session

Poster session

Presenting our posters on ohmic contacts for semiconductor quantum electronics and on graphene devices, fabricated in the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre.

PhotoTalk at the JWNC meeting

Talk at the JWNC meeting

Abdulaziz presenting his work on the nanofabrication of THz trenches at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre meeting.

PhotoGroup dinner

Group dinner

The whole group out for a festive dinner.

PhotoGroup meeting with our 3 new members

Group meeting with our 3 new members

Welcoming Iqra, Abdulaziz and Chenxu to the UltraQUTE research group.

PhotoEscape room

Escape room

UltraQUTE at Locked In Glasgow in the city centre. We escaped the Ghosthunters room with 1 minute to spare, and had to use a floppy drive to do it.

PhotoChristmas Dinner 2024

Christmas Dinner 2024

Christmas dinner at a Japanese restaurant.

PhotoUltraQUTE new lab

UltraQUTE new lab

The brand new UltraQUTE research lab is loading: unboxing all the equipment.

PhotoJournal Club: Quantum Metrology

Journal Club: Quantum Metrology

Studying “Picosecond coherent electron motion in a silicon single-electron source”, Nature Nanotechnology 14, 1019 (2019).