Mete Atatüre#
| Membership Number: | 5602 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.quantum.cam.ac.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3852-0944 |
| Twitter: | @MeteAtature |
Present and Previous Positions
- Oct. 2015 - present Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Oct. 2011 - Sept. 2015 Associate Professor in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- June 2007 - Sept. 2011 Assistant Professor in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- April 2007 - May 2007 Privat Dozent, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- April 2003 - February 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow / Oberassistent, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- June 2002 - March 2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, 4. Physicalishes Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Optics of atomically thin quantum devices and emergent many-body physics based on layered materials heterostructures
- Light-matter quantum interfaces in solids for quantum network hardware
- Quantum optical control of spins and spin ensembles in semiconductors
- Nanoscale quantum sensing and imaging using diamond-based magnetometry
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Thomas Young Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (IoP)
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
- 2020 ERC Advanced Grant Award, European Research Council
- 2020 Elected Distinguished Research Fellow, Sabanci University
- 2016 Science Person of the Year – MSIC National Students’ Choice Award
- 2015 Outstanding Achievement Award – GQ Turkey Man of the Year
- 2013 ERC Consolidator Grant Award, European Research Council
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the Turkish Science Academy (TBA)
- 2010 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK (IoP)
- 2010 - 2014 Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences & USTC, China
- 2007 ERC Starting Grant Award, European Research Council
- 2007 Venia Legendi in Experimental Physics, ETH Zurich
