Tomasz Smoleński - Principal Investigator

Incoming Assistant Professor (starting February 2025)

Experimental researcher working at the intersection of condensed matter physics, quantum materials and quantum optics.

In my research, I design custom low-dimensional electrically-tunable semiconductor structures and use to them to explore fundamental emergent quantum phenomena in low-temperature magneto-optical experiments. From 2018 to 2024, I worked as a Postdoc in the Quantum Photonics Group of Prof. Atac Imamoglu at ETH Zurich. My research activity was mainly focused on developing novel optical quantum sensing techniques for detecting and visualizing strongly correlated electronic phases in van der Waals heterostructures.

I obtained my PhD in 2018 at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw in Poland on optimizing the properties of ultimate magnetic memories based on the spin of an individual magnetic dopant embedded inside a semiconductor quantum dot. My experiments were carried out in the Laboratory of Ultrafast Magneto-Spectroscopy LUMS.