Team

I feel extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to build my dream team at Quantum Software Lab in Edinburgh. These are the amazing, unique, and talented people I’m lucky to supervise in different capacities.
My bigger work family is QSL. You can find the the list of all my cool QSL colleagues and collaborator here on QSL website.

PhD students
  • Chirag Wadhwa (primary supervisor), started Fall 2023, QSL, University of Edinburgh
  • Mario Herrero Gonzalez (primary supervisor, co-supervising with Elham Kashefi), started Fall 2024, Quantum Informatics DTP student, University of Edinburgh
  • Tommy Williams (primary supervisor, co-supervising with Farid Shahandeh), started Fall 2024, Quantum Informatics DTP student, University of Edinburgh
  • Roo Dunnill (primary supervisor, second supervisor: Alexandru Cojocaru), started Fall 2025, University of Edinburgh
  • Stuart Ferguson (second supervisor, primary supervisor: Petros Wallden), started Fall 2023, LFCS, QSL, University of Edinburgh
  • Abbas Poshtvan (unofficial advisor)
  • Rebecca Hofer (visiting student from University of Vienna )
MSc and MScR students
Research Assistants and Interns
  • Kim Worrall, Research Intern, Spring 2026, QSL, University of Edinburgh
Former Interns and Students
  • Julia Miklas (research Intern 2024-2025), currently Master student at University of Oxford
  • Laura Lewis (project supervisor, MScR student 2024), currently PhD student at University of California, Berkeley
  • Ben Priestley (Summer LFCS intern 2024), currently PhD student at University of Cambridge
  • Chirag Wadhwa (research intern 2023), currently my PhD student at QSL, LFCS, University of Edinburgh
  • Sara Sarfaraz (research intern), currently Research Associate at the University of Waterloo
  • Magnus Kleinau (LFCS master student)

Want to join my team?

If what I do sounds interesting to you and you are interested in one (or more) of my research topics and you like to join my team as a research intern or PhD student, contact me via my email.

I'm one of the CDT supervisors for the Quantum Informatics CDT programme of University of Edinburgh. If you're looking to do a PhD with me, that's the main option for now.

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