Biography
Cristian Bonato is a Professor at Heriot-Watt University, where he leads the "Spin-based quantum technology" theme within the Quantum Photonics Laboratory. He currently holds an EPSRC Early-Career fellowship (2019-2024) and is the Principal Investigator for Heriot-Watt's Nanoscale Quantum Sensing facility.
Born in the Venice area (Italy), he has been awarded a MSc in Physics (2004) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (2008), both from the University of Padova (Italy), for work on quantum communication and photonic entanglement. Between 2006-2008, he has been a visiting researcher at Boston University, USA (Sasha Sergienko's group). Before joining Heriot-Watt University as Assistant Professor in 2016, he has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Netherlands on semiconductor cavity-QED (Leiden University, Dirk Bouwmesteer's group) and on spin control with nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond (Technical University Delft, Ronald Hanson's group).