Professor Mehul Malik, Heriot-Watt University

Professor Malik aims to harness the spatial and temporal structure of light for robust quantum communication and networking. Quantum technologies today offer society the promise of unconditional data security and unparalleled processing power. However, they are notoriously susceptible to noise and are set to face significant data bottlenecks in the future. Professor Malik will develop an emergent photonics platform that leverages high-dimensional quantum states of light to maximise the information capacity of future quantum networks and simultaneously enable them to operate in a noisy, real-world environment.