Dr. Marian Florescu and Dr. Eran Ginossar join TAC

Monday 5 September 2011

Dr. Marian Florescu graduated from the University of Bucharest with a BSc in Physics and then obtained his PhD in Theoretical Quantum Optics at the University of Toronto in 2003. Prior to joining the Physics Department at Surrey he was a Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University and a National Research Council Research Associate at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His current activities are focused on the physics and applications of non-crystallographic photonic band gap materials, thermal radiation control in photonic materials and quantum optics in structured photonic reservoirs.

Dr. Eran Ginossar obtained his BSc in Physics from Tel-Aviv University. During his graduate studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot he worked on extending the theory of optical spin orientation of direct gap semiconductors to include the fluctuations of the light and of the spins. After receiving his PhD in 2008 he moved to Yale University to study the physics of superconducting circuits, a field that is rapidly progressing in creating viable devices for quantum information processing. Additional topics of interest include interaction effects in mesoscopic systems, quantum optics and quantum simulations. Eran has joined the Department of Physics and the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey in 2011. He is a member of the APS and an EPSRC fellow.