We use quantum optical approaches to study potential applications of unique quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement (e.g. a future "quantum internet"), to probe whether these phenomena are universal, and to investigate whether they could play a role in biology (e.g. in neuroscience). Our theoretical research is often done in close collaboration with leading experimental groups.

Team Members

Dr. Christoph Simon

Postdoctoral Research Associate:

Parisa Zarkeshian
Hadi Zadeh Haghighi
Roohollah Ghobadi
Faezeh Kimiaee Asadi
Youssef Kora

Ph.D. Students:

Shahrzad Taheri
Jiawei Ji
Rishabh
Mahsa Karimi

M.Sc. Students:

Amirhosein Sotodehfar
Mahdi Bornadel
Kenneth Sharman

Visiting students:

Parvathy Nair (IISER Tirupati)
Arsalan Motamedi (University of Waterloo)
Janish Kumar (IIT Roorkee)

Undergraduate Students:

Karen Cobos Rodriguez
Salma Salhi
Emily Frede

Visiting scholars:

Former postdocs:

Nikolai Lauk (Postdoc, Caltech)
Christopher O'Brien (Researcher, NAVAIR)
Sandeep Goyal (Assistant Professor, IISER, Mohali)
Khabat Heshami (Research Officer, NRC Ottawa)
Jian Ming Wen (Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University)
Bing He (Associate Professor, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile)

Former PhD students:

Stephen Wein (Postdoc, Institut Neel, Grenoble)
Sumit Goswami
Khabat Heshami (Research Officer, NRC Ottawa)
Mohammad Khazali (Postdoc, IPM, Tehran)
Hon-Wai Lau (MPIPKS, Dresden)
Sourabh Kumar (Postdoc, University of Calgary)

Former MSc students:

Omid Gholami (PhD student, CalTech)
Tian Wang (PhD student, CalTech)
Hamidreza Kaviani (PhD student, Calgary)
Abhirup Goswami(PhD student, Queensland University of Technology)
Sadegh Raeisi (Assistant Professor, Sharif University of Technology)
Yufeng Wu (PhD student, Yale University)

Former visiting professors:

Yu Guo (Shanxi Datong University)
Qing Lin (Professor, National Huaqiao University)

Former visiting MSc students:

Jianlong Liu (University of Science and Technology of China)
Louise Budzynski (MSc student, ENS Paris)
Arnaud Rispe (Engineer, Paris)

Former visiting PhD students:

Yang Han (Researcher, Beijing)

Former research assistants:

Gisu Ham (Data Scientist, Ingu Solutions)
Kristine Boone (PhD student, Waterloo)
Rana Zibakhshshabgahi ( Graduate Student at UBC)

Former undergraduate students:

Gisu Ham (Data Scientist, Ingu Solutions)
Abhi Saxena (IIT Delhi)
James Clark (EdD student, Calgary)
Kristine Boone (PhD student, Waterloo)
Adam Green (Postdoc, CU Boulder)
Leslie Bicknell (MSc student, Vienna)
Adam Humeniuk(MSc student, Waterloo)
Ruchir Tullu (Undergraduate student, University of Toronto)
Babita Yadav (PhD student, Wisconsin)
Jordan Smith (MSc student, University of Calgary)