Mete Atatüre

Mete Atatüre is Head of Department and Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the PHY department. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1996 from Bilkent University Physics Department in Turkey. He joined the Quantum Imaging Laboratory at Boston University for his PhD studies and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Quantum Photonics Group at ETH Zurich from 2002 to 2007. He joined the Cavendish Laboratory in June 2007 as a University Lecturer, was promoted to a Readership in 2011, and to a Professorship in 2015. His research focuses on light-matter quantum interfaces in solids for quantum network hardware, optics of atomically thin quantum devices, and nanoscale quantum sensing and imaging.

Mete Atature is a researcher at the University of Cambridge, specializing in quantum optics, photonics, spin qubits, and semiconductors. His work explores the quantum nature of strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity systems and the development of semiconductor-based single-photon sources. Atature's research focuses on achieving high photoluminescence efficiency, optically pumped lasing, and deterministic coupling of quantum dots to nanocavity modes. He investigates material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies and the electronic structure of defects in semiconductors, such as silicon vacancies in diamond. His studies also address coherence control of spin qubits through strain engineering and the generation of entangled states between distant spin qubits.