Aidan Arnold
University of Strathclyde
Aidan Arnold is a Reader in the EQOP group at the University of Strathclyde, who has been working in atomic physics for thirty years. As a PhD student with Dr Malcolm Boshier he turned an empty optical table into the first Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the UK in two years (Guardian 8/10/1998).
He has had leading roles in the world’s first delta-kick cooling of BECs, ring traps for BECs, and single-beam tetrahedral magneto-optical trap geometries – with particular impact in quantum technology and knowledge exchange. He also leads experiments in thermal atomic vapours: Doppler-broadening thermometry and four-wave mixing with structured light (Google Scholar).