Jennifer Hastie

University of Strathclyde

jennifer.hastie@strath.ac.uk 

Professor Jennifer Hastie is Director of the Institute of Photonics at the University of Strathclyde, an applied research unit and cost centre within the Department of Physics with more than 70 staff and postgraduate students conducting research in Advanced Lasers, Photonic Integration and Devices, Neurophotonics, and Optical Wireless Communications.

She leads the Institute’s research in high brightness lasers with a primary interest in meeting the challenging laser performance requirements for cutting-edge applications in metrology and quantum technology, and from 2014-2024 she was on the Management Board of the National Quantum Technology Hub for Sensing & Timing.

She is Deputy Principal Investigator of the EPSRC-funded programme the Photonics & Quantum Accelerator as well as the National Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation, and Timing.

In 2023 she was elected a Fellow of Optica for “leadership in the photonics and quantum technology community and pioneering technical contributions in the area of narrow-linewidth lasers.”