Ben Lawrie

Dr. Ben Lawrie is a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Quantum Information Science group. He received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Materials Science in 2011 from Vanderbilt University and joined the ORNL staff in 2013 after two years in the QIS group as an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His current research focuses on the use of continuous variable entanglement and squeezing for quantum enhanced sensing and on the control of photonic and phononic interactions with defects and excitons in low-dimensional materials. He also holds an appointment as a joint assistant professor in the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee.

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Alum Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Education Level: PhD
Disciplines: quantum mechanics, condensed matter, optics

Job Sector: government
Recent position: Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Job Description: I am a research scientist in the Quantum Information Science group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. My research has generally centered around quantum photonics for the past 7 years, which has allowed me to engage in research that spans fundamental quantum information science, nanophotonics, condensed matter physics, and electron microscopy. Our group has 14 staff scientists and several students and postdocs, with research thrusts across the group spanning quantum computation, quantum sensing, and quantum communications.