Associate Professor John Bartholomew
Associate Professor John Bartholomew
- Chief Investigator
- The University of Sydney
About John
Associate Professor John Bartholomew is the Director of the Quantum Integration Laboratory at the University of Sydney. He is developing technologies to enable a future quantum internet, with a particular focus on rare-earth quantum systems. His research explores the use of crystals containing the rare-earth element erbium to integrate optical photons, microwave photons, and solid-state spins within a single quantum platform.
He received his PhD in Physics from the Australian National University in 2014, working with Associate Professor Matthew Sellars in the Solid State Spectroscopy Group. His doctoral research focused on advancing the miniaturisation and scalability of rare-earth-ion systems for quantum information applications.
Following his PhD, he joined the Crystal and Quantum State Dynamics Group at Chimie ParisTech in France, where he investigated the quantum optical properties of rare-earth ions in nanoparticles. In 2016, he was awarded the American Australian Association Northrop Grumman Fellowship, enabling him to undertake research with the Nanoscale and Quantum Optics Group at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). After more than three years in Pasadena, he returned to Australia in 2019 to lead the Quantum Integration Laboratory.
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