OUR TEAM
Group Director- Principal Investigator
Prof. John Goold (Royal Society/SFI URF and Associate Professor)
John is interested in the interface of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics and in particular on how irreversibility emerges from quantum dynamics of complex many body systems. He has worked on a number of different areas including ultra cold atomic physics, statistical mechanics and quantum information. He was promoted to the position of Associate Professor at TCD in October 2019.
In July of 2020 John was elected to the Young Academy of Europe. He has attracted over 5 million euro in research funding since joining Trinity College Dublin and most recently has forged partnerships with both Microsoft Ireland and IBM. He directs the MSc programme in Quantum Science and Technology at Trinity College Dublin and along with generous support of Microsoft Ireland has introduced the TCD-Microsoft Scholarships for the two best Female MSc applicants .
Following a PhD from University College Cork in 2010 John moved as a research fellow to the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University Of Singapore. In August 2010 he was awarded an INSPIRE Marie Curie Fellowship which he undertook at the University of Oxford where he was hosted in Vlatko Vedral’s quantum information theory group. In August 2013 he moved to The Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste Italy and remained there until October 2017 where he moved as Research Assistant Professor to Trinity College Dublin with a SFI Royal Society University Fellowship for a project on Thermodynamics for Quantum Technologies. Following the award of a Starting Grant from the European Research Council, in 2018 he founded the QuSys group at Trinity.
