OUR TEAM
Group Director- Principal Investigator
Prof. John Goold (Royal Society/SFI URF and Professor in Physics)
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.
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 founded the MSc programme in Quantum Science and Technology at Trinity College Dublin and has established both the TCD-Microsoft Ireland Scholarships for the two best Female applicants to the MSc program and with SandboxAQ the Trinity AQ scholarship program for under-represented students from the global south. In May 2023 John launched and now directs the Trinity Quantum Alliance.
For these activities John was recently awarded the Industry Engagement award from Trinity College Dublin. He is actively involved in the Studio Quantum project with the Goethe Institute in Ireland
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.
