The newly launched NPL Visiting Fellowship programmes will strengthen collaboration and stimulate partnerships.  

New Visiting Fellow in Quantum Electrical Metrology

  Dr Akira Fujiwara is a Senior Distinguished Scientist at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Basic Research Laboratories in Japan and has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow in Quantum Electrical Metrology in the Quantum Technologies (QT) Department at NPL for a period of three years (2024-2027).  

  Dr Fujiwara was a Group Leader for the Nanodevices Research Group, as well as the Manager of the Physical Science Laboratory until 2020.  He serves as a Member of the Science Council of Japan and has been organising the Basic Research Laboratory (BRL) School to which many young research scientists and students from NPL have attended and benefited from state-of-the-art research presentations. 

  In 2014 he set up a Cooperation Agreement between NPL and NTT and the resulting collaborative work on silicon based single-electron pumps produced 6 peer reviewed journal papers. His Visiting Fellowship will expand the collaboration between NTT and NPL in wider areas of quantum technologies. 

New Visiting Fellow in Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Metrology

  Professor Jan Stake, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow in Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Metrology in the Electromagnetic and Electrochemical Technologies (EET) Department at NPL for a period of three years (2024-2027). 

  Professor Stake is a globally recognised expert in millimetre-wave and terahertz metrology for semiconductor electronics. He currently leads the Terahertz and Millimetre-Wave Laboratory at Chalmers University of Technology, where his team explores the high frequency spectrum for various applications, including space and future telecommunications. Professor Stake has recently been awarded a prestigious European Research Council grant for his project “Far-infrared Semiconductor Electronics”. 

  Professor Stake's research focuses on semiconductors and future telecommunications. The development of test and measurement capabilities to support the UK's 5G and 6G telecommunications infrastructure, exploiting broader bandwidths and higher (terahertz) frequencies, is featured in NPL’s Metrology Research Roadmaps.  Professor Stake’s work aligns seamlessly with the strategic priorities of both the UK government and NPL. 

More information can be found here: NPL welcomes its first visiting fellows - NPL

Contributor: Lesley Lenssen, NPL, UK