Rate My Professor Gavin Morley

Professor Gavin Morley is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, where he leads a research group developing quantum science and technology based on nitrogen-vacancy colour centres in diamond. He earned his undergraduate degree and PhD in Physics from the University of Oxford. Morley has held fellowships from the 1851 Royal Commission and the Royal Society, and his research has received support from UK Quantum Technology Hubs, including Networked Quantum Information Technologies, Quantum Sensors for Healthcare, and the Quantum Biomedical Sensing Hub (Q-BIOMED). As Founding Director of Warwick Quantum, an interdisciplinary initiative advancing quantum technology, he leads the MAST-QG project on macroscopic quantum superpositions towards testing the quantum nature of gravity. His group, part of the Diamond Quantum Technology Lab and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Diamond Science and Technology, focuses on quantum magnetometry, quantum computing prototypes, and levitated nanodiamond experiments.

Morley's contributions have advanced NV centre applications in high-sensitivity magnetometry for biomedical sensing, such as tumour detection, and fundamental quantum experiments. With over 5,500 citations on Google Scholar, key publications include 'Spin Entanglement Witness for Quantum Gravity' (Physical Review Letters, 2017), 'Laser writing of coherent colour centres in diamond' (Nature Photonics, 2017), 'Potential for spin-based information processing in a thin-film molecular semiconductor' (Nature, 2013), 'Matter-wave interferometry of a levitated thermal nano-oscillator induced and probed by a spin' (Physical Review Letters, 2013), and 'Deoxygenation of graphene oxide: reduction or cleaning?' (Chemistry of Materials, 2013). His work bridges quantum information processing, sensing, and tests of quantum gravity, influencing quantum technology development at Warwick and beyond.