Rate My Professor Paul Griffin

Professor Paul Griffin holds the Judith and Harold Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Sensing in the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde. He earned a BSc in Applied Physics from the University of Limerick in 2001 and a PhD in Atomic Physics from Durham University in 2005, investigating atoms trapped in far-off-resonant dipole traps. Following his PhD, he held a postdoctoral research position at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta from 2005 to 2008. Griffin joined the University of Strathclyde in 2008 in the Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics group, initially the Photonics Group. His career includes a five-year Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship from 2009, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie CO-FUND Fellowship in 2009 funding a Guest Researcher position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland from 2010 to 2011, and a Chancellor's Fellowship in 2015 leading to his Lecturer appointment that year, followed by promotion to Professor.

Paul Griffin's research focuses on atomic physics and quantum technologies, including atomic clocks, atom interferometry, optically-pumped magnetometers, laser-cooled atoms, atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, cold atom platforms, and space quantum technologies. He contributes to UK quantum initiatives such as the QT Hub in Sensors and Timing, QuSIT Hub in Sensing, Imaging, and Timing, and QEPNT Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation, and Timing, co-leading the atomic clocks workpackage in QEPNT. He leads a work package in the EPSRC programme grant 'Chip-scale Atomic Systems for a Quantum Navigator' and co-leads the EPSRC International Network on Space Quantum Technologies. Key publications include 'Intrinsic atomic calibration of oscillating magnetic fields in ULF and VLF bands' (Review of Scientific Instruments, 2026), 'High-resolution atomic magnetometer-based imaging of integrated circuits and batteries' (IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2026), 'Chip-scale atomic spectrometer with silicon nitride optical phased array' (APL Photonics, 2025), 'A compact high-flux grating chip cold atom source' (New Journal of Physics, 2025), 'Single-beam grating-chip 3D and 1D optical lattices' (Physical Review Letters, 2025), and 'Optimizing longitudinal spin relaxation in miniaturized optically pumped magnetometers' (Physical Review Applied, 2024). His work has over 2,860 citations and emphasizes knowledge exchange and technology transfer.