dr jacques carolan
Jacques is a Research Fellow developing novel optical technologies for large-scale, high-speed interrogation of neural circuits. Previously, he was developing on photonic technologies to accelerate quantum and classical computing, initially as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Quantum Photonics Lab and then at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.
He completed his PhD in 2015 in Physics at the University of Bristol Centre for Quantum Photonics. He has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship, attended the 66th Landau Nobel Laureates Meeting and was a UK finalist in FameLab.
Outside the lab he spends his time trying to make people laugh (improv comedy), falling off walls (rock climbing), and hedging his bets in case science doesn’t work out (making sourdough bread [it’s always useful to have a fall back plan]).