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• Biography

  Ben Sparkes obtained his PhD in Physics from the Australian National University in 2013, where he developed techniques to store and manipulate optical quantum information. In 2013 he moved to the University of Melbourne to work on the development of a cold atom electron/ion source, aiming to create ultra-short ultra-bright bunches of electrons for single-shot diffraction imaging of biological samples, as well as focused ion beams for sub-nanometre resolution fabrication. He was awarded a McKenzie Fellowship from the University of Melbourne from 2014-2016, which allowed him to investigate novel methods to improve the source performance.
  
  In 2017, Ben Sparkes was awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow to join the Precision Measurement Group at the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide working towards realising a fibre-based optical quantum information network for absolutely secure communications and next- generation computing. He is excited to be spending 3 months with the Gaeta group at Columbia University of a Fulbright Future Scholarship.