Meet our Quantum experts here:
Urs Ferber
Partner, Patent Attorney
urs.ferber@mewburn.com
Urs is a partner in our quantum technology team. Urs has a Master’s degree in physics from the University of Ulm. He then completed his PhD at University College Dublin at the Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research.
Urs' focus in quantum technologies is on quantum optics, photonics and quantum sensors. He is particularly interested in integrated quantum photonics and new imaging techniques using quantum sensors. Urs is excited by the diverse solutions and recent discoveries in the quantum field.
Urs works with a range of clients from start-ups to publicly listed companies, mainly in Germany, Switzerland, France, USA, Japan, Korea and China.
Andrew Fearnside
Senior Associate, Patent Attorney
andrew.fernside@mewburn.com
Andrew is a senior associate in our quantum technology team. Andrew has a first-class degree in theoretical physics from the University of York, where his undergraduate project on the quantum mechanics of electron scattering was published in a scientific journal. Andrew was later awarded a PhD in theoretical atomic physics from the University of Durham, studying laser-atom interactions, and then pursued work in theoretical quantum optics whilst a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, in Munich. His research led to more publications in scientific journals.
Andrew handles patent applications for quantum technologies across the full spectrum of this technology sector including drafting and prosecuting patent applications for quantum computing, such as quantum information processing circuits, quantum algorithms, and quantum error correction, as well as inventions relating to quantum optics, quantum random number generation, and quantum navigation and sensing.
Johannes Biniok
Associate, Patent Attorney
johannes.biniok@mewburn.com
Johannes’ main areas of interest include consumer electronics, such audio systems, and quantum technologies with a focus on applications in materials science and chemistry.
Johannes holds an undergraduate degree in theoretical physics from the University of St Andrews and a postgraduate degree in mathematical physics from the University of York. His undergraduate and postgraduation education focussed on quantum physics.
His postgraduate research was in the foundations of quantum mechanics and involved finding precise mathematical descriptions of the physical observables of quantum states on regular structures. Physical systems which can be so described include the periodic structures of solid-state physics but also the regular (but non-periodic) structures found in chemistry and biology, for example in molecules and plants. His research involved expressing the (in-)compatibility of physical observables in such systems in terms of appropriate uncertainty relations. He published multiple scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Johannes advises a wide spectrum of clients including start-ups, SMEs, universities, university spin-outs, and multinationals.
Jack Davies
Associate, Patent Attorney
jack.davies@mewburn.com
Jack is an associate in our quantum technology team. Jack studied at the University of Warwick, where he obtained a first class integrated Master’s degree in Physics (MPhys). Areas of particular focus included both quantum physics and materials physics, in which he explored the theoretical basis of quantum algorithms and their future applications, as well as the structure and dynamics of solids. This study led to research projects focusing on the simulation of low dimensional spin-lattice materials and novel approaches to epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials, the latter resulting in publication in a scientific journal.
Jack regularly writes quantum-focused blogs following ongoing developments in the quantum technology sector. He is particularly interested in quantum communication and interoperability (both between exclusively quantum systems and between quantum and classical technology), and how developments in these areas will impact the wider quantum landscape.
Jack works with a range of different clients including start-ups, universities, and multinational corporations, with a range of different technologies including innovations in quantum sensing.
Josh Blunsden
Patent Technical Assistant
josh.blunsden@mewburn.com
Josh is a trainee patent attorney in our quantum technology team. Josh’s interest in quantum optics has been nurtured in his education in quantum chemistry as an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford and in his studies and research as a postgraduate student in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Controlled Quantum Dynamics at Imperial College London.
Josh’s postgraduate master’s research project centred on the use of acousto-optics to generate tightly focused trapping lasers (known as tweezer traps) for ultracold molecules. This project was inspired by the body of research on atomic tweezer traps that has led to an entire category of quantum computers based on neutral atoms. Josh continued his work for a PhD research project with the aim of integrating a reconfigurable array of these molecular tweezer traps into a system for carrying out quantum simulation experiments by exploiting the dipole-dipole interactions between the trapped molecules. As such, Josh takes a great interest in how quantum optics is applied in the development of architectures for quantum computing and quantum simulation.
Amelia Sloan
Patent Technical Assistant
amelia.sloan@mewburn.com
Amelia is a trainee patent attorney in our quantum technology team. Amelia’s main areas of interest are quantum mechanics and reinforcement learning algorithms.
Amelia has a Master's degree in Mathematics from Imperial College London which took a broad focus. Early university projects included research into solutions to the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanical systems. Later, her studies focused particularly on geometry and topology, leading to a masters project utilising geometric techniques to study behaviours in Hamiltonian systems. She also gave seminars before her final year as part of a working group in differential topology.
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