Joshua W. Silverstone

Dr Joshua Silverstone is a senior postdoctoral researcher and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs. He earned a BSc in Engineering Physics from the University of Alberta, Canada, and, as an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Postgraduate Scholar, and earned a PhD from the University of Bristol in 2015, with thesis entitled ‘Entangled light in silicon waveguides’. His PhD work laid the foundations for silicon quantum photonics, and won the IoP Quantum Electronics and Photonics Group Thesis Prize in 2016. Joshua was founding Vice President of the Bristol Optical Students Society, and in 2016 he started Qontrol Systems LLP to advance the state-of-the-art in large-scale integrated optics. In 2017, he won a JSPS Short Term Fellowship, ’Ultrafast silicon quantum photonics’, embedded in the group of Dr. Hiroki Takesue at the NTT Basic Research Labs in Japan, and in 2018 won a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, ‘Silicon quantum computing: light work with long waves’.