Morgan Mitchell

ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences

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Prof. Mitchell leads the Atomic Quantum Optics research group at The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona, Spain, and holds the title of ICREA Research Professor. He has applied quantum optics to quantum technologies including quantum sensing, quantum communications, and quantum random number generation, as well as to quantum foundations topics such quantum non-locality. His quantum sensing activities largely focus on sensitive detection of magnetic fields, and include the first application of squeezed light to magnetic sensing, the first application of spin squeezed states to magnetic sensing, and the invention of practical atomic sensing protocols that escape quantum measurement back-action. He led the work package "Miniaturized Optically Pumped Magnetometers" in the Quantum Flagship project macQsimal, work that continues in the EIC Transition project OPMMEG. Prof. Mitchell was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2011, an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2016, and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2023. His obsession with quantifying quantum noise led to the invention of metrologically-assured quantum random number generators. He has provided these to most loophole-free Bell tests, including those recognized with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2022. In 2017 he co-founded Quside Technologies, which now employs nearly 50 people in Castelldefels (Barcelona).