Professor Corin Barry Edmund Gawith, University of Southampton

Corin Gawith is a Professorial Fellow Enterprise at the University of Southampton where he holds the Covesion / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair on Nonlinear Optical Materials by Ultra-Precision Machining. Corin's research focuses on the development of manufacturing processes for nonlinear optical materials used in wavelength conversion, a photonics technology used to change the wavelength of lasers to enable new applications in quantum technologies, defence, sensing, and laser displays. His work is primarily based on academic-industrial collaborations with funding support from Innovate UK, EPSRC, DSTL, the European Commission, the UKSA, and direct industrial contracts. Corin collaborates on some of the UK's largest quantum technology projects, including Innovate UK quantum technology flagship projects QT Assemble (2020-2024), Pioneer Gravity (2018-2021) and Cold Atom Space Payload (CASPA) (2017-2019) and the EPSRC Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Enhanced Imaging (2019-2024), the EPSRC Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors & Metrology (2014-2019), and the EPSRC Quantum Technology Hub for Networked Quantum Information Technology (2014-2019).