Current Members

Principal Investigator

Henry F. Legg

Lecturer (≈ asst. prof., see “Commonwealth System”)

Previously:
2020-2024: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Basel, Group of Jelena Klinovaja & Daniel Loss
2015-2019: PhD, University of Cologne, Group of Achim Rosch
2011-2015: MPhys, Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of St Andrews

CV with further details

Email: hl29[@]st-andrews.ac.uk

PhD Students

We are always looking for new PhD students. Please contact Henry Legg if you are interested.
Applications via the central St Andrews system typically close in January. More details here.

Raja Amdouni

Sept. 2025 – present
Joint with Stanisław Gałęski, Nijmegen
Enrico Fermi Fellow

Project: Pushing gravity to the limit: Thermal conductance in the quantum limit of topological matter.

Thomas Osborne

Sept. 2025 – present.
Joint with Bernd Braunecker

Project: Nonlinear quantum diagnostics and control in and out of equilibrium.

MPhys Students

Grace Payne

January 2026 – present

Bethany Smithson

January 2026 – present

Former members

MPhys Students

Jacob Holder

Thesis: Superconducting Diode Effect In Josephson Junctions with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling

Sam Steer

Thesis: Long-Range Crossed Andreev Reflection in Hybrid Low-Dimensional Systems

Kin Wang Pang

Thesis: Improving spin qubit readout fidelity using machine learning

Group dinner Feb 2026

Group dinner Dec 2024