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+title: People
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+{{< people >}}
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+{{< collaborators >}}

content/people/chris-dawson/index.md

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+title: Chris Dawson
+surname: Dawson
+role: PhD 2020
+alumnus: true
+weight: 70
+links:
+  - name: LinkedIn
+    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-j-dawson/
+---
+
+
+**PhD student, to 2020**
+
+{{< links >}}
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+Chris completed his PhD in the group in 2020, [*Spectral Analysis and Parameter Estimation in Levitated Optomechanics*](/publications/theses/2020_Chris_Dawson.pdf), with work on spectral estimation for levitated optomechanics (Dawson & Bateman, *J. Opt. Soc. Am. B* **36**, 1565 (2018)).

content/people/james-bateman/index.md

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+title: James Bateman
+surname: Bateman
+role: Group lead
+weight: 10
+links:
+  - name: ORCID
+    url: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4885-2539
+  - name: LinkedIn
+    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bateman-549667122/
+---
+
+<figure class="fig-float right portrait">
+  <img src="photo.jpg" alt="James Bateman">
+</figure>
+
+**Group lead / principal investigator**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+James leads the Optomechanics Group in the [Department of Physics](https://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics) at Swansea University. He is principal investigator on the group's current projects: [LEVITAS]({{< relref "/projects/levitas" >}}), [LOTIS]({{< relref "/projects/lotis" >}}), [OSIAN]({{< relref "/projects/osian" >}}), and [NAMIQOS]({{< relref "/projects/namiqos" >}}).
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+His research spans levitated optomechanics, matterwave interferometry, and Bayesian inference and experiment design, with a particular interest in taking levitated optomechanics into space.
+
+**Contact:** [j.e.bateman@swansea.ac.uk](mailto:j.e.bateman@swansea.ac.uk)

content/people/karol-szuba-jablonski/index.md

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+title: Karol Szuba-Jabłoński
+surname: Szuba-Jablonski
+role: Postdoctoral researcher
+alumnus: true
+weight: 65
+links:
+  - name: LinkedIn
+    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-szuba-jablonski/
+---
+
+
+**Postdoctoral researcher**
+
+{{< links >}}
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+Karol was a postdoctoral researcher in the group, working on [LOTIS]({{< relref "/projects/lotis" >}}).

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+title: Matthew Edmonds
+surname: Edmonds
+role: PhD candidate
+weight: 30
+---
+
+
+**PhD candidate**
+
+{{< links >}}
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+Matthew is a PhD candidate in the Optomechanics Group, working on [OSIAN]({{< relref "/projects/osian" >}}) (optomechanical sensing for inertial, accelerometry, and navigation).

content/people/mobin-motaharifar/index.md

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+title: Mobin Motaharifar
+surname: Motaharifar
+role: PhD candidate
+weight: 40
+---
+
+
+**PhD candidate**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Mobin is a PhD candidate in the Optomechanics Group, working on [NAMIQOS]({{< relref "/projects/namiqos" >}}) (nanoparticle manipulation and integration for quantum optomechanical systems).

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+title: Rafał Gajewski
+surname: Gajewski
+role: Postdoctoral researcher
+weight: 20
+---
+
+
+**Postdoctoral researcher**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Rafał completed his PhD in the group in 2024, *Backaction suppression in levitated optomechanics*, and works on the theory and experiment of levitated optomechanics for space sensing.
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+He is lead author of the group's work on backaction suppression using reflective boundaries ([*Phys. Rev. Research* **7**, 023041 (2025)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.023041)) and of the [LEVITAS]({{< relref "/projects/levitas" >}}) sensing concept ([*Quantum Sci. Technol.* **11**, 045034 (2026)](https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ae99fb)).

content/people/shaun-laing/index.md

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+title: Shaun Laing
+surname: Laing
+role: Postdoctoral researcher
+alumnus: true
+weight: 60
+---
+
+
+**Postdoctoral researcher**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Shaun did his PhD in the group (2024, *Bayesian Inference and Collapse Models in Levitated Optomechanics*) and then continued as a postdoctoral researcher. His work centres on Bayesian inference and tests of fundamental physics with levitated systems.
+
+Through LeviNet he undertook a Scientific Mission to the [Geraci Research Group at Northwestern University](https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/andrew-geraci/index.html).