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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/
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**Group lead / principal investigator**

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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" >}}).

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)