Ben Lawrie

Dr. Ben Lawrie is a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Quantum Information Science group. He received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Materials Science in 2011 from Vanderbilt University and joined the ORNL staff in 2013 after two years in the QIS group as an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His current research focuses on the use of continuous variable entanglement and squeezing for quantum enhanced sensing and on the control of photonic and phononic interactions with defects and excitons in low-dimensional materials. He also holds an appointment as a joint assistant professor in the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee.