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Gavin Morley

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Physics professor at University of Warwick

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The photo is from our recent visit to Queen Square to give a talk organized by Gareth Barnes and the MEG team.
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It's awesome to have Kirill Eves and Anis Rahman as Co-Founders, and it's great to be working closely with Peter Zhegin on this. We're currently hiring core engineers from our network, and will be advertizing further engineering roles soon.
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm very excited to anounce that I'm Co-Founder and CEO at e184 BAI. As AI advances, having a way to work more closely with it is ever more important. That's why we're developing sensitive magnetometers for magnetoencephalography (MEG) towards building a brain-computer interface.
Photo of Gavin Morley next to magnetically shielded room in Gareth Barnes’ lab in Queen Square
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Congrats to Alex Newman on his great PhD and passing his viva!
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Congrats!
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We took our annual group photo
Morley group photo 2025
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Wow impressive :)
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We were inspired by the work of breast cancer surgeon Stuart Robertson at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust. We got great funding and support from the National Nuclear Laboratory, EPSRC, STFC, Innovate UK and Dstl. We are taking this further with www.qbiomed.org
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www.qbiomed.org.uk
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
…and our paper is here journals.aps.org/prapplied/ab... 🧪 💡 It's great to work on this at the University of Warwick. We used a beautiful diamond made by Matthew Markham and Andrew Edmonds at Element Six
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Endoscopic diamond magnetometer for cancer surgery
Intraoperative measurements using magnetic sensors are a valuable technique in cancer surgery for finding magnetic tracers. Here we present a fiber-coupled nitrogen-vacancy center magnetometer capable...
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Alex Newman built a diamond magnetometer we'd like to use for cancer surgery. The sensor head is 10 mm across: small enough for keyhole surgery and endoscopy. He could detect the magnetic tracer fluid used in breast cancer surgery. The Independent covered it: www.the-independent.com/news/health/...
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Diamonds could help detect cancer using groundbreaking new technique
University of Warwick scientists have created a device that is designed to trace tiny magnetic particles injected into the body
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Congrats to Alex Newman for winning the best talk prize at the Warwick Diamond Conference! He talked about his great work building an endoscopic probe based on diamond for finding cancer: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05884
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Great postdoc job opportunity to work with Mark Newton, Ben Green and Julie Macpherson warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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Quick Check Needed
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The Warwick Quantum Launch Event yesterday was awesome thanks to the interesting and dynamic speakers and attendees! Quantum technology is in great shape. We appreciate support from the University of Warwick Digital Spotlight and the EPSRC network M4QN. warwick.ac.uk/WarwickQuantum
Group photo for Warwick Quantum launch event
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Warwick Quantum Launch Event is tomorrow! The speakers are very exciting and there will be sun for the BBQ! warwick.ac.uk/WarwickQuant...
Warwick Quantum launch schedule
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Fun and interesting day today demonstrating our diamond magnetometer at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
There’s still time to register for the launch event for Warwick Quantum at the University of Warwick on Friday 11th July. Come for the talks, stay for the BBQ! Non-Warwick folk are just as welcome as Warwick folk 💡 🧪 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/rese...
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Warwick Quantum Launch Event
Warwick Quantum Launch Event
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We invited 16 women and 16 men. We were unlucky that so many women had prior commitments
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We're excited to announce the Launch Event for Warwick Quantum on Friday 11th July in Warwick! WQ is a new interdisciplinary research initiative bringing together the quantum technology teams in the University of Warwick. Sign up here for amazing speakers and BBQ: warwick.ac.uk/WarwickQuant... 🧪💡
Schedule for Warwick Quantum Launch Event
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We got a kitten! :)
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My brother Jake Morley is doing a gig in London Saturday 21 Feb 2026… it’ll be great! jakemorley.com/many-fish-to...
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Many Fish To Fry Live | Jake Morley
Event StatusON SALE95tickets sold250ticket target38%of target38%A massive first few hours. Thank you so much everyone. Last updated: Wed 30 Apr 2025 at 15:02Event StatusON SALEA massive first few hour...
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We’re working on this!
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Oops I always forget the science emojis 🧪 💡 ⚛️
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This work was funded by the STFC and the EPSRC including the new Q-BIOMED Quantum Technology Hub www.qbiomed.org
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We thank the NHS, in particular Stuart Robertson and Joseph Hardwicke at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW). Alex's PhD is funded by the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and we're grateful to Douglas Offin there for useful discussions
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We can detect the magnetic tracer fluid used in breast cancer surgery as you can see in our preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05884 This is great work from first-author Alex Newman, with a beautiful diamond from Matthew Markham and Andrew Edmonds at Element Six
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Endoscopic fiber-coupled diamond magnetometer for cancer surgery
Interoperative measurements using magnetic sensors is a valuable technique in cancer surgery for finding magnetic tracers. Here we present a fiber-coupled nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center magnetometer ca...
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We’ve built an endoscopic diamond magnetometer! With some development, this could help find secondary tumours in breast cancer surgery, as well as helping with laparoscopic and endoscopic operations. Our probe is only 10 mm in diameter: an endoscopic probe has to be 12 mm or less
Photo of a 10-mom-diameter endoscopic magnetometer probe with a ruler for scale
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
…and work where our collaborators have put these into living cells: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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Investigating intracellular heating rates with millikelvin nanothermometry
Nanothermometry within living cells is an important endeavour in physics,as the mechanisms of heat diffusion in such complex and dynamic environments remain poorly understood. In biology, nanothermome...
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This builds on our measurements of the longest spin coherence times in nanodiamonds: doi.org/10.1103/Phys... dx.doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
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Long spin coherence and relaxation times in nanodiamonds milled from polycrystalline ${}^{12}$$\mathrm{C}$ diamond
The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center (NVC) in diamond has been utilized in a wide variety of sensing applications. The long spin coherence and relaxation times (${T}_{2}^{\ensuremath{\ast}}$...
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Postdoc job ads to work with me on biomedical applications of quantum sensors: nitrogen vacancy centres in nanodiamond… please share! One job is for 2 years and the other is for 1 year. This is part of the new UK Quantum Tech Hub called Q-BIOMED
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Research Fellow x2 (110410-0425) - University of Warwick
Title: Research Fellow x2 (110410-0425). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our proposal to the European Strategy for Particle Physics: A Spin-Based Pathway to Testing the Quantum Nature of Gravity indico.cern.ch/event/143985...
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Input to the European Strategy for Particle Physics - 2026 update
These pages contain guidelines for submitting input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Please read the “Guidelines” tab carefully before submitting your input. The website de...
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We’re excited to be one of these new projects funded by UKAEA, developing our diamond magnetometers for fusion diagnostics ccfe.ukaea.uk/creating-sen...
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Creating sensors for extreme fusion energy conditions | UKAEA Fusion Energy
UKAEA awards £3.5m to develop highly specialised sensors for extreme conditions of fusion energy environments Thirteen organisations have secured
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Great to have Angelo Bassi visiting from Italy!
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’m at a superb conference on quantum diamonds in Hungary. Each speaker has 75 minutes but they get lots of questions and discussion throughout so it’s nothing like a lecture conferences.weizmann.ac.il/QDiamond25/
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QDiamond 2025 | QDiamond 25Weizmann Institute of Science
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our new paper is out: “On the Road with a Diamond Magnetometer”… I drove the van while Stuart Graham measured the magnetic field using a diamond! This could be useful for navigation using a magnetic map. The paper is free to download for 50 days authors.elsevier.com/c/1kTj53IYYk...
Photo of Alex Newman and Stuart Graham with a diamond magnetometer in the back of a van
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Ah yes… I won’t issue a formal retraction of my post but merely an erratum: I accidentally claimed too much!
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The best Lego set ever: the solar system. My youngest built it but it would look good at a university open day for an Astro degree
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Veritasium @veritasium.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Rainbows are way more fascinating than you think www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Gf...
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You’re Probably Wrong About Rainbows
YouTube video by Veritasium
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Great snowboarding the last week
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Very interesting discussions about testing quantum gravity with @benstickler.bsky.social @nadine-meyer.bsky.social et al
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I’m in Okinawa, Japan, for the exciting Schrödinger Cat workshop organised by Jason Twamley at OIST. We had a nice swim in the sea too groups.oist.jp/qmech/program
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I forgot the science feed emoji 🧪
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Here are other views of the staircase
Top view of Lego impossible staircase showing that it is actually possibleSide view of Lego impossible staircase
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
…and my daughter’s Lego impossible staircase: to make this look good I had to take the photo from an upstairs window so the blocks look the same size whether they are close to you or not
Impossible staircase made with Lego in 2020
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
…and my Lego tensegrity thing
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
…like my 2020 Lego LIGO
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A Chladni plate is better with Lego continuing my quest to make all experiments better with Lego
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hi Manuel, I’m a physics prof building quantum science and tech with nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/phys...
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
… pretending that we’re carbon atoms in diamond
Morley group photo Autumn 2024 with people pretending to be atoms in diamond
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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We got the first snow of the year today which reminded me to post these group photos taken a few weeks back
Morley group photo Autumn 2024
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