Rate My Professor Mete Atatüre

Mete Atatüre is Head of the Cavendish Laboratory and Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1996 from Bilkent University Physics Department in Turkey. He completed his PhD studies at the Quantum Imaging Laboratory at Boston University in 2002. From 2002 to 2007, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Quantum Photonics Group at ETH Zurich. He joined the Cavendish Laboratory in June 2007 as a University Lecturer, was promoted to a Readership in 2011 and to a Professorship in 2015. He has served as Head of the Department of Physics since 2023. Atatüre is a Fellow, Director of Studies and Tutor at St. John’s College, Cambridge. His research focuses on light-matter quantum interfaces in solids for quantum network hardware, optics of atomically thin quantum devices and emergent many-body physics based on heterostructures, and nanoscale quantum sensing and imaging for novel phenomena and materials discovery. He leads the Quantum Optical Materials and Systems group and is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Nu Quantum Ltd. Atatüre is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, Academia Europaea and the Turkish Science Academy. He received the IoP 2020 Thomas Young Medal and the 2024 Koç University Rahmi Science Medal. He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow of Sabancı University and dedicates time to science communication and public engagement.