Dastan Khalid, Chair of the MNS Department

Dastan Khalid earned his B.S. in Physics from King’s College London and his M.S. in Medical Physics from University College London. He obtained his Ph.D. in Atomic Physics as part of a split-site program between University of Leeds and University of Sulaimani. While at Leeds, he carried out all of his research with the Experimental Quantum Information Group at the Physics and Astronomy Department. Dastan’s involvement in academic work includes teaching at the undergraduate level at various national and international universities and, he is currently a MInstP with the Institute of Physics (IoP), along with members of other numerous international scientific organizations such as SPIE, EMS, and RMS. His research interest is in the fields of atom-light interaction, coherent control, magnetometery, and precision measurement.