Mike Trigatzis

Mike is a Higher Scientist in the National Physical Laboratory's (NPL) atomic clocks & sensors group. He joined NPL in late 2023 and has been working on miniaturising cold ion atomic clocks.

He received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2020. For his PhD, Mike worked on laser cooling a cryogenic beam of YbF molecules for testing fundamental physics.

Before joining NPL, Mike worked at Teledyne e2v as a Project Science Lead, primarily on cold atom inertial sensors. He was also briefly involved in environmental testing of the MINAC clocks, which were initially developed by NPL, as well as two short projects developing CMOS sensors for earth observation.

Areas of interest:

• Miniaturising cold atom/ion technologies

• Optical atomic clocks

• Holdover clocks

• Atom interferometry

• Low-energy tests of fundamental physics

Key publications

• CASPA-ADM: a mission concept for observing thermospheric mass density.
  C. Siemes, S. Maddox, O. Carraz, T. Cross, S. George, J. van den Ijssel, M. Kiss-Toth, M. Pastena, I. Riou, M. Salter, H. Sweeney, M. Trigatzis, T. Valenzuela and P. Visser, CEAS Space Journal 14, 637 (2022)
   
• An ultracold molecular beam for testing fundamental physics.
  X. Alauze, J. Lim, M. A. Trigatzis, S. Swarbrick, F. J. Collings, N. J. Fitch, B. E. Sauer and M. R. Tarbutt, Quantum Science and Technology 6, 044005 (2021)
   
• Laser Cooled YbF Molecules for Measuring the Electron’s Electric Dipole Moment.
  J. Lim, J. R. Almond, M. A. Trigatzis, J. A. Devlin, N. J. Fitch, B. E. Sauer, M. R. Tarbutt, and E. A. Hinds, Physical Review Letters 120, 123201 (2018)