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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · 27d

Wow impressive :)

National MagLab @nationalmaglab.bsky.social · 27d

"An outstanding accomplishment": The MagLab sets a new world record.
nationalmaglab.org/news-events/...

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

www.qbiomed.org.uk

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Aug 19

…and our paper is here journals.aps.org/prapplied/ab...
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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

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...

journals.aps.org

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Aug 19

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/...

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

www.the-independent.com

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Jul 21

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 · Jul 21

Great postdoc job opportunity to work with Mark Newton, Ben Green and Julie Macpherson

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Quick Check Needed

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Jul 12

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 · Jul 10

The Warwick Quantum Launch Event is tomorrow! The speakers are very exciting and there will be sun for the BBQ!
warwick.ac.uk/WarwickQuant...

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Jul 3

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 · Jul 2

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...

Warwick Quantum Launch Event

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Jun 28

We invited 16 women and 16 men. We were unlucky that so many women had prior commitments

Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Jun 27

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 · May 3

We got a kitten! :)

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Apr 30

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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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 · Apr 18

We’re working on this!

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Apr 17

Oops I always forget the science emojis 🧪 💡 ⚛️

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Apr 17

This work was funded by the STFC and the EPSRC including the new Q-BIOMED Quantum Technology Hub www.qbiomed.org

www.qbiomed.org.uk

www.qbiomed.org

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Apr 17

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 · Apr 17

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

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...

arxiv.org

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Apr 17

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 · Apr 12

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Apr 11

…and work where our collaborators have put these into living cells:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

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...

www.researchsquare.com

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Gavin Morley @gavinmorley.bsky.social · Apr 11

This builds on our measurements of the longest spin coherence times in nanodiamonds:
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 · Apr 11

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

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 · Apr 7

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...

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...

indico.cern.ch

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