Paul Griffin is a Professor in the Experimental Quantum Optics and Photonics group at the University of Strathclyde, where he holds the Judith and Harold Rosenberg Chair in Quantum Sensing. At Strathclyde he leads research activities in atomic clocks, atom interferometry, optically-pumped magnetometers, studies of laser-cooled atoms and atomic Bose–Einstein condensates, cold atom platforms as an enabling technology, and the development of space quantum technologies.

Paul has been active throughout the UK’s quantum technology programme, and and was funded through the QT Hub in Sensors and Measurement/Timing through the first two phases of the UKNQTP. In the third phase he is a partner in two hubs: QuSIT - the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Sensing, Imaging, and Timing, and QEPNT – the UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation, and Timing. Within QEPNT he is co-lead for the workpackage on atomic clocks. He is also a work package leader in the EPSRC programme grant “Chip-scale Atomic Systems for a Quantum Navigator,” and is co-lead of the EPSRC International Network on Space Quantum Technologies. He has extensive experience of knowledge exchange and technology transfer.

Paul Griffin received a BSc in Applied Physics from the University of Limerick in 2001, a PhD from Durham University in 2005 for investigations of atoms trapped in far-off-resonant dipole traps, and subsequently held a postdoctoral research position at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, working on coherent control of atomic system before joining the University of Strathclyde in 2008. He has held a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship and a year-long position, funded by a fellowship from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, as a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In 2015 he was awarded a Chancellor's Fellowship at Strathclyde and appointed a lecturer.