Dr. Cillian McPolin is a photonics technologist at Digital Catapult, driving forward the adoption of photonics and nanotechnology. Cillian received his MSci and PhD degrees in physics from Queen’s University Belfast and King’s College London, respectively, before undertaking research at King’s and Imperial College London, and subsequently joining Digital Catapult. His publications cover research topics such as nanophotonic circuitry, nanoscale light sources, infrared photodetectors and ultrafast optical signal modulation.