Jonathan P. Dowling

Jonathan P. Dowling

Born	Smithtown, New York
Residence	United States
Nationality	Ireland United States
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Louisiana State University
Alma mater	University of Colorado at Boulder
Doctoral advisor	Asim Orhan Barut
Doctoral students	Argenis DaSilva, Ryan T. Glasser, Sean D. Huver, Kebei Jiang, Jonathan P. Olson, Stephan J. Olson, William N. Plick, Chris D. Richardson, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Bhaskar Roy Bardhan.
Known for	Quantum Optics, Quantum technology
Notable awards	Willis Lamb Medal, NASA Space Act Award, US Army Research & Development Achievement Award

Jonathan P. Dowling is an Irish-American Co-Director of the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, and also a Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, both at Louisiana State University. He is known for his work on quantum technology, particularly for exploiting quantum entanglement (in the form of a NOON state) for applications to quantum metrology, quantum sensing, and quantum imaging (particularly as the inventor of quantum lithography). He has also made contributions to quantum information theory, the field of photonic crystals, and the foundations of quantum electrodynamics. Dowling is one of the founders of the US Government program in quantum information processing.

Jonathan P. Dowling holds dual citizenship from Ireland and the USA. He obtained his BSc in Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and then attended graduate school at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he obtained a MSc in Applied Mathematics, a MSc in Physics, and finally a PhD in Mathematical Physics; his advisor was Asim Orhan Barut. He then moved to the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics as a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Herbert Walther where he also collaborated with Marlan Scully. After that, he joined the quantum optics group of Charles M. Bowden at United States Army Aviation and Missile Command in Huntsville, Alabama, as a United States National Research Council Post-Doctoral Research Associate, where he was eventually promoted to Research Physicist of the United States Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center. After this, he moved to take a position as Research Scientist at the Senior Level in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was promoted to Group Supervisor and Principal Scientist of this JPL group. After this position, he moved to Louisiana State University to take up his current posts there.