Jacques Carolan

Jacques Carolan is a founding Programme Director at ARIA and Honorary Associate Professor at UCL.

He is an applied physicist by training, having spent 10 years developing photonic technologies to accelerate quantum and classical computing, initially at MIT and then at the Niels Bohr Institute. He then pivoted into systems neuroscience, where he developed optical technologies for high-speed, large-scale interrogation of neural circuits in vivo at UCL. At ARIA, Jacques leads the Precision Neurotechnologies programme which is developing next-generation circuit-level tools to help understand and repair the human brain. He completed his PhD at the University of Bristol in 2015. Jacques has been awarded a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship, a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship and attended the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting.