Benjamin Butler is a theoretical physicist currently studying for his PhD at the University of Glasgow. He is interested generally in theories of quantum light-matter interactions, quantum optics, and the regimes in which classical and quantum physics become blurred.Benjamin completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds in 2019, with an MPhys project which investigated the role of electromagnetic potentials in quantum theory, from canonical quantisation techniques to the Aharonov-Bohm effect. His PhD is being completed in the Quantum Theory group at Glasgow under the supervision of Dr Jörg Götte and Dr Stephen Barnett. His research focuses on structured light, optical angular momentum, and the mechanical degrees of freedom of light.
