Gurpreet Kaur Gulati

• Technical Operation Management, Team Management, Technical budget management
• Responsibility: I am leading a team of 9 technical professionals from two different schools (School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and School of Engineering), Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. My role is to provide specialist technical advice, support, and assistance to academic staff and students - ensuring effective and sustainable delivery of high-quality research, learning & teaching, outreach and engagement outcomes. This role included:
• Managing, and maintaining technical facilities, teaching labs, research labs and laboratory assets.
• Efficient in Relocation buildings and setting up new research and teaching labs
• Technical operations budget, expenditure, and funding applications.
• Managing teaching laboratory operations and casual academic staff.
• Managing the team by having regular team meetings and having open discussions
• Setting up the team’s annual goals in their performance and review, reviewing/analysing the team’s performance during one-on-one coaching sessions.
• Recruiting new staff members by identifying the need to increase the resources and to increase the flexibility in the team.
• Designing and improving Faculty processes related to laboratory management and WHS
• Resource and space development, allocation and planning
• Laboratory infrastructure project management, and laboratory design
• Planning and implementing strategic initiatives to benefit the school
• Leading workplace health and safety for teaching and research laboratories
• WHS committee member and co-chair
• Coordination and delivery of science outreach to school students and the wider community.

• Manager: Michelle Simmons
• Responsibility: I worked at Silicon Quantum computing company, a spinoff company, led by Prof. Michelle Simmons. Managed and led the research projects: Worked on building Australia’s first 10-qubit quantum computer prototype.
• Maintained and managed laboratories and essential complex equipment like cryogenic dilution refrigerators in a research based environment.
• Procurement of essential equipment to smoothly run laboratory and managed R&D projects in partnership with stakeholders in industry and academia.
• Documented high-level risks by doing SWOT analysis, and written SOPs, manuals, and technical reports.
• Co-supervised PhD and master’s students
• Member of WORK, HEALTH AND SAFETY (WHS) of CQC2T, UNSW: Management of health and safety of everyone in the workplace.

• Responsibility: Worked on a time-constrained project to build a compact (< 50cc) and low-power mercury (< 200mW) ion clock for DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency, USA). Importance of the project: The deep-space missions and international space stations (ISS) are going to hugely benefitted from such onboard portable atomic clocks that can save valuable antenna usage at Deep Space Network (DSN) sites and can be extremely cost-effective. A similar atomic clock is already operating in the International Space Station.
• Initiated, designed and successfully finished the first phase of the project.
• Awarded as an outstanding performance (Team) for completing the first phase, satisfying all the metrics and pushing the project to get successful funding for the next two years from DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency, USA).
• Worked closely with a team of top-notch engineers and scientists in a competitive environment with a strict time-bound deadlines.

Responsibility: I was a part of Quantum Technology Hub, a collaborative initiative to unite quantum laboratories across United Kingdom to deliver devices exploiting quantum physics for mutual benefit.