Matthew D. Shaw

Matthew D. Shaw received the Ph.D. degree in physics. He is currently a Supervisor with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Superconducting Materials and Devices Group. Since 2012, he has been leading the development of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with JPL. His research interests include superconducting detectors, free-space optical communication, quantum communication, and applications of time resolved single photon counting for dark matter detection, remote sensing, and astronomy.