| Christian Ospelkaus, Leader | LUH / PTB | Scalable Surface-Electrode Ion Traps; Integrated Microwave and RF Control Elements |
| Amado Bautista-Salvador | LUH / PTB | Scalable Surface-Electrode Ion Traps |
| Andreas Waag | TUBS | Coherent Light Field Control; Nanophotonics for Atom and Ion Manipulation; Hybrid integration of GaN LEDs with conductive substrates |
| Mayra Garcés-Schröder | TUBS | Nanophotonics for Atom and Ion Manipulation |
| Klaas Strempel | TUBS | Nanophotonics for Atom and Ion Manipulation |
| Stefanie Kroker | PTB / TUBS | Complex Coupled High Index Waveguide Arrays ; Photonic Nanomaterials in the Strong Optomechanical Coupling Regime |
| Liam Shelling-Neto | PTB / TUBS | Complex Coupled High Index Waveguide Arrays |
| Tanja Mehlstäubler | PTB / LUH | Dynamics of ion Coulomb Crystals; Integrated Chip Traps and Optical Components |
| Daniel Bennett | PTB | Integrated Chip Traps and Optical Components |
| Dietmar Kracht | LZH | Advanced Light Sources; Precision Additive Manufacturing of Quantum Sensors; High power solid-state single frequency amplifiers |
| Christian Zander / Christian Hoff | LZH | Precision Additive Manufacturing of Quantum Sensors |
| Boris Chichkov | LUH | Nanoscale Materials Processing |
| Ulf Hinze | LUH | Nanoscale Materials Processing |
| New W1 | TUBS | Photonic Electronic Hybrid Integration |
| Marc Christopher Wurz | LUH | Development of compact vacuum pumps, pressure measruement devices and miniaturized Rb sources; Atom-Chip Based Gravimeters and Inertial Sensors |
| Alexander Kassner | LUH | Atom-Chip Based Gravimeters and Inertial Sensors |
| Ernst M. Rasel | LUH | Quantum Gravimeters; Atom-Chip Based Gravimeters and Inertial Sensors |
| Milutin Kovacev | LUH | Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities and High-Harmonic Generation |
| Philip Mosel | LUH | Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities and High-Harmonic Generation |
