Max Tamussino

Max joined NPL in 2022 and is part of the Optical Frequency Metrology group within the Time & Frequency department. He specialises in FPGA-based high-performance measurement and signal processing electronics. His work includes the development of a range of custom FPGA IP for high-speed data processing, embedded driver software, Python client software and data analysis tools. This is currently being used in the detection of environmental and seismic events, which are monitored using intercontinental seafloor optical fibres within the global telecommunications infrastructure.  The FPGA-based hardware is also being incorporated into the experimental control of an ytterbium optical lattice clock at NPL. 

Max graduated with a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from TU Vienna (2020) and then completed his MSc in Advanced Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary University of London (2021). Before joining NPL, he worked at PIDSO Propagation Ideas & Solutions as a Junior Electronics Engineer and at Queen Mary University of London as a Research Assistant in the Robotic Systems Research Group.

Areas of interest 

• Digital architecture and signal processing implementations in FPGAs, focusing on acquisition and measurement 
• Electronics development for optical frequency metrology 
• Seismic and environmental detection in intercontinental fibre links 

Key publications 

• Characterisation of the optical response to seismic waves of submarine telecommunications cables with distributed and integrated fibre-optic sensing 
  David M. Fairweather, Max Tamussino, Ali Masoudi, Zitong Feng, Richard Barham, Neil Parkin, David Cornelius, Gilberto Brambilla, Andrew Curtis and Giuseppe Marra 
  Nature Sci. Rep. 14, 31843 (2024) 

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