Sonja Franke-Arnold is a Scottish-German[1] physicist specialising in quantum optics,[2] atom optics,[2] structured light,[3] and the orbital angular momentum of light.
[2] She is a professor at the University of Glasgow, where she holds the Chair of Quantum Optics.
[4] Franke-Arnold has a master's degree (MPhil) from the University of Strathclyde, received in 1994,[5] after going to Strathclyde from the University of Hannover through the European Mobility Scheme for Physics Students of the European Physical Society.
[5] She chairs the International Network on Acausal Quantum Technologies of the University of Glasgow School of Physics & Astronomy.
[4] Franke-Arnold is married to Aidan S. Arnold,[7] a physicist from New Zealand who works as a reader in physics at the University of Strathclyde.