We have several funded PhD positions available, through Heriot-Watt’s own PhD School, or through the new Centre for Doctoral Training in “Applied Quantum Technologues” (https://www.aqt.ac.uk/). Get in touch if you are interested!

We have several PhD positions available! One of them, related to the new EU project QuSPARC on a SiC spin-based quantum architecture, will start from April 2025. For other positions to start in September/October 2025, please see our “Openings” tab and get in touch asap!

Stewart Wallace successfully defended his PhD, with good satisfaction of the two examiners Evert van Nieuwenburg and Fabio Biancalana. Well done Stewart, and good luck with your future career! Stewart’s untold goal was to replace open quantum system theorists with machines – did he pull it off? If you’re curious, keep an eye an arXiv…

We have several openings: one post-doc and one (international) PhD student positions on SiC quantum devices for quantum networking, and one post-doc position on novel ML-enhanced protocols for bio/chemical quantum sensing – all positions are part of large UK or EU collaborations on quantum technology. Get in touch with Cristian Bonato asap! More details in…

Under a heavy rain, our QPL team completed the Edinburgh Half Marathon! Some witnesses report Nick was also there, but was just too fast to be caught on camera in the photo below

Federico Belliardo is joining us from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Federico has developed model-aware reinforcement learning methods to optimise quantum sensors, and will be collaborating with experimentalists to implement them in the lab. Borja Varona Uriarte is a PhD student in Bilbao, working with Jorge Casanova: he is joining us for a couple…

Muhammad was one of the awardees for the “Distinguished Student Program” at this year’s APS March Meeting in Minneapolis! Congratulations, wonderful news!

The first piece of equipment of our new Quantum Magnetometry facility has just been installed and successfully tested! A Bluefors dilution refrigerator will enable us to study complex materials and heterostructures and develop quantum technologies at milli-kelvin temperatures. Looking forward to learning some exciting new physics!

Muhammad (Junaid) has successfully defended his viva, after discussing his work with the examiners, Tim Taminiau from QuTech (Delft) and Margherita Mazzera. After some well-deserved partying, and a research visit to Stuttgart, he’s going to lead work at our Quantum Magnetometry facility: stay tuned for more exciting results to come!

Brian has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced grant by the European Reseach Council to assemble complex materials single sheet of atoms by single sheet of atoms. This will open the possibility to design the behaviour of electrons very precisely, to create novel devices not otherwise possible. Looking forward to much exciting physics over the…