A #quantum light source that’s travelling across 12 countries in Europe with UNESCO has arrived at Heriot-Watt University – its only #Scottish stop on the tour! 🌠 🌍 We’re excited to share that our Edinburgh campus is hosting the QuanTour – which aims to raise interest in quantum physics ahead of next year’s UNESCO International…

Recently Dr Muhammad, Fred and Finley, along with Dr Will McCutcheon and Annameng Mariana Ma from the BBQLab, had the opportunity to present their work and discuss quantum science with the UK Minister for Science, Lord Vallance, at the University of Edinburgh. They each presented a poster and spoke with the minister directly, providing Lord…

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…

Dafydd is joining as a new PhD student working on the application of machine learning to quantum sensing, as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in “Sensing, Processing, and AI for Defence and Security” (SPADS), and in collaboration with Erik Gauger and Yoann Altman. Welcome to Heriot-Watt Dafydd!

Congratulations to Dr Nicholas Werren for being one of only seven winners of the prestigious British Science Association’s Award Lecture series for 2024! The Award Lecturers are a cohort of UK-based, early career researchers who are being recognised for cutting-edge work in their field and their commitment to public engagement efforts, furthering the reach of…

A great day was had at our recent QPL Group Away Day 2024 – this year we took a boat tour along the Firth of Forth under the magnificent Forth Bridges and spotted some lazy looking, but frankly enormous, seals. The braver ones amongst us even stood outside in the bracing winds!

Huge congratulations to Dr Margherita Mazzera on her promotion to full Professor – well deserved Prof Margherita!!

Welcome to Dr Tobias Henksmeier who is joining us as a Visiting Scholar until the end of the year. As an expert in materials science he will be implementing a new joint project with a group from Paderborne University – welcome to Heriot-Watt and sunny Scotland Tobias!

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…