After five days of exciting science, with 35 speakers, 20 video-posters and >850 registered participants, MLQ2021 is now over. If you have missed it, don’t panic: most of the talks have been recorded and are available on our YouTube channel.

Only a few days left to register, before the conference starts. We have a list of outstanding tutorials, invited and contributed talks! Check in out on https://mlq2021.org/

After a lot of hard work and a successful viva, Raphael Picard is now a Doctor! Congratulations Raphael! Team celebrations were slightly different this year with two teams competing to complete an online escape room challenge in the fastest time – well done everyone, much fun was had by all!

On September 1st, 2020, the new European FET-Open project QUROPE has kicked off. Its ambitious goal is to build a quantum repeater architecture using on-demand photonic entanglement (find out more at https://www.qurope-team.eu/ or https://twitter.com/qurope_eu). The quantum photonic lab is a partner of the QUROPE consortium and will be working to develop a broadband solid-state quantum…

We are organising an online conference about machine learning and advanced signal processing applied to quantum technology: www.mlq2021.org. We are accepting submissions – looking forward to exciting contributions!

Congratulations to Zak who has been chosen as the winner of the EPS Postgraduate Research 2nd Year Prize!! – Well done Zak, it’s well deserved!

Dan will be joining us straight after finishing his Masters in Chemistry with Materials and Nanotechnology here at Heriot-Watt University. During his PhD he will be working on twisted quantum heterostructures made from 2D materials. Welcome to the group Dan!

Two more post-docs are joining us this week. Christiaan Bekker, from the University of Queensland, will be working on adaptive quantum sensing. Pasqule Cilibrizzi, from Berkeley, will strengthen our activities on SiC quantum devices. Welcome both!

Francesco Graffitti is joining us right after finishing his PhD in experimental quantum optics and quantum information at Heriot-Watt University. He’ll be working on frequency conversion to interface solid-state quantum emitters with quantum networks – welcome to the group Francesco!

Congratulations Mauro and Hyeonjun on the publication of your paper ‘Spin–layer locking of interlayer excitons trapped in moiré potentials‘ in Nature Materials: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-0687-7