Shining sun and blue sky for our group hike to the top of Ben Vrackie! The calories lost were soon compensated by a great dinner together, with adequate beer supply.

Daniel White successfully defended his PhD today, with a thesis on “Novel Quantum Emitters for Integrated Quantum Photonics”. Congratulations Daniel, and all the best with your new career as a data scientist!

Want to study the exotic physics of correlated electrons in 2D materials with a quantum sensor? There’s a great PhD opportunity waiting for you, which includes a 9 month stay at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Please email Cristian asap for more info (UK nationals only)

Zak Koong successfully defended his PhD this morning, with a thesis on “Coherent Light-Matter Interaction in Semiconductor Quantum Dots”. Congratulations Zak, and all the best for the next steps in your career! Zak will be next taking up a post-doctoral position in Innsbruck, to work on trapped ions.

Stewart Wallace is one of the winners of the IPAQS Postgraduate Research Prize for 2021 for his poster on “Learning Quantum Systems from Experimental Data”. Congratulations Stewart, looking forward to see a couple of nice papers on this topic!

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to act as Experimental Officer for a new unique facility that will implement NV-magnetometry down to mK temperatures, to study quantum materials. This position combines the roles of supporting multiple research projects by different academic users and pursuing own research. If interested, please contact Cristian (c.bonato@hw.ac.uk) as soon…

If you are interested in developing quantum repeaters in SiC, integrating spintronics, photonics and electronics on a single chip please get in touch with Cristian (c.bonato@hw.ac.uk) asap!

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/

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!