PhD Studentship: Quantum Sensing, Imaging and Timing

This specific project, with Prof. Michael Holynski at University of Birmingham, is on novel momentum separation and scaling schemes for atom interferometry. It will form part of QuSIT's Underground Infrastructure work package.

This is an opportunity to join a cohort of post-graduate researchers working within a large research consortium delivering transformative advancements across multiple sectors, including healthcare, infrastructure, transportation, environmental sustainability and security. These technologies make seeing the invisible possible: the inside workings of our brains, the infrastructure buried beneath our feet, the polluting gases in the air around us, the cancers lurking in our tissue or the drones in our crowded skies. These are some of the challenges we are poised to address. At the heart of QuSIT is a world-leading and diverse team of 45 investigators, comprising both emerging talents and seasoned experts. Their impressive academic track record is complemented by a shared commitment to translate innovation from the laboratory to address real-world challenges. Our researchers have a history of licensing technology to industry and launching their own ventures. QuSIT is supported by companies and other end-users many of which have made significant investments. These include BT, BAE Systems, Department for Transport, Great Ormond Street Hospital, National Grid, National Physical Laboratory, Ordnance Survey and Severn Trent Water.

QuSIT, as one of the five UK National Quantum Technology Hubs, offers a unique PhD experience interfacing academic and industry spheres at the starting point of our postgraduate researchers’ careers. Each postgraduate researcher will be based and supervised at one of QuSIT’s partner institutions but will also be part of a national cohort, creating the next generation of research leaders in quantum technology.

QuSIT’s bespoke graduate support programme will feature options including monthly workshops, industrial internships to broaden experiences, an entrepreneurial accelerator programme and an annual residential summer school to learn both new technical and transferable skills.

As a first step towards applying, please submit an expression of interest at https://qusit.org/develop-your-career-with-qusit/ 

Funding notes:

This project, and others within the QuSIT consortium, will be co-funded by industry and an enhanced stipend may be available.

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