May 7, 2021

An interview with a quantum scientist – Dr Zixin Huang, University of Sheffield

Having studied chemistry and physics during her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney, Dr Zixin Huang undertook a PhD in quantum photonics at the same institution, before moving to the University of Sheffield for a postdoctoral position as part of the Quantum Communications Hub. Later on this year, Zixin will be moving on to the Sydney Quantum Academy where […]

April 19, 2021

An interview with a post-quantum cryptographer – Dr Ciara Rafferty, Queen’s University, Belfast

Ciara completed a PhD in applied cryptography at Queen’s University Belfast, focused on the hardware acceleration of fully homomorphic encryption, a type of cryptography which enables computation on encrypted data.  Since completing her PhD, she has held research posts in European research projects, such as the EU H2020 SAFEcrypto project, which focused on practical aspects […]

March 26, 2021

An interview with a theoretical physicist in quantum – Dr Almut Beige, University of Leeds

Dr Almut Beige studied for a PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen, Germany, before holding several different postdoctoral positions including at: Imperial College London; the Max Planck Institute, Munich; and the University of Cambridge. Almut later returned to Imperial College as a lecturer and in 2005 she moved to the University […]

March 8, 2021

An interview with KETS Quantum Security’s Chief Operating Officer – Dr Caroline Clark

After obtaining a PhD in ultrasonic signal processing and subsequently working as a postdoctoral research associate (postdoc for short) at the University of Bristol, Caroline Clark left academia to work as a consultant in the civil nuclear industry. She had a career break when she had children and retrained to become a sports therapist focused […]

February 15, 2021

An interview with a Quantum Computer Scientist – Professor Elham Kashefi

Originally from Iran, computer scientist Elham Kashefi moved to the UK in the year 2000. At the time, she was not very familiar with quantum computing but curiosity got the better of her and she embarked upon a PhD in quantum computing at Imperial College London, in Vlatko Vedral’s quantum optics group. She later undertook […]

January 25, 2021

Archie Jones – a 7-year-old Quantum Reporter!

Archie Jones is incredibly passionate about science and enjoys creating and filming his own science related videos. In November 2020, Archie was encouraged to enter the ITV’s ‘My News in 65’ competition which required entrants to create a 65 second news report about a story important to them, under the themes of ‘happiness’, ‘change’ or […]

January 5, 2021

An interview with a Civil Engineer in quantum – Professor Nicole Metje, University of Birmingham

Having obtained an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Hannover University, Germany, Nicole Metje moved to the UK to undertake a PhD in Civil Engineering with a focus on sediment erosion processes along coastlines. While her original interest was in protecting coastlines, Nicole also had an interest in tunneling and buried infrastructure which ultimately led […]