Our large network of world-class industrial and academic partners understand the value of every element of this programme and have helped with its design.

With a hands-on, collaborative role, the partners dramatically enhance the training experience, providing knowledge and skills well beyond that typically available in a PhD programme.

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Industry partners

The Centre is working with a wide range of industrial partners to support students in developing engineering know-how as well as an in-depth understanding of quantum information science to deliver world changing quantum technologies including:

• BAE Systems
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl), UK
• D-Wave Systems
• Google
• Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• ID Quantique
• Microsoft
• NASA
• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
• National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
• Nokia
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL ), UK
• Oclaro
• QuintessenceLabs
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Single Quantum BV

Academic partners

Our group of leading academic partners from the UK and across the world will give guest lectures and seminars, co-supervise students and host student secondments, providing access to world-class research facilities and complementary expertise that will augment the students’ training experience.