Quantum Technologies span a huge variety of physical systems, mechanisms and applications. They draw upon a vast range of disciplines across engineering, mathematics and the physical sciences and, like any fledgling new technology, will need the knowledge, insight, imagination and sheer effort of hundreds or thousands of researchers and technologists to make them a practical reality. In both industry and academia, we need to bring together people of all talents, backgrounds and approaches to work as a community on these exciting but demanding challenges.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering emphasizes the importance of building a team of diverse talents, and that approach applies within the CDT itself. We welcome applications not only from graduates in subjects across the physical sciences, engineering and mathematics, but from people who have gained equivalent experience from careers in industry and the armed services, and from people who wish to make a change of career direction or return after a work or study break. We offer both full-time and part-time programmes, flexible study options, and small bursaries to help students with caring responsibilities.

Quantum Mechanics provides an inspiration through its complementary but unified understanding of waves and particles, bosons and fermions, individual quantization and collective phenomena. More poetically:

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow, and its beauty is, it’s made of many colours and hues all sitting together in perfect harmony!  We are all different, yet united in our desire for happiness, belonging, meaning, making a difference, ‘living a life less ordinary’. We all face challenges and joys that come with being alive – knowing who we are, living meaningful relationships and finding our place in the world. Our diversity is rooted in a deeper unity.

Fr Seamus Madigan, former Head Chaplain, Irish Defence Forces