Creating the next generation of quantum leaders

Develop your career with QuSIT

Over our 5-year programme, in collaboration with our industrial partners, we aim to recruit 50 PhD studentships in total. 


Postgraduate researchers within QuSIT will be able to undertake research within the Hub’s core programme, working on inventing new quantum technologies and also taking these technologies into application. 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.

Current PhD opportunities

Below is a list of current and upcoming PhD opportunities supported by QuSIT. Please refer to each opportunity listing for full eligibility criteria.

To ensure you don’t miss any future announcements, student recruitment events and PhD opportunities, complete our QuSIT PhD Expressions of Interest 2026 Form to join our dedicated mailing list.

Our research and community

Our Hub community comprises world-leading interdisciplinary experts from 11 different universities and organisations.
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Read more about all the different technologies we are developing with the help of our Hub community.

Testimonials

Read more from our former postgraduate research community.
“The level of confidence I have in being able to talk about my work is hugely down to the fact that the QuantIC team have put in a lot of faith in me to represent them at events. My involvement with QuantIC was a big turning point for my career. The belief they had in me to deliver these results and present them gave me a huge confidence boost and really opened my eyes to the possibility that I could continue in academia. QuantIC have given me opportunities to accelerate my career through engagement with the wider quantum community, as well as directly supporting me through the QuantIC Doctoral Prize.”
Dr Emma Pearce
Postgraduate Researcher,
Humbold University, Berlin
“My research during QuantIC involved building unusual infrared cameras that could see through or reveal invisible gases and developing 3D cameras that could more efficiently map surfaces with millimetre accuracy at long range. These cameras and their impressive images allowed me to travel the world to showcase events and science festivals and entertain large audiences of scientists, industry leaders, politicians, children and even UK astronaut Tim Peake. I feel very privileged to have had these experiences which helped develop me into an effective communicator and has helped in my career leading large teams of engineers and interacting with important customers.”
Dr Matt Edgar
Principal Engineer,
Integrated Graphene