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Join Us - Current Opportunities

• Undergraduate students through Honours projects, vacation research projects, and taste of research projects.
  Many of our undergraduate students end up as authors on research papers!
• PhD candidates
• Postdoctoral Research Fellows

News (more updates on @QEDUNSW)

16 Mar 2025

Undergraduate student Pavitraa Hathi (supported by a CSIRO Honours scholarship) and PhD student Isaac Vorreiter are in California at the American Physical Society's March Meeting - the largest physics research conference in the world, with over 14,000 attendees from all disciplines of physics.

24 Feb 2025

It's really nice when an undergraduate student does a research project with us and then writes a full research paper! In https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21173 Jonathan Wendoloski et al report record high mobilities in silicon MOS devices made by our collaborators at imec, as well as some cool physics that we discovered thanks to the team at Diraq. A wonderful team effort, made possible by a great group of postdocs who support our Honours students (shout out to Joseph Hillier, Scott Liles, Matthew Rendell and Yoni Ashlea Alava). A big thank you to the Australian Research Council (ARC), Diraq and imec for supporting this work.

3 Sept 2024

The outstanding Scott Liles, with undergraduate summer student Daniel Halverson, and a team involving UNSW experimentalists and theorists, visitor Rafael S. Eggli from the University of Basel, in close collaboration with Andrew Dzurak's team at Diraq, demonstrated a high speed silicon qubit based on spin-3/2 holes, fabricated using an industry compatible planar CMOS approach. A big thank you to the Australian Research Council (ARC) and Diraq for supporting this work, published in Nature Communications: A singlet-triplet hole-spin qubit in MOS silicon

18 Mar 2024

Congratulations to Jonathan Wendoloski on being awarded the School of Physics Prize for 4th Year Theoretical Physics - well done Jono!

12 Feb 2024

Congratulations to Daniel Halverson and Pavitraa Hathi on being awarded $15,000 CSIRO Honours Student Scholarships to undertake research projects in the QED group.

26 Aug 2023

We have multiple undergraduate research projects available for highly motivated students to come and see what it is like to work in a cutting edge research laboratory, on topics ranginfg from experimental studies of the Quantum Hall effect at ultra-low temperatures through to artificial quantum matter and high speed operation of spin qubits. Summer vacation scholarships are available, as well as in-term Taste of Research projects. We are especially encouraging women to apply. Please see QedJoinUs for details.

27 July 2023

Congratulations to Scott Liles and Joe Hiller on being awarded a UNSW Faculty of Science Translation Impact Seed grant to develop new hardware for controlling ultra-fast hole spin qubits, with partner Diraq.

4 July 2023

Our latest collaboration with the amazing theory teams at UNSW is now on the preprint archive: Abhikbrata Sarkar, Zhanning Wang, et al, Electrical operation of planar Ge hole spin qubits in an in-plane magnetic field https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01451

9 May 2023

Prof Hamilton is awarded a $3.8M Inaugural Industry Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council, to work with industry partner Diraq on developing silicon CMOS quantum computer technology that uses both electrons and holes. Although it's called a fellowship, it is really recognition of the amazing team at UNSW, and all our collaborators.

15 Mar 2023

Congratulations to Aaquib Shamim, winner of the $500 People’s Choice Award, for his poster "Pauli Spin Blockade and g-factor Anisotropy in Hole Si CMOS Double Quantum Dot" at the Sydney Quantum Academy's 'Quantum Australia' conference https://twitter.com/QEDUNSW/status/1633664732111720448?s=20.