EPSRC Quantum Technologies Career Acceleration Fellowships

King’s School London welcomes expressions of curiosity from Early Profession Researchers (ECRs) who want to apply for an EPSRC Quantum Applied sciences Profession Acceleration Fellowship (QTCAF) with King’s as their host organisation. Profitable candidates can be becoming a member of us at an thrilling time as we develop our analysis in quantum applied sciences and different key priorities in interdisciplinary science. This strategic development is underpinned by a serious programme of funding which can allow 60 new educational appointments throughout in biology, chemistry, arithmetic and physics.

The deadline for receipt of expressions of curiosity is 5pm on Tuesday twenty seventh February 2024; see particulars under.

Concerning the scheme

The EPSRC QTCAF scheme is open to candidates who both maintain a related PhD or have equal analysis expertise or coaching. It supplies a 3 – 5 years fellowship to handle analysis and innovation challenges predominantly inside quantum applied sciences. This can be a broad analysis space and consists of the spectrum of quantum computing, sensing, timing, imaging and communications, engineering and underpinning science. The QTCAF covers prices together with the man’s time, employees prices, consumables, journey and subsistence, personalised profession growth actions, actions to drive entrepreneurship and innovation, and tools (as much as £400k per merchandise). Please word that EPSRC doesn’t fund charges or stipends for postgraduate college students by this scheme.

These fellowships are for early profession researchers who haven’t but secured analysis or innovation independence, for instance, by securing funding geared toward this profession stage or managing a big programme of analysis. There isn’t any requirement concerning the size of postdoctoral expertise or trade work expertise to be thought-about an early profession researcher. The definition of early profession researchers spans present postdoctoral researchers to those that have lately been appointed to their first educational place.

Full particulars of the scheme will be discovered right here: https://www.ukri.org/alternative/epsrc-quantum-technologies-career-acceleration-fellowships/ .

About King’s School London

King’s School London is an internationally famend college delivering distinctive schooling and world-leading analysis within the coronary heart of the UK’s capital. We’re delivering a serious programme of strategic funding in schooling, analysis, area and infrastructure to drive ahead sustainable and substantial development within the core scientific disciplines of biology, chemistry, arithmetic and physics. As a part of this programme, over 60 new educational employees can be recruited to construct on King’s scientific excellence and allow main development in strategic precedence areas equivalent to quantum applied sciences. The School has a protracted custom of supporting fellowship holders’ careers, each throughout and after the fellowship, and we might count on to nominate profitable Fellows to open-ended educational positions by the top of the Fellowship, topic to passable efficiency and interview.

Chosen candidates can be absolutely supported to develop their software by King’s and could have entry to a devoted educational mentor at King’s, and to particular person recommendation and assist from the King’s analysis growth crew.

We welcome EoIs in any space of quantum applied sciences as set out within the EPSRC name. EoIs in quantum computing, sensing, timing, imaging and communications, and engineering are notably welcome.

Expressions of curiosity

King’s School London has an inner course of for choosing candidates to this scheme.

These all in favour of making use of for a Quantum Applied sciences Profession Acceleration Fellowship at King’s School London ought to e mail [email protected] with the next particulars:

• Your full title
• Your present analysis standing and affiliation
• A CV (2pp)
• A Case for Assist (2-4 pages), together with;
  • The imaginative and prescient in your Fellowship
  • The impression you count on your Fellowship to have within the Quantum Applied sciences panorama.
  • An overview of the proposed mission, together with workplan. This should embrace particulars of a profession growth work bundle as outlined in EPSRC’s steering.
  • Your plans for trade engagement to take your analysis nearer to commercialisation.
  • Cause for selecting King’s because the host establishment.
• Affirmation of your match to the eligibility standards

Purposes have to be acquired by 5pm on Tuesday twenty seventh February 2024 on the newest. In case you have any queries in regards to the course of or your eligibility, please e mail Mike Ward ([email protected] ) or Cecilia Rossiter ([email protected] ). After evaluation by King’s, chosen candidates can be invited to develop a full software with King’s as their host organisation for submission to EPSRC.