Former QT Folk

Dr Raphael Abrahão

Here, 2016–20: PhD Student. There: Postdoctoral Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Fareeha Almas

Here, 2024—2025: Masters student. There: Research Assistant, University of Queensland

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Dr Marcelo Almeida

Here, 2006–2025: Senior Research Fellow. There: Chief Technology Officer, Veriquantix

Dr Joseph Altepeter

Here, 2001: Fulbright Scholar. There: Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office (DSO), DARPA, United States of America

Dr Leonardo Assis

Here, 2018–2021: PhD Student. There: Lecturer, Instituto Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Prof. Alexia Auffèves

Here, 2014: Visiting Professor. There: Professor, Institut NEEL, France and MajuLab, Singapore

Hayden Bellingham

Here, 2024–2025: Honours Student There: To be announced!

Sandhya Bharathkumar

Here, 2024–2025: Masters Student There: To be announced!

Prof. Marco Barbieri

Here, 2006–08: Postdoctoral Fellow There: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, France; now Professor, Roma Tre University, Italy

Dr Tamyka Bell

Here, 2002–03: PhD Student. There: Medical Practitioner, Queensland, Australia

Dr Devon Biggerstaff

Here, 2006–07: Fulbright Scholar, 2011–2015: PhD Student, 2015: Postdoc. There: Data Science Consultant, Keydata

Dr Matthew Broome

Here, 2010–2012: PhD student, 2013: Postdoctoral Fellow. There: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Denmark; now Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia

Dr Jihun Cha

Here, 2020–2024: PhD student. There: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hong Kong, China

Rohan Dalton

Here, 2003–2011: PhD student. There: Data Engineer, Jump Trading LLC, United States of America

Prof. Alessandro Fedrizzi

Here, 2008–2015: Postdoctoral Fellow. There: Professor, Heriot-Watt, UK

Emerald Gaydon

Here, 2023–2024: Honours Student. 2024 winner of Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis. There: Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford

Dr Christina Giarmatzi

Here, 2008–2020: PhD and Postdoctoral Fellow. 2018 winner of Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis. There: Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University

Assoc.-Prof. Alexei Gilchrist

Here, 2001–2007: Senior Research Fellow. There: Reader, Macquarie University, Australia

Dr Geoffrey Gillett

Here, 2009–18: PhD Student. There: Quantum Control Engineer, Quantum Brilliance

Prof. Michael Goggin

Here, 2008, 2010–11, and 2015–16: Visiting Scientist. There: Professor, Truman State University, United States of America

Dr Kaumudibikash Goswami

Here, 2017–21: PhD Student, 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow. 2021 winner of Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis. There: Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Hong Kong, China

Ms Susan Grantham

Here, 2007–11: Laboratory Administrator. There: Administration Manager, BarChip Inc., Australia

Andrew Grosser

Here, 2001: Honours Student. There: Cofounder, CTO @ Sourcetable.com, United States. Also see this nice article in Forbes

Dr Giulio Gualandi

Here, 2025: Visiting PhD Student. There: PhD Student, Politecnico Milano, Italy

Dr Michael Harvey

Here, 2000–06: Unofficial member of the lab. There: Director, New Ventures, Quantum Australia

Stuart Holt

Here, 2001: Honours Student. There: Founder of Nistu Technologies, Hong Kong

Dr Lewis Howard

Here, 2016–2022: PhD student. There: Engineer, Hexagon, Australia

Prof. Thomas Jennewein

Here, 2007 and again in 2008: Visiting Scientist. There: Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Professor Ivan Kassal

Here, 2009: Visitor, 2011–17: Postdoctoral Fellow. There: Professor, University of Sydney, Australia

Dr Michael Kewming

Here, 2017–2020: PhD Student, 2020–21: Postdoctoral Fellow. There: Quantitative Researcher, Propriety Trading Firm, Australia

Prof Paul Kwiat

Here, 2010–11: Visiting Professor. There: John Bardeen Chair in Electrical Engineering and Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

Dr Gregory Kociuba

Here, 1999–2003: PhD Student. There: Water Forecasting System Developer, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

Assoc.-Professor Nathan Langford

Here, 2002–07: PhD Student. There: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, United Kingdom; now Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney

Dr Benjamin Lanyon

Here, 2006–09: PhD Student, 2009: Postdoctoral Scientist. There: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Austria; now Senior Scientist, Institut für Experimental Physik, Austria

Dr Sarah Lau

Here, 2015–20: PhD Student. There: Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia

Dr Tau Bernstorff Lehmann

Here, 2015: Visiting PhD Student. There: PhD Student, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark

Prof. Peter Lodahl

Here, 2013–14: Visiting Professor. There: Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark

Daniel Long

Here, 2024, PhD Student. There: PhD Student, Imperial, UK

Dr Juan Loredo

Here, 2012–16: PhD Student. There: Marie SkÅodowska-Curie Fellow, France; now Head of Research and Development, Sparrow Quantum, Denmark

Sebastian Malewicz

Here, 2019–20: Masters Student, 2021–25: PhD Student. There: Postdoctoral Scientist

Dr Casey Myers

Here, 2006–08: PhD Student, 2008–09: Postdoctoral Scientist. There: Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia, Australia

Aleksandrina Nikolova

Here, 2015–18: PhD Student. There: Penetration tester, Aura Information Security, New Zealand

Prof. Jeremy O'Brien

Here, 2001–06: Senior Research Fellow. There: CEO and Co-Founder, PsiQuantum.

James Owens

Here, 2008–10: Research Assistant and Honours Student. There: Traveller, Asia

Dr Robert Prevedel

Here, 2005: Visiting Diplomand Student. There: Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Lab, Heidelberg, Germany

Prof. Geoffrey Pryde

Here, 2002–06: Senior Research Fellow. There: Professor, Griffith University, Australia & Chief Technical Director, PsiQuantum Australia.

Mahdi Qaryan

Here, 2019–21: Masters student. There: PhD Student, University of Queensland.

Dr Nicolás Quesada

Here, 2014–15: Visiting PhD Student. There: Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Dr Sven Ramelow

Here, 2009: Guest Doktorand. There: Group Leader, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Prof. Kevin Resch

Here, 2005–06: Research Fellow. There: Professor and Canada Research Chair in Optical Quantum Technologies, Institute for Quantum Computing and University of Waterloo, Canada

Assis.-Prof. Martin Ringbauer

Here, 2012–16: PhD Student. 2016 winner of Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis. There: Assistant Professor and Erwin Schrödinger Fellow, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Assoc.-Prof. Jacquiline Romero

Here, 2015–19: Postdoctoral Fellow. There: Reader, University of Queensland, Australia

Dr Peter Roos

Here, 2000–2001: Fulbright Scholar. There: President, CEO, and Co-Founder, Bridger Photonics, Montana, United States of America

Prof. Pascale Senellart

Here, 2014,2022: Visiting Professor, 2016: Invited speaker at EQuS Workshop. There: Professor, Laboratory for Photonics and Nanostructures, France

Dr Bojan Škerlak

Here, 2008–9: Guest Masters Student. There: Senior Physical Climate Risk Researcher, MSCI Inc., and Founder & Full-Stack Data Analytics Expert, Škerlak Data + Analytics, Switzerland

Dr Devin Smith

Here, 2009–15: PhD Student. There: CTO, QuiX Quantum, Netherlands

Dr Michael Stefszky

Here, 2013: Postdoctoral Scientist. There: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Paderborn, Germany

Prof. Aephraim Steinberg

Here, 2008: Visiting Professor. There: Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

Ming Su

Here, 2018–2022: PhD Student. There: Photonics engineer, SiluxTek, China

Dr Robert Thew

Here, 2000: PhD Student. There: Group Leader, University of Geneva, Switzerland & Chair, Strategic Research Agenda Work Group, European Quantum Flagship

Dr Michael Vanner

Here, 2013–2015: Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow, 2016 & 2017: Visiting Scientist. There: Reader in Quantum Science and Technology, Imperial University, London, United Kingdom

Dr Till Weinhold

Here, 2003–2007: PhD Student; 2010–2022 Senior Research Fellow There: Science Advisor HQ 1 Div, Defence Science & Technology, Australia

A.-Prof. Nor Azwa Zakaria

Here, 2015–2022: PhD Student. There: Assistant-Professor, International Islamic University Malaysia