Active Programme · 2025 onwards
EPSRC Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowships
EPSRC fellowships for 11 early-career quantum technology researchers at UK universities.
Role: Partner
Themes: Skills and training, Computing, Sensing
University of Edinburgh
University · Edinburgh
Edinburgh's distinctive quantum strength is software and verification. Its Quantum Software Lab works with industry on algorithms and on ways to check that answers from quantum hardware can be trusted, and informatics professor Elham Kashefi is seconded part-time as chief scientist of the National Quantum Computing Centre. The university is a partner in the Integrated Quantum Networks and QEPNT hubs, and Robert Henderson's single-photon image sensor research there led to the spin-out Singular Photonics. The lab's Quantum Fringe festival ran events across the city from May to June 2026.
University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, appears in nine UK quantum projects listed here. It is a partner in 9 UK projects, including EPSRC Quantum Technology Career Acceleration Fellowships, QCi3 and IQN. People profiled here include Elham Kashefi (Chief Scientist) and Robert Henderson (Co-Investigator).
Sources: Quantum Software Lab, University of Edinburgh · Leadership team (NQCC) · QEPNT hub investigators · About Singular Photonics
Projects (9)
Partner in (9)
- Active Hub · 2024 to 2029
Hub for Quantum Computing via Integrated and Interconnected Implementations
QCi3
The national research hub for quantum computing, led by the University of Oxford. It works on scalable and networked quantum computers.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Computing, Networks, Software and algorithms
- Active Hub · 2024 to 2029
Integrated Quantum Networks Quantum Technology Research Hub
IQN
A national research hub building quantum networks, from local links to satellite connections. Heriot-Watt University leads it.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Networks, Communications
- Active Hub · 2024 to 2029
UK Hub for Quantum Enabled Position, Navigation and Timing
QEPNT
A national research hub for quantum position, navigation and timing, led by the University of Glasgow. It aims to reduce reliance on satellite signals such as GPS.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Timing and navigation, Sensing, Defence and security
- Completed Consortium · 2022 to 2025
Autonomous Quantum Technologies
AutoQT
A Riverlane-led consortium developing automated methods to control and tune large numbers of qubits.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
- Completed Consortium · 2020 to 2023
AIRQKD
A BT-led consortium testing free-space quantum key distribution for short and mid-range links, including 5G and connected vehicles.
Role: Partner
Themes: Communications, Networks
- Completed Consortium · 2020 to 2023
Quantum Computing Platform for NISQ Era Commercial Applications
A Rigetti UK-led consortium that installed and ran a superconducting quantum computer in the UK and offered it over the cloud.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
- Completed Hub · 2019 to 2025
QuantIC - The UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Imaging
QuantIC
The phase 2 national hub for quantum imaging, led by the University of Glasgow. Its grant ran from December 2019 to May 2025.
Role: Partner
Funding: £25m
Themes: Imaging, Sensing
- Completed Hub · 2019 to 2024
UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Computing and Simulation
QCS
The phase 2 national hub for quantum computing and simulation, led by the University of Oxford. It ran from 2019 to 2024.
Role: Partner
Funding: £27.3m
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
In the news
Recent articles from Quantum Zeitgeist that mention University of Edinburgh.
A recap of the Quantum Software Lab’s Quantum Fringe in Edinburgh, read on Quantum Zeitgeist
The Quantum Software Lab (QSL) at the University of Edinburgh has become a globally recognized hub for creating software solutions, and with its strategic partnership with the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), now has more than 70 researchers. In three years, the QSL is poised to lead a
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University of Edinburgh’s Quantum Fringe festival builds on 1,000 attendees, read on Quantum Zeitgeist
Quantum Fringe Festival 2026, a two-month programme of events, explores the latest developments in quantum computing and its real-world applications. Building on last year’s event, which brought together around 1,000 attendees across 16 events, the festival running from May to July 2026, continues t
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University of Edinburgh team builds secure quantum network protocols, read on Quantum Zeitgeist
Authentication is a fundamental building block of secure quantum networks, essential for quantum cryptographic protocols and often debated as a key limitation of quantum key distribution in security standards. Researchers at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, introduced a new authentica
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Edinburgh Team Builds Eavesdropper-Blind State Preparation, read on Quantum Zeitgeist
Previously reliant upon complex ‘trapdoor’ functions, constructing remote state preparation is now achievable using simpler one-way group actions. This work demonstrates an eavesdropper-blind variant, removing reliance on quantum server security, yet still sufficient for practical quantum public-key
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