University · Oxford
Oxford leads QCi3, the national research hub for quantum computing, funded with £21.9m from EPSRC for 2024 to 2029 and directed by Dominic O'Brien; it also led the preceding Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub from 2019. Trapped ions are a particular strength. In February 2025 David Lucas's group reported in Nature a distributed algorithm run across two ion-trap modules linked by photons. Companies built on Oxford research include Oxford Ionics, which IonQ bought in 2025, and Quantum Motion, co-founded with UCL.
University of Oxford, in Oxford, appears in 10 UK quantum projects listed here. In this directory it leads QCi3 and QCS and is a partner in 8 more. People profiled here include Andrew Daley (PI), Dominic O'Brien (Director) and Natalia Ares (Co-Founder and Chief Scientist).
Sources: EP/Z53318X/1 QCi3 Hub | UKRI Gateway to Research · Our Team | QCi3 · EP/T001062/1 Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub | UKRI Gateway to Research · Oxford University team makes connections to build a quantum supercomputer | The Quantum Insider · Chris Ballance, the British quantum entrepreneur who put ion traps on a chip | Quantum Zeitgeist · Quantum Motion raises $160M for silicon quantum computing development | The Quantum Insider
QCi3
The national research hub for quantum computing, led by the University of Oxford. It works on scalable and networked quantum computers.
Role: Lead
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Computing, Networks, Software and algorithms
QCS
The phase 2 national hub for quantum computing and simulation, led by the University of Oxford. It ran from 2019 to 2024.
Role: Lead
Funding: £27.3m
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
EPSRC fellowships for 11 early-career quantum technology researchers at UK universities.
Role: Partner
Themes: Skills and training, Computing, Sensing
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
Q-BIOMED
A national research hub that develops quantum sensors for earlier diagnosis of disease. UCL and the University of Cambridge lead it.
Role: Partner
Funding: £24m
Themes: Sensing, Biomedical and health, Imaging
QCNDS
A centre of excellence launched by AWE in November 2025 and led by the University of Strathclyde, applying quantum sensing and computing to nuclear science for national security.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Sensing, Defence and security
AutoQT
A Riverlane-led consortium developing automated methods to control and tune large numbers of qubits.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
QuPharma
A SEEQC-led consortium linking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer to model drug properties.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Biomedical and health
DISCOVERY
An M Squared-led consortium that worked on the photonics needed to scale neutral-atom, trapped-ion and optical quantum computers.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing
The phase 2 national hub for quantum communications, led by the University of York. The hub's work ran from 2019 to 2024.
Role: Partner
Funding: £23.5m
Themes: Communications, Networks
Recent articles from Quantum Zeitgeist that mention University of Oxford.
Vlatko Vedral is Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Oxford, a Serbian-born physicist who has spent three decades asking what entanglement is and what it can do. Entanglement is the link that lets two particles share one quantum state. As a PhD student in London he helped f
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From bits to qubits, converting classical information now accounts for circuit size, depth and resource needs previously overlooked in theoretical designs. This comprehensive survey moves beyond abstract concepts to examine techniques applicable to real-world datasets like sparse matrices and Boolea
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In the Q4Bio Challenge, research teams sought scalable quantum algorithms for healthcare, competing for $2 million in prize money, and five of the six finalists used IBM quantum hardware for their research. Q4Bio aims to accelerate development of quantum algorithms for healthcare that can run on qua
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A new study challenges AI’s knowledge creation, arguing a disconnect exists between its data-based predictions and human theory-based reasoning.
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Research, commercial and investment relationships, by year. Partners with a profile here are linked.
Quantum Fabrix Research 2024
Recorded on Quantum Fabrix's profile.
Mode Labs Research 2023
Recorded on Mode Labs's profile.
Quantinuum Research 2023
Nokia Bell Labs Research 2022
Microsoft Quantum Research 2021
Dstl Research 2020
Riverlane Research 2019
Oxford Quantum Circuits Research 2017
Parkwalk Advisors Strategic 2015
Recorded on Parkwalk Advisors's profile.
IP Group Strategic 2006
Recorded on IP Group's profile.
Chosen by shared specialisms, then location and type.
Investor · Cambridge · 4 shared specialisms
Investor · Cambridge · 4 shared specialisms
Investor · London · 3 shared specialisms
Investor · London · 3 shared specialisms
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