This Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council fellowship is one of their ad hoc fellowship calls in a specific research area and is new for spring 2024. EPSRC also offer two main categories of fellowship: a postdoctoral fellowship in a limited range of scientific areas and an open fellowship applicable across the whole portfolio of physical, engineering and energy sciences. Interested applicants should consult the EPSRC fellowships pages for more information on expected career stage for each fellowship type.
Quantum Technologies Career Acceleration fellowship
This opportunity is an independent fellowship aimed at early career researchers who are ready to establish a research group through this application. Both postdoctoral researchers and those recently appointed to their first academic position can apply, senior academics are ineligible. Applicants who have already achieved research independence or have been awarded significant funding aimed at the early career stage are ineligible (eg another independent level fellowship, grants with funding for postdoc time etc). The scheme is welcoming of applicants who have a diverse career path for example who do not hold a PhD but have other experience in the field of Quantum Technologies (this excludes applicants who are currently studying for their PhD but without other relevant experience before this).
The scheme provides funding for between 3 and 5 years for the fellow’s salary, postdoc funding, research expenses and equipment up to £400,000 as well as funds for career development and activities to drive entrepreneurship and innovation needed for the growth of the QT sector in the UK.
Applicants who are interested to apply with Oxford Physics as their host are asked to submit the following EOI documents by Monday 5 February 2024 to fellowships@physics.ox.ac.uk. Applicant EOIs will be considered with reference to the bullet points provided by the funder under the ‘What we’re looking for’ tab on the following link Pre-announcement: EPSRC Quantum Technologies Career Acceleration Fellowships – UKRI.
- CV (please feel free to include details on any career breaks, part time working etc which will be taken into account for assessing career stage)
- Publication and output list
- A 1 page summary of the proposed research project. Applicants should consider the above ‘what we’re looking for’ while writing this section in particular address the following aspects in their EOI. How the project will -
- deliver an outcome with a significant impact on the QT landscape in the UK
- be predominantly addressing research and innovation challenges within Quantum Technologies. This is a broad research area and includes the spectrum of quantum computing, sensing, timing, imaging and communications, engineering, and underpinning science.
- include networking activities to support and grow the UK quantum technologies community
- include a framework of an industry engagement plan to take your QT research closer to commercialisation
- Please cc in your Oxford Physics sponsor (an academic based in the department who supports your application).