QTA PhD Scholarships
Quantum Technologies Aotearoa (QTA) provides PhD students with an opportunity to do excellent research in a collaborative environment.
About QTA Phd Scholarships
We welcome applications on an ongoing basis from domestic and international students.
Quantum technologies have at their heart inherently quantum mechanical effects such as entanglement, superposition and the properties of atoms or atom-like systems. However the scope of the QTA research programme and these PhD projects is slightly broader. Included in scope are enabling technologies closely targeted at the further development of quantum technologies, as well as the application of “spin out” technologies , developed as part of quantum technology research but which turn out to be useful more broadly.
If you are interested, please contact any investigators whose interests overlap with your own.
Value
The Scholarship stipend will be equivalent to the PhD scholarship offered by the institute of study and will be tenured for three years from the official start date. The Scholarship will include domestic tuition fees and excludes student services fees and insurance.
Criteria
Applicants for PhD Scholarships are assessed based on the following:
- Excellence of the candidate: academically capable of conducting research with prior experience of academic research to support their application.
- The student must be supervised by a QTA Investigator and the PhD study must be at a New Zealand university.
- Feasibility of the project and alignment of student capability with project goals.
- The potential for the project to impact the development and use of quantum technologies.
- Synergies and potential synergies with other QTA research projects.
- Alignment with the goal of growing Māori and Pasifika engagement with quantum technologies.
- The strength of the international collaboration and if the international collaboration is with one of our six target countries (UK, US, Japan, Republic of Korea, Germany, Singapore)
Scoring
- 50% Academic excellence of the candidate and demonstrated research capability.
- 30% Alignment of the project with QTA purpose and goals for international collaboration.
- 10% Quality of the project.
- 10% Feasibility of the project and alignment of student capability with project goals.
Restrictions
Students applying for QTA Scholarships areexpected to also apply or have already applied for the University scholarshipsof their host institution. If an applicant hasn’t applied for a UniversityDoctoral Scholarship when they apply for a QTA Scholarship, a clear reasonshould be given.
Applicants for this Scholarship must haveapplied for the institutional equivalent Doctoral Scholarship. If you areoffered an institutional PhD Scholarship, you must accept this. QTA support(for example for travel to international collaborators) will still beavailable.
You must be residing in New Zealand to takeup the Scholarship.
List of projects available
The Dodd-Walls Centre research focus is photonics, the generation, transmission, and manipulation of light, and the study of matter and energy at the quantum level.