Quantum in the Summer: Careers Panel
LOCATION
NSQI, Tyndall Ave, Bristol, BS8 1FD
WHEN
Fri, 2 Aug 2024: 15:00 BST
Boris Shteynas
QUANTUM ENGINEER
Boris is a quantum engineer working in our Quantum Research and Development team. Boris completed his PhD in the Ketterle group at MIT in 2019. After earning his PhD Boris decided to warm his experiments up from nano-Kelvin to milli-Kelvin temperatures and switch from cold atoms to “artificial” atoms – superconducting qubits.
SESSION DETAILS
OQC’s Quantum Engineer, Boris Shteynas took part in the University of Bristol’s Quantum in the Summer Careers panel.
Boris shared details of his career and the path that has lead him to his role at OQC.
If you would like to learn more about what it is like working in quantum, and at OQC, head over to our Youtube channel.
You can also catch up with what OQC’s was up to last year Bristol University’s annual ‘Careers in Quantum’ event. The event brought together academia and industry professionals to engage with students from undergraduate through to post doctoral researchers to explore the wide variety of careers available in the growing quantum industry. This was a valuable chance to showcase the possibilities of a careers in quantum, particularly as recent research by McKinsey & Company revealed the talent gap in quantum technologies narrowed in 2022, with the analysis showing that nearly two-thirds of open jobs in the industry (450 out of 717) could be filled with new master’s-level graduates in quantum technologies.
