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December 9, 2025

Marcel Franz Appointed Scientific Director of UBC Blusson QMI

The University of British Columbia’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI) announced today the appointment of Professor Marcel...

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November 14, 2022

Applications open: Postdoctoral Fellowships at Blusson QMI

Internationally recognized for its research and discoveries in quantum materials, quantum information, and quantum devices, the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter...

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October 7, 2022

Horizon EU funding boosts quantum algorithms research

A new project linking 11 Canadian and European universities was awarded more than CAD $3 million in Horizon Digital Europe...

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September 8, 2022

TechOps team leads helium conservation and sustainability at UBC

The technical operations (TechOps) team at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI) are leaders in helium conservation and...

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Pinder pours liquid nitrogen into a blue cannister to prepare for the superconductor levitation track demonstration at UBC.
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August 29, 2022

Pinder Dosanjh receives UBC’s highest staff honour

Pinder Dosanjh has been awarded the President’s Service Award for Excellence (PSAE), the highest honour given to staff at the...

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Bhudia presents his work on superconducting quantum devices at M2S
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August 25, 2022

People of Blusson QMI: Ashutosh Bhudia

Ashutosh Bhudia is off on his next adventure: he’s going on to study at one of Australia’s leading quantum computing...

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August 24, 2022

People of Blusson QMI: Mario Ulises González Rivas

Under the right conditions, you can convince 1000 electrons to work together. “It can be challenging, but it’s probably easier...

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August 24, 2022

UBC students attend IBM Quantum Error Correction Summer School

Big problems require focus, and this summer, IBM offered 62 scholars from around the world the opportunity to learn, connect,...

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Ehansur Rahman, who recently won an award for a paper modelling thermionic energy conversion and its challenges.
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August 22, 2022

A simple clean energy device with complex physics gets new hope for viability

Much of the heat generated on Earth is wasted. If we could generate electricity from the high temperatures produced as...

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Simon Godin (left) and Ke Zou (right) look at data on a computer in Zou's lab at UBC
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August 15, 2022

New approach to polar surface substrates solves instability problem

A new technical paper from Ke Zou and colleagues describes an accessible approach to achieving an atomically flat and stable...

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August 12, 2022

BC teachers get professional development course in quantum computing

High school science teachers in British Columbia (BC) have a new tool to help them teach quantum computing concepts to...

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Adan Azem stands against a white background, wearing a white blazer and black top. She is wearing black-rimmed glasses.
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July 25, 2022

People of Blusson QMI: Adan Azem

Adan Azem is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia...

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Andrew Potter, wearing a red button-down shirt and black glasses in front of a blackboard at UBC
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July 20, 2022

New state of matter could make quantum computers less error-prone

Researchers at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Quantinuum, and the Flatiron Institute have demonstrated a new phase of matter...

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