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This scheme provides ‘seed corn’ funding for up to 12 months for independent researchers.

The objectives of the scheme are to:

• Enable newly independent researchers to gather preliminary data, develop their research ideas and strengthen applications for further funding
• Support independentresearchers returning after a career break to enable them to develop new ideas and research questions
• Increase the availability of equipment and consumables for researchers at the beginning of their career and those returning from career breaks

Eligibility

• You hold a PhD or equivalent qualification
• You are within the first five years of an independent research post, at the time of application. This can be either your first permanent independent academic research post or a named limited-tenured/fixed-term academic research post, obtained in open competition (note that tenure must cover the duration of the award)
• You are based at an eligible UK organisation and a UK resident at the time of application
• You are a fully independent researcher with access to your own lab space and with the ability to recruit and be registered as the primary supervisor of PhD students and research assistants.
• Your research is within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research and biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. For a full list, please see the supported by the Royal Society.

Deadline 26 March 2025

Abstract: The talk will have two parts, the first focusing on research on low-temperature multiplexing techniques to allow scale up of the number of quantum devices that can be measured at cryogenic temperatures. In this part I will discuss how we were able to measure 571 quantum constriction devices of varying dimensions using an on-chip multiplexer to better understand the origin of the 0.7(2e²/h) anomalous conductance plateau found close to pinch-off. This allowed us to identify which models best fit the experiments. We modified this device to investigate arrays of exfoliated graphene devices and to also explore arrays of quantum dots. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss our work on high fidelity readout of the spin state of an electron in a quantum dot showing that it can be read out with a fidelity of 99.2% in 5.6us. With the growing achievements in error correction, fast high-quality readout is now needed for quantum computing scale up as the clock speed is limited by the error correction readout time.