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Aligned Students

The Quantum Informatics CDT encourages students undertaking related research to join the CDT as Aligned Students. These students benefit from access to a multidisciplinary cohort of PhD students with increased peer support, invitations to bespoke events funded and coordinated by the CDT and our partners, and exposure to the wider CDT stakeholder network for career collaboration and opportunities.

If you are a PhD student at one of our five partner institutions, whose research aligns with the Quantum Informatics CDT’s PhD programme, and you would like to be considered for Aligned Student status, please contact us for more information.

María Gragera Garcés

University of Edinburgh
Supervisors:
Prof Chris Heunen (University of Edinburgh) and Prof Mahesh Marina (University of Edinburgh)

My work with VeriQloud will be part of their Prepare-and-Send Universal Blind Quantum Computation (UBQC) project. Through my PhD we aim to integrate quantum solutions for privacy and integrity into their measurement-based quantum distributed network stack at the link layer. The primary goal is to ensure that these solutions make the hardware-software stack for future distributed quantum computing secure by design, embedding privacy and integrity features intrinsically within the stack rather than as an additional layer.

As a Quantum Informatics DTP student, María is aligned to the Quantum Informatics CDT through her research topic, and proximity to the CDT. 

My project investigates efficient resource allocation and workload distribution across heterogeneous quantum clusters. I explore multi-model distribution strategies, enabling hybrid execution across problem, algorithm, subroutine, and model levels. Inspired by High-Performance Computing (HPC), the framework supports scalable decomposition and parallel execution of quantum programs with minimal communication overhead. A core focus is the design of mechanisms for coordinating and synchronizing distributed quantum workloads, along with early-stage exploration of distributed quantum error correction. By developing techniques for flexible, secure, and efficient orchestration of quantum resources, this research contributes to the architecture of future quantum cloud systems.