During the last two years we have started a large scientific activity on Quantum Computing and Machine Learning at the Center for Computing in Science Education (CCSE), with three PhD students hired since October 2019 (Øyvind Sigmundsson Schøyen, October 2019, Stian Bilek, September 2020, and Jonas Boym Flaten, December 2020) and several master of Science students. This activity spans from the development of quantum-mechanical many-particle theories for studying systems of interest for making quantum computers, via the development of machine learning and quantum algorithms for solving quantum mechanical problems to exploring quantum machine learning algorithms.
From the spring of 2022 we expect to hire a post-doctoral fellow working on quantum computing (many-body theories) at the center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Oslo., At present we have from fall 2021 eight Master of Science students working on applications of machine learning and quantum computing. They would be potential candidates for future PhD fellowships.