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 quantum algorithms for solving quantum mechanical problems to exploring quantum machine learning algorithms.
From the fall of 2021 we expect to hire a new PhD student working on quantum computing via the recent EU funded project CompSci, administered by the CCSE. At present we have also four Master of Science students working on the above topics. They would be potential candidates for future PhD fellowships.