Quantum Frontier Institute is an independent research organization uniting physicists, biologists, data scientists, and educators across 14 laboratories. We publish openly, train the next generation of investigators, and translate laboratory findings into measurable public impact.
Every study we release undergoes double-blind peer review and is deposited in open repositories within 30 days of acceptance. Below are three flagship findings from the past quarter.
Our condensed-matter team reports a controlled study demonstrating coherence times exceeding 1.8 ms in a 27-qubit array, a result statistically significant at p < 0.001 across 12,400 experimental runs. The methodology introduces a novel surface-code decoder that reduces crosstalk by 34%.
A seven-year longitudinal study across 4,200 patient-derived organoids reveals a reproducible off-target signature enriched near heterochromatin boundaries. The findings suggest new guardrails for therapeutic editing and have been validated in an independent cohort at ETH Zürich.
Using a coupled Earth-system model at 5 km resolution, our climate team revises the abyssal heat-uptake estimate upward by 11%. A controlled study against Argo float data confirms the adjustment with a 95% confidence interval, with direct implications for sea-level projections through 2100.
From high-school outreach to postdoctoral fellowships, our education portfolio is designed around apprenticeship, reproducibility, and real-world research exposure. Every learner works alongside an active laboratory — not in a classroom simulation.
A 10-month paid placement pairing STEM juniors and seniors with a principal investigator. Fellows co-author at least one manuscript and present at our annual symposium.
A four-week intensive covering version control, pre-registration, statistical power analysis, and containerized analysis pipelines. No prerequisites; all materials are open-source.
K–12 educators spend a semester embedded in one of our labs, returning to their classrooms with authentic case studies, datasets, and a network of scientist-mentors.
Filter by discipline to find active funding opportunities administered or co-administered by the Institute. All awards are need-blind and open to international applicants unless otherwise noted.
Breaking results, lab announcements, and commentary from our researchers. Updated daily by our editorial desk.
The Condensed Matter Laboratory announced today that its 27-qubit processor has sustained quantum coherence for 1.8 milliseconds at standard cryogenic operating temperatures — a result that, if replicated, could accelerate the timeline for fault-tolerant quantum computation by several years. The paper, co-authored by Dr. Elena Voss and four collaborators, has been accepted at Nature Physics and the underlying dataset is being released under a CC-BY license.
Read Full Story →“The apprenticeship model here is unmatched. Within six months I was co-authoring a paper and presenting at an international conference — experiences that shaped my entire career.”
“As a high-school teacher, the residency gave me authentic datasets and a network of scientists I still call on three years later. My students notice the difference.”
“QFI's commitment to open data and pre-registration changed how our entire consortium thinks about evidence. It's rare to find a lab that practices what it publishes.”
Unlike university departments, we are not bound by teaching loads or disciplinary silos. Every researcher at QFI is hired primarily to pursue open, high-risk questions, and our labs are organized around problems — not departments. This structure enables the kind of cross-pollination that produced, for example, our recent climate-quantum collaboration.
Yes. All peer-reviewed papers are deposited in arXiv within 48 hours of acceptance, and all underlying datasets are released under CC-BY 4.0 within 30 days. We also publish negative results and replication attempts — a policy that has been central to our identity since 2014.
Eligibility varies by award but most are open to applicants worldwide regardless of nationality. Early-career grants typically require a PhD earned within the last seven years; education awards are open to currently-employed educators. Full criteria are listed on each opportunity's detail page.
Absolutely. We maintain sponsored-research agreements with more than 40 industry partners. All collaborations must pass our open-science review to ensure that results remain publishable and reproducible, a condition we have never waived.
Each lab page lists the principal investigator's public email and ORCID. For media inquiries, please use press@qfinstitute.org; for general collaboration questions, partnerships@qfinstitute.org will route your message within two business days.