Microsoft has invested heavily in the Sydney Nanoscience Hub at the University of Sydney

Professor David Reilly made headlines in February with a breakthrough CMOS chip engineered to precisely control large numbers of sensitive qubits in the cryogenic temperatures needed to keep them stable. He holds an unusual position as both an employee of Microsoft and the University of Sydney, balancing the academic and corporate worlds in search of a way to make quantum computers a reality. Find more information here.