Fellowships & summer schools

IBM

A free annual online program teaching quantum computing through lectures and hands-on labs — check current dates and registration.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

A selective 10-week paid fellowship — two weeks of advanced lectures, then eight weeks of mentored research on real quantum hardware (Quantinuum, IBM, QuEra, D-Wave).

Fermilab — Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center

A 2-week hands-on school for upper-level undergrads through postdocs, covering superconducting qubits, quantum sensing, and hardware execution.

U.S. Department of Energy

The five DOE quantum centers — QSA (Berkeley Lab), Q-NEXT (Argonne), SQMS (Fermilab), C2QA (Brookhaven), and QSC (Oak Ridge) — run summer research positions and graduate internships in quantum software, control, and compilation.

Institute for Quantum Computing — University of Waterloo

Advanced workshops in quantum information theory, cryptography, and fault-tolerant architecture for graduate and postdoctoral researchers.

University of Colorado Boulder

A month-long summer school for advanced graduate students and postdocs — in years focused on quantum information, expect graduate-level rigor in many-body dynamics, tensor networks, and error correction.

Université Grenoble Alpes, France

A world-renowned European summer school, with 2–4 week sessions covering quantum optics, quantum information processing, and superconducting circuits.

Xanadu

A self-paced, project-based course in quantum machine learning and variational algorithms — goes beyond basic circuits into differentiable and continuous-variable quantum computing.

The Coding School

Runs research-immersion programs and special-topics courses in quantum cybersecurity, compiler architecture, and hardware benchmarking beyond its intro curriculum.