For Quantum Year, the AIP has selected two 2025 Women in Physics Lecturers: Dr Sol H. Jacobsen and Dr Danielle Holmes will tour Australia this year as the AIP’s joint 2025 Women in Physics Lecturers.

Dr Jacobsen, Group Leader at QuSpin Centre for Quantum Spintronics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), develops materials that are both superconductive and magnetic (two properties that are usually at odds with each other) to create computers with little energy loss.

Dr Holmes, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at UNSW Sydney, manipulates individual atoms in silicon chips to build “qubits” (quantum computing’s version of binary digits) to create scalable quantum computers.

The Women In Physics Lecture tour celebrates and recognises women’s contributions in physics.