TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum researcher mobility
T2 - The wonderful wizard of Oz who paid for Dorothy's visa fees
AU - Malik, Mehul
AU - Agudelo, Elizabeth
AU - Kunjwal, Ravi
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the many unnamed people (administrators, colleagues, and friends) who have sacrificed their time to help us navigate the complex web of immigration policies and hurdles that we have encountered in our own careers. MM acknowledges support by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/P024114/1) and the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant PIQUaNT (950402). EA acknowledges funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): M3151. RK is supported by the Chargé de Recherche fellowship of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique—FNRS, Belgium.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Historically, science has benefited greatly through the mobility of researchers, whether it has been due to large-scale conflict, the search for new opportunities or a lack thereof. Today's world of strict global immigration policies, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, places inordinate hurdles on the mobility of all researchers, let alone quantum ones. Exorbitant visa fees, the difficulty of navigating a foreign immigration system, lack of support for researchers' families, and explicit government policy targeting selected groups of immigrants are all examples of things that have severely impacted the ability of quantum researchers to cross both physical and scientific borders. Here we clearly identify some key problems affecting quantum researcher mobility and discuss examples of good practice on the governmental, institutional, and societal level that have helped, or might help, overcome these hurdles. The adoption of such practices worldwide can ensure that quantum scientists can reach their fullest potential, irrespective of where they were born.
AB - Historically, science has benefited greatly through the mobility of researchers, whether it has been due to large-scale conflict, the search for new opportunities or a lack thereof. Today's world of strict global immigration policies, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, places inordinate hurdles on the mobility of all researchers, let alone quantum ones. Exorbitant visa fees, the difficulty of navigating a foreign immigration system, lack of support for researchers' families, and explicit government policy targeting selected groups of immigrants are all examples of things that have severely impacted the ability of quantum researchers to cross both physical and scientific borders. Here we clearly identify some key problems affecting quantum researcher mobility and discuss examples of good practice on the governmental, institutional, and societal level that have helped, or might help, overcome these hurdles. The adoption of such practices worldwide can ensure that quantum scientists can reach their fullest potential, irrespective of where they were born.
KW - immigration
KW - mobility
KW - quantum
KW - research
KW - society
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133663187&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/2058-9565/ac77b3
DO - 10.1088/2058-9565/ac77b3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133663187
SN - 2058-9565
VL - 7
JO - Quantum Science and Technology
JF - Quantum Science and Technology
IS - 3
M1 - 034005
ER -
