IonQ and University of Cambridge Open Quantum Innovation Centre

Insider Brief

• IonQ and the University of Cambridge have opened the IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre at the Ray Dolby Centre, establishing the company’s first university-based centre of this kind.
• The centre’s nine initial research projects will cover quantum networking, sensing, hardware development and applications in fields including chemistry, materials science, finance, engineering and medicine.
• IonQ plans to deploy a 256-qubit Superion quantum computer and an on-campus quantum network, while Innovate UK will provide the National Quantum Computing Centre with access and computing time over three years.

PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading full-stack quantum platform and foundry, and the University of Cambridge have announced the opening of the first-ever university-based IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre. The Centre is located at the Ray Dolby Centre, the new home of the University’s Cavendish Laboratory. This initiative brings the University’s largest corporate research partnership from agreement to a physical home at one of the world’s leading facilities for physics research.

The IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre demonstrates the company’s commitment to quantum innovation and academic research within the United Kingdom. Research at the Centre includes co-development of new quantum network nodes and sensing capabilities with the university, and a strengthening of the existing Cambridge-to-Bristol quantum network. IonQ and the University of Cambridge first announced the partnership on March 11, 2026, supporting advanced research and workforce development for quantum technologies.