Dear HQI Community, We are delighted to announce the arrival of our inaugural HQI Director of Education and Outreach, Dr. Nishant Sule<https://quantum.harvard.edu/nishant-sule>le>. In this role, Nishant will partner with faculty to lead the development, planning, implementation, coordination, assessment, and continuous improvement of HQI’s educational programs. Chief among his responsibilities will be his role as administrative leader of the Quantum Science and Engineering PhD program. Nishant will help to advise and oversee the progress of QSE PhD students and manage all administrative aspects of the program, including administering QSE admissions. Nishant’s portfolio will also include the development and management of outreach projects focused on science communication and broadening HQI’s educational impact in the Boston area and beyond. Nishant received his PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014 where he studied electronic transport in graphene. Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Chicago where he developed a computational method to simulate the dynamics of optically trapped strongly-interacting nanoparticles. Nishant has been at Harvard since 2017, first as a Senior Computational Engineer with SEAS Computing where he started developing computational modules for various courses at SEAS. Prior to joining HQI, he was the Director for Active Learning, leading the Computing in Engineering Education team in the SEAS Teaching and Learning group. While at SEAS, Nishant has been involved in developing and/or teaching parts of several courses across various disciplines, such as GenEd 1080, AM 10, AM 115, ES 100, ES 96, CS 10, and more. We thank members of the HQI community for helping us to craft the HQI Director of Education and Outreach role, as well as Dr. Jacob Barandes and Dr. John Girash for participating in the search process and providing valuable insights and feedback. Nishant will be working out of the HQI administrative offices in Maxwell Dworkin 111 and can be reached at nsule@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:nsule@fas.harvard.edu>. We encourage you to reach out to him, to help him integrate into the HQI community, and to suggest and support HQI educational activities. Sincerely, John Doyle Evelyn Hu Mikhail Lukin Clare Ploucha