Dzurak leads the silicon CMOS quantum dot spin qubit programme at UNSW and co-founded Diraq, the company commercialising it. The group demonstrated the first silicon MOS qubit, two-qubit logic in silicon, and has pushed toward fidelities above the fault-tolerance threshold in industrially-manufactured CMOS devices, including work on gate-stack engineering for low charge noise and on single-electron-transistor charge sensing for readout. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — the relevant transferable asset is the readout: the single-electron-transistor and gate-based dispersive sensors this group builds are among the most sensitive electrometers in existence, the charge-domain analogue of pT/sqrt(Hz) magnetometry. Caveat against the stated preference: the programme is now heavily fabrication- and yield-driven and closely tied to a commercial roadmap, so a sensing-focused postdoc would be somewhat off the group's main axis.

Morello heads the Fundamental Quantum Technologies Laboratory and is the person who first read out the spin of a single electron, and then a single nucleus, in silicon. Current directions: high-spin donors (antimony-123, with eight nuclear levels) used as qudits and as sensors of local strain and electric field; nuclear acoustic resonance, in which a strain wave rather than a magnetic field drives the nuclear spin; engineered decoherence experiments as tests of quantum foundations; and precision tomography of multi-qubit donor registers. The group's donors are among the longest-coherence solid-state spins known (seconds for nuclei). Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — a single-donor nuclear spin in silicon is functionally an NV centre with better coherence and worse readout: the same DEER, dynamical-decoupling and nuclear-register protocols apply, and the group's high-spin qudit work is aimed at exactly the multi-level sensing enhancements that the NV community is now chasing. Preferred attribute present: sensitivity and coherence, not fabrication, are the limiting variables here.

Simmons pioneered atomic-precision fabrication in silicon: hydrogen-resist STM lithography, phosphine dosing and epitaxial silicon overgrowth to place individual dopant atoms with sub-nanometre accuracy, then measure them at millikelvin. The programme has produced single-atom transistors, precision dopant arrays used as analogue quantum simulators, and the largest atom-scale device platform in the world; she also founded Silicon Quantum Computing Pty Ltd. The sensing-relevant capability is the single-electron transistor as an exquisitely sensitive electrometer, capable of resolving individual charge transitions and mapping local electrostatic potential at the atomic scale. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — her SET electrometry is the charge-domain counterpart to magnetic NV sensing at pT/sqrt(Hz): both are single-quantum-object detectors whose performance is limited by back-action and by the noise of the readout chain. Very large group, strongly fabrication-oriented and commercially entangled, which cuts against the stated preference for sensitivity-limited rather than fabrication-limited work.

Yang works on the systems-level physics of silicon spin qubits: operating qubits at elevated temperatures (above one kelvin, where cryo-CMOS control electronics can be co-integrated), valley and spin-orbit engineering, and the electrical control of spin qubits without micromagnets. The 'hot qubit' programme in particular is an engineering argument about where the classical/quantum boundary should sit in a real machine. Positioned against the established body of NV-ensemble quantum sensing work — DEER, nanoscale NMR and T1 relaxometry protocols operating at pT/sqrt(Hz) field sensitivity — raising the operating temperature of a spin sensor while preserving coherence is the same trade a pT/sqrt(Hz) NV ensemble makes implicitly by working at room temperature; Yang's work is the silicon community's attempt to buy back some of that convenience. Borderline inclusion — this is quantum computing rather than sensing — retained under the inclusive rubric.