In this episode of Entangled with... we speak with Dr. Tiff brydges, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva working on quantum communication. We discuss her experience working on a photonic cluster state during her master's degree at the University of Oxford and her research transition to trapped ion systems at Innsbruck University. We discuss how a trapped ion quantum system works, what makes it such a good platform for quantum simulations and why entanglement is an essential resource and how it can be quantified. We finish with some advice for anyone interested in entering the world of research and some advice for current PhD students.