Professor of Physics and Director of the Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre, Lancaster University
My primary focus throughout my research has been on the nascent field of Quantum Information Processing. Currently quantum cryptography, the exploitation of the laws of quantum mechanics to guarantee secure communication, is the only commercial QIP application to exploit individual quanta. In this regard QIP is little more developed than digital communication was following the invention of Morse code. I think that QIP will change the role of information in our lives, in much the same way that digital information has.
Please visit www.QOpto.com for more information and a full list of my publications.
Experience
2016–present
Adjunct professor, UESTC (Chengdu, China)
2016–present
Reader of Quantum Information, Lancaster University
2012–present
Royal Society Research Fellow, Lancaster University
2018–present
Professor, Lancaster University
Education
2006
Cambridge University, PhD
2002
Oxford University, MPhys
Grants and Contracts
2016
Atomically unique physically unclonable functions
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
2016
Pixel detectors for ionising radiation
Role:
Co-I
Funding Source:
Science and Technology Facilities Council
2012
GaSb quantum dots for a room-temperature light-matter interface