Artur Ekert
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Artur Ekert at the Royal Society admissions day in London for new fellows in 2016
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| Born | Artur Konrad Ekert 19 September 1961 Wrocław, Poland |
| Residence |
United Kingdom Singapore |
| Nationality |
British Polish |
| Fields |
Physics Cryptography |
| Institutions |
Merton College, Oxford University of Oxford National University of Singapore |
| Alma mater |
Jagiellonian University University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis | Correlations in quantum optics (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Peter Knight David Deutsch Keith Burnett |
| Doctoral students |
Patrick Hayden Michele Mosca Willem van Dam |
| Known for | Quantum cryptography |
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Website arturekert |
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Artur Konrad Ekert FRS (born 19 September 1961 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish-British Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore and Director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT). His research interests extend over most aspects of information processing in quantum-mechanical systems, with a focus on quantum communication and quantum computation. He is best known as one of the inventors of quantum cryptography.
Ekert studied physics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and at the University of Oxford. Between 1987 and 1991 he was a Doctor of Philosophy student at Wolfson College, Oxford. In his doctoral thesis he showed how quantum entanglement and non-locality can be used to distribute cryptographic keys with perfect security.
In 1991 he was elected a Junior Research Fellow and subsequently (1994) a Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. At the time he established the first research group in quantum cryptography and computation, based in the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford. Subsequently it evolved into the Centre for Quantum Computation, now based at DAMTP in Cambridge.
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