Artur Ekert#
| Membership Number: | 4192 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.arturekert.org |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Adjunct Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing
- 2010 - present Visiting Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
- 2006 - Professor of Quantum Physics, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
- 2006 - Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor, National University of Singapore
- 2002 - 2006 Professorial Fellow, Kings College, Cambridge
- 2002 - 2006 Leigh-Trapnell Professor in Quantum Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2002 - 2005 Temasek Visiting Professor, Singapore
- 2000 Visiting Professor, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
- 1998 - 2002 Professor of Physics, University of Oxford
- 1998 - 2002 Fellow and Tutor in Physics, Keble College, Oxford
- 1994 - 1998 Resarch Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
- 1994 - 2001 Royal Society Howe Research Fellow
- 1993 - 1994 Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- 1991 - 1994 Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum physics
- Quantum cryptography
- Quantum computing
- Error correcting codes
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2007 The Royal Society Hughes Medal
- 2004 The European Union Descartes Prize (team award, project IST-QuComm)
- 1996 Air Force "Windows on Science Award"
- 1995 The Institute of Physics Maxwell Medal & Prize
- 1988 Pirie-Reid Award, University of Oxford
