Pieter Kok

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Pieter Kok
BornJune 1972 (age 53)
Friesland, Netherlands
Alma mater University of Utrecht
University of Wales, Bangor
Scientific career
Fields Quantum information theory
Thesis State Preparation in Quantum Optics  (2001)
Doctoral advisor Samuel L. Braunstein

Pieter Kok is a Dutch physicist and one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography. His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation protocols, quantum teleportation and the interpretation of quantum theory. [1] He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Sheffield. [2]

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Professor Kok was born in Friesland, Netherlands, graduated from the University of Utrecht with a masters in degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory, and later completing a PhD in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor in 2001. He has previously worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, England and at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

References

  1. "Quantum Computing" in "The Material World". BBC Radio 4. 6 April 2006.
  2. Youtube video: The physics of time travel by the University of Sheffield.

Selected publications