Personal Details

Born 19 September 1961 in Wrocław, Poland.
Nationality: British and Polish
Position: Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge, U.K.

Education and Degrees

D. Phil. 1991 Physics, Oxford University
1988-1991 Graduate student, Physics, Oxford University
1987-1988 Visiting student, Oxford University & Imperial College, London
M. Sc. 1985 Physics and Mathematics,
1980-1985 Undergraduate, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Baccalaureate 1980

Academic Appointments

2005- Distinguished Professor, National University of Singapore
2002-2005 Temasek Professor, Singapore
2002- Professorial Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge
2002- Leigh-Trapnell Professor in Quantum Physics, University of Cambridge
1998-2002 Professor of Physics, University of Oxford
1998-2002 Fellow and Tutor in Physics, Keble College, Oxford
1994-1998 Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
1994-2001 Royal Society Howe Research Fellow
1991-1994 Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford.

Academic awards and distinctions


Visiting Posts

2003, May Visiting Professor, University of Camerino, Italy
2001, Mar-Apr NUSS Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore
2000 Feb Visiting Professor, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
1999 Jan Visiting Professor, University of Camerino, Italy
1998 Mar-Apr Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
1993 May-Jun Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria

External Academic Activities


Plenary, invited and tutorial lectures

Delivered over 200 invited lectures on various aspects of quantum data processing (full list available at http://cam.qubit.org/users/artur/Talks.html). These include plenary talks at various conferences and annual meetings of physical societies, tutorial and technical lectures at universities and research centres in Europe, USA, Australia and Asia.

Publications

The list of publication is available at http://cam.qubit.org/users/artur/Publications.html.

Administrative Responsibilities

2002- Head of the Cambridge-MIT Collaboration in quantum information science
2002- Director of the Centre for Quantum Computation, University of Cambridge
2002-2004 Member of the Research Committee, King’s College, Cambridge
2001-2002 University Examiner, Department of Physics, Oxford
2000-2002 Head of the IT Committee, Keble College, Oxford
1999-2002 Member of the Academic Planning Committee, Keble College, Oxford
1999-2002 Member of the Steering Committee for the European Science Foundation
Programme on Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation
1998-2002 Member of the Governing Body, Keble College, Oxford
1997-1998 Dean of Graduates, Merton College, Oxford
1997-1998 Tutor for Graduate Admissions, Merton College, Oxford
1996-1997 Member of the Publicity Committee, Department of Physics, Oxford
1995-1996 Member of the JRF Committee, Merton College, Oxford
1993-2002 Head of "Quantum Cryptography & Computation Group", Clarendon
Laboratory, Oxford (from 1999 "The Centre for Quantum Computation")
1991-1998 Member of the Governing Body, Merton College, Oxford