Quantum for Business & Leadership

A pioneer of diagrammatic reasoning in quantum theory. Bob Coecke spent twenty years at the University of Oxford, where he co-founded and led the Quantum Group, before moving to industry as Chief Scientist at Quantinuum. He continues to supervise students at Oxford and elsewhere, and still teaches at Oxford’s Mathematical Institute.

Dusko Pavlovic’s research has moved from pure mathematics, through theoretical computer science and software engineering, to network computation and security, with excursions into quantum computation and game theory. Born in Sarajevo, he studied mathematics in Utrecht and worked at McGill before turning to computer science at Imperial College London. In 1999 he left academia for software research in Palo Alto, and later returned to it as a professor at Royal Holloway, Twente and Hawaii.

Aleks Kissinger works on quantum software: quantum compilation, fault-tolerant quantum computing, and the classical simulation and verification of quantum computations. Much of his work draws on diagrammatic and graph-theoretic ways of reasoning about quantum systems. With Bob Coecke he wrote Picturing Quantum Processes, a fully diagrammatic treatment of quantum theory.

Matty Hoban works on quantum information and the foundations of quantum computing, and on where the two meet, especially when quantum non-locality is involved. He is interested in how quantum information differs from its non-quantum counterpart, and in how that difference can be used in cryptography and in verifying quantum devices. Before joining Oxford he was a senior research scientist in quantum cryptography at Quantinuum.

John van de Wetering studies how diagrams can improve the way we reason about quantum computation: he uses the ZX-calculus for quantum circuit optimisation, classical simulation and verification. His second line of research is in quantum foundations, where he works with algebraic and compositional methods. He directs the University of Amsterdam’s master’s programme in Quantum Computer Science.

Her research formalises where quantum computer architectures, quantum error correction, quantum graphical calculi and models of quantum computation meet. Her wider interests include quantum algorithms for physics and chemistry, quantum circuit synthesis and complexity, and quantum education.

A developmental cognitive scientist with a longstanding interest in multidisciplinary approaches to education. Her research focuses on the cognitive processes behind human educability and reasoning, educational interventions and brain stimulation, and on how quantum science can change the way complex ideas are taught.