Professor Adrian Kent

Professor of Quantum Physics at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge

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Professor of Quantum Physics

Adrian completed a BA and MMath in Mathematics and a PhD in Theoretical Physics at Cambridge. After holding postdoctoral positions at the University of Chicago and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he returned to Cambridge, where he is currently Professor of Quantum Physics in Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and head of the Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

His main research is in the foundations of quantum theory and quantum information theory, and in applications to quantum cryptography, quantum computing and quantum communication.

He also has a strong interest in work on mitigating risks to humanity and in using science and technology to steer our future in beneficial directions, and is an affiliate of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

The Horn Fellowship

Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
Paul Davison

Department for Transport (DfT)

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge

Professor of Quantum Physics

Wolfson College Cambridge

Fellow

  • 14 November 2017, 5:30pm

    Can you handle the truth? Facts, figures and communicating uncertainty

    Chaired and hosted by Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, guest speakers include: Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority; and Amanda Farnsworth, Head of Visual and Data Journalism, BBC News.

  • In news articles

    Networks, information and money in the quantum age

    The first Horn Fellows seminar of 2021 looked at how quantum networks of information may bring transformative change to the internet, money and communication.