We are delighted to announce Prof Gerard Milburn is our first NQCC Quantum Fellow.
Gerard is a pioneer in quantum technologies having worked extensively in the fields of Quantum Computing, Quantum Optics, Quantum Measurement and Control, and Quantum Machine Learning. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of The Royal Society of London and The American Physical Society has published over 290 peer-reviewed papers with over 26,000 citations as well as co-authoring several scientific monographs and books on quantum optics and photonics.
Gerard received his BSc (Hons) in Physics from Griffith University (Australia) in 1980. He completed his PhD in physics under Daniel Frank Walls at the University of Waikato (New Zealand) in 1982, with a thesis entitled Squeezed States and Quantum Non-demolition Measurements. Following his PhD, Gerard joined Imperial College in the Department of Mathematics and was soon awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to work in the Quantum Optics group of Sir Peter Knight.
Gerard has had an outstanding academic career in Australia initially at The Australian National University and later at The University of Queensland where he served as Head of the Department of Physics in the 1990s and later as Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology from 2000-2010. He was the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Canadian Institute for Quantum Computing and served on the scientific advisory committee for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2007 to 2010 and from 2011 to 2017 he was the Director and Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems.
Gerard was instrumental in providing strategic advice to the fledging UK National Quantum Technologies Programme and has provided International oversight in support of the NQTP Strategic Advisory Board throughout the first decade of the UK programme.
Gerard commented, “The UK’s quantum technology strategy has successfully translated the nation’s strengths in fundamental quantum research into transformative new products and services. I am thrilled to be joining the NQCC as it begins to deliver quantum computing capabilities for the UK.”
It is our pleasure to welcome Gerard back to the UK and the NQCC.