Richard Jozsa is the holder of the Leigh Trapnell Chair in Quantum Physics at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

. His research area is quantum information science

Quantum information science

Quantum information science is an area of study based on the idea that information science depends on quantum effects in physics. It includes theoretical issues in computational models as well as more experimental topics in quantum physics including what can and cannot be done with quantum...

; a pioneer of this field, he is the co-author of the Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm

Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm

The Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm is a quantum algorithm, proposed by David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa in 1992 with improvements by Richard Cleve, Artur Ekert, Chiara Macchiavello, and Michele Mosca in 1998...

 and one of the co-inventors of quantum teleportation

Quantum teleportation

Quantum teleportation, or entanglement-assisted teleportation, is a process by which a qubit can be transmitted exactly from one location to another, without the qubit being transmitted through the intervening space...

. His work was recognised in 2004 by the London Mathematical Society

London Mathematical Society

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 with the award of the Naylor Prize for 'his fundamental contributions to the new field of quantum information science'.

Jozsa received his DPhil in Mathematics (specifically, twistor theory

Twistor theory

In theoretical and mathematical physics, twistor theory maps the geometric objects of conventional 3+1 space-time into geometric objects in a 4 dimensional space with metric signature...

) at Oxford, under the supervision of Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...

. He has held previous positions at the University of Bristol

University of Bristol

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, the University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

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 and the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

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