Jeremy O'Brien

Jeremy O'Brien, born in 1975 in Australia, is a physicist whose research covers quantum optics, optical quantum metrology and quantum information science, and he is a co-founder of the quantum computing company PsiQuantum. He was Professorial Research Fellow in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Bristol and directed its Centre for Quantum Photonics. His work in optical quantum computing included the demonstration of the first optical quantum controlled NOT gate, reported in a 2003 paper in Nature, and he later wrote a survey article on optical quantum computing for Science in 2007. PsiQuantum, which he co-founded in 2016 with Terry Rudolph, Peter Shadbolt and Mark Thompson, aims to build fault tolerant quantum computers from silicon photonics. His honours listed in the source article include the 2009 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award, the 2010 Adolph Lomb Medal and IUPAP Prize, and election to the Global Young Academy in 2011.