Richard Jozsa

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Richard Jozsa

Residence UK
Nationality UK
Fields Computer scientist
Institutions University of Bristol
University of Plymouth
Université de Montréal
Alma mater University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor Roger Penrose
Doctoral students Stuart Presnell
Simone Severini
Known for Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm

Richard Jozsa is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. His research area is quantum information science; a pioneer of this field, he is the co-author of the Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm and one of the co-inventors of quantum teleportation. He has held previous positions at the University of Plymouth and the Université de Montréal.

He received his DPhil in Mathematics (specifically, twistor theory) at Oxford, under the supervision of Roger Penrose.