Richard Jozsa
Richard Jozsa works on quantum algorithms, computational complexity and quantum information theory. He earned a D.Phil. at Oxford in 1981 and held academic posts in Canada, Australia and Britain before professorships at Bristol and Cambridge. With David Deutsch, he developed an early quantum algorithm with a provable exponential speedup, and he co-invented quantum teleportation with five collaborators. He received the Naylor Prize in 2004 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019. As of October 2026, he is an emeritus professor at Cambridge and a Bye-Fellow at King's College.
Timeline
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1981–1993
Oxford training and early posts
He completes a D.Phil. at Oxford in 1981 under Roger Penrose. His early academic posts span McGill, Sydney, UNSW, Adelaide, Flinders, RMIT and Oxford, and he serves at Montréal's DIRO as a research fellow in 1992–1993.
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1991–1992
The Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm
With David Deutsch, he develops a quantum algorithm in 1991 that is proved to run exponentially faster than any classical algorithm for the same task. They publish “Rapid Solution of Problems by Quantum Computation” in 1992.
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1993
Quantum teleportation
He co-invents quantum teleportation with Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Claude Crépeau, Asher Peres and William Wootters in a paper published in 1993.
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1994–2009
Plymouth and Bristol professorships
At Plymouth, he serves as Senior Lecturer and then Professor of Mathematical Physics from 1994 to 1999. He joins Bristol as Professor of Computer Science from 1999 to 2009.
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2004
The Naylor Prize
He receives the London Mathematical Society's Naylor Prize in 2004.
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2010–2021
Leigh Trapnell chair
He becomes Cambridge's Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics in 2010 and holds the post through 2021.
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2019
Fellow of the Royal Society
He is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019.
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As of October 2026
Emeritus professor and Bye-Fellow
He is Emeritus Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at Cambridge's DAMTP and a Bye-Fellow in Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. His research areas include quantum computation, quantum algorithms, computational complexity and quantum information theory.
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