User:Andrew M. Steane

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Andrew Steane was born in Bath, England (1965) and educated at Christ’s Hospital (school) and Oxford University. He graduated with a BA in physics in 1987. He completed a D.Phil. thesis “Laser cooling of atoms” in Oxford in 1991. From 1990–1992 he was a Junior Research Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. During 1993–1994 he was a European post-doctoral fellow at the Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, Paris. From 1995–1999 he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow, based at the University of Oxford, during which period he was also a Fellow by Special Election of St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1996–1999) and a Lecturer in Physics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1998–1999). In 1999 he became a University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Physics of Exeter College, Oxford. He was awarded the title of Professor in 2002. He has been a guest researcher at various institutes and universities, including, for example, the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Innsbruck; University of Ulm. He has acted as a doctoral thesis examiner for various universities.

His scientific research concerns the coherent manipulation of atoms and quantum information theory, and also various areas in the foundations of physics. He initiated the ion trap quantum computing experiments at the University of Oxford. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2000 for his work on quantum error correction. He has given numerous public lectures and school demonstrations in physics. He is the author of several textbooks in undergraduate physics, and of books on science and religion. He has taught Sunday school groups for many years at St Andrew’s church, Linton Road, Oxford and other churches in Oxford and Paris. He is married to Emma Steane (since 1996). They have three children.