Peter Leek

Peter obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2006, working with Prof. Charles Smith on combining surface acoustic waves with carbon nanotubes to build mesoscopic charge pumps. Peter then went on to work as a PDRA with Prof. Andreas Wallraff at ETH Zurich, on superconducting quantum circuits and circuit quantum electrodynamics between 2006-2010. Peter subsequently worked with Prof. Klaus Ensslin between 2010-2011, on the realisation of circuit QED with semiconductor quantum dots, in collaboration with the Wallraff group. In 2012 Peter set up a superconducting circuit research activity at the University of Oxford, funded by EPSRC career acceleration and ERC career integration grants. Since 2012, Peterʼs group have worked on a range of hybrid and superconducting circuit QED research (see publications, research). In 2017 Peter founded the spin-out company Oxford Quantum Circuits which is working on commercialising quantum computers that harness innovations from the group’s research.