2013 onwards

2007-2013

2003-2007

2001-2003

2000

1996

1994

1992

1973

Research grants

Practical Quantum Digital Signatures, EPSRC, GBP 300k, 2013-2015

Quantum Digital Signatures, EPSRC, GBP 400k, 2009-2012; with Prof Gerald Buller

Royal Society International Joint project grant 2006-2008; with Prof Igor Jex, Prague

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship 2003-2007

EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship 2001-2003

Also awarded Royal Society of Edinburgh personal Research Fellowship 2003-2006 (declined).

In 2006-2008, I was a member of the IoP QQQ Committee (Quantum Information, Quantum Optics and Quantum Control).

APS Outstanding Referee, Feb 2008

Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review A 2011-present

Founding member of QuiSco, an interdisciplinary network of researchers based in Scotland who are interested in quantum information.

With S. M. Barnett, J. Jeffers and P. Ohberg, I organised the 7th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, 25-29 July 2004, at the University of Strathclyde.

With J. Jeffers, D. Oi, S. Virmani, A. Arnold, S. Barnett, E Riis and P. Ohberg, I organised the 67th Schottish Universities Summer School (SUSSP 67) on Quantum Information and Coherence, 28 July - 10 Aug 2011.

Reader in Physics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Lecturer in Physics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

EU Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

PhD in Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Thesis supervisor: Stig Stenholm

MSc in Physics, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Thesis supervisor: Markus Lindberg

II B piano exam, Conservatory of Turku, Finland

Music institute diploma, Conservatory of Turku, Finland

Born in Turku, Finland