Geoff Pryde is the Chief Technical Director for PsiQuantum in Australia, a role that merges technical advancement and partnerships as the company drives towards building the world’s first useful-scale quantum computer in Brisbane.
Geoff and co-workers demonstrated the world’s first all-optical two-qubit logic gate, a fundamental building block of a quantum computer, in Brisbane in 2003. He subsequently founded the Quantum Optics and Information Laboratory at Griffith University, which has produced breakthrough results at the international forefront of quantum information science and technology.
Geoff has received the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, and is Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of Optica.