Professor Ronald Hanson of the Faculty of Applied Sciences (AS) and the QuTech Institute has been appointed Distinguished Professor in Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet. The  title of Distuinguished Professor is reserved for full professors who are important figureheads in specific fields both at and outside the university.

Ronald Hanson is internationally regarded as one of the leading quantum scientists of his generation. He is a pioneering researcher of perhaps the most fascinating phenomenon in physics: quantum entanglement. Under his leadership, the existence of quantum entanglement was conclusively demonstrated for the first time in 2015, putting an end to a debate initiated 80 years earlier by Einstein. Quantum entanglement is at the basis of research into quantum networks and quantum computers and the eventual development of a quantum internet, an internet that is inherently safe. It was only one of the milestones in Hanson's still relatively young scientific career.  Read more