Robert Spekkens

Robert W. Spekkens is a Canadian theoretical quantum physicist working in the fields of quantum foundations and quantum information.^[1][2][3]

Robert Spekkens
Nationality	Canadian
Citizenship	Canadian
Alma mater	McGill University, University of Toronto
Known for	Spekkens toy model; quantum contextuality
Awards	Birkhoff-von Neumann Prize of the International Quantum Structures Association (2008); FQXI Essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?" (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge University of Waterloo Griffith University

He is known for his work on epistemic view of quantum states (in particular the Spekkens toy model),^[4][5][6] quantum contextuality,^[7][8][9] quantum resource theories^[10][11] and quantum causality.^[12][13]

He co-edited the book Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils.^[14]

Career

Spekkens is a faculty member and the leader of the quantum causal inference initiative at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.^[15][16] He regularly teaches the course on quantum foundations in the Perimeter Scholars International master's program.^[17][18]

He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Physics of the University of Waterloo^[19] and an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Quantum Dynamics of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.^[15]

Awards

• 2012 FQXI Essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Assumptions Are Wrong?"^[20]