Education
In 1997 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory.
In 1997 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory.
He is a co-author of a measurement-based entanglement protocol and also the book Introduction to Optical Quantum Information Processing with Brendon Lovett. Kok was born in Friesland in the Netherlands. In 2001, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor.
His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation protocols, quantum teleportation and the interpretation of quantum theory.
Doctor Kok has worked in the Quantum Computing Technologies Group at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, England and at the Department of Materials in Oxford University. He is currently teaching and researching at the University of Sheffield.