Education
Nielsen obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1998 at the University of New Mexico.
Nielsen obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in physics in 1998 at the University of New Mexico.
In 2004 he was characterized as Australia"s "youngest academic" and secured a Federation Fellowship at the University of Queensland. The fellowship was for five years. With Isaac Chuang he is the co-author of a popular textbook on quantum computing.
In 2007, Nielsen announced a marked shift in his field of research: from quantum information and computation to “the development of new tools for scientific collaboration and publication”.
This work includes "massively collaborative mathematics" projects like the Polymath project with Timothy Gowers. Besides writing books and essays, he also gives talks about Open Science.
As of 2015, Nielsen works as a Research Fellow at the Recurse Center.
He is a member of the Working Group on Open Data in Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation.