Petros Wallden

• Reader (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (since 2023)

• 2003-2006 PhD, Theoretical Physics, Imperial College, UK
• 2002-2003 Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK
• 1999-2002 BSc, Physics with Theoretical Physics, Imperial College, UK

• 2018-2023 Lecturer (Asisstant Professor), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• 2014-2018 Research Associate, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• 2013-2014 Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK
• 2009-2013 Adjunct Lecturer, Technological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Greece
• 2009-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Athens, Greece
• 2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Raman Research Insitute, India

• Program Committee (here)
• ACISP2016, ACISP2017, ACISP2020
• QCrypt2019
• Editorial Services (here)
• Editorial Board for the Journal Quantum
• Editorial Board for the Journal Cryptography
• Editor for the Proceedings of PKC2020 LNCS
• Editor for the Special Issue on Quantum Cryptography and Cyber Security
• Other Committees (here)
• General Chair for PKC2021, the International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography 2021 (link)
• General Chair for PKC2020, the International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography 2020 (link)
• Management Committee Member for COST Action MP1006 Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics 2012-2015 (website)
• Reviewing (here)
• Research Councils: EPSRC (UK), H2020 (EU), ERC (EU), NSF (US), NWO (Netherlands), FWF (Austria), NERC (Canada), SNF (Switzerland), NSC (Poland)
• Journals and Conferences: Many including Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, New Journal of Physics, Crypto, QCrypt, EuroCrypt, STOC, LICS, QIP, TQC
• Conference Organisation (here)

• STFC Quantum Software for a Digital Universe (PI) QuSoDU
• EPSRC Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub (co-I) QCS Hub.
  Leads the Quantum Software WP (since 2023)
• EPSRC Collaborative Computational Project Quantum Computing (co-I) CCP-QC.
  Deputy co-chair
• EPSRC Quantum Advantage Pathdinder (co-I) QAP.
  Co-founder of the Quantum Software Lab
• DTP PhD Studentship (PI), student Milos Prokop
• DTP PhD Studentship (PI), student Stuart Ferguson
• DTP PhD Studentship (PI), student Sean Thrasher
• Past Funding (here)
• ISCF Feasibility Study, Noise Analysis and Mitigation for Scalable Quantum Computation (PI) NAMiSQ
• APRF, Quantum Computing for Modern Cryptography (PI) QCMC
• DTP PhD Studentship, Nonlocal and Relativistic Protocols for Quantum Cryptography (PI), student Sean Adamson
• SICSA Cyber Nexus, Workshop "Cyber Security in the Age of Quantum Computing" 02/2019
• Short Term Scientific Mission, European COST Action MP1006, Imperial College 03-04/2013
• Personal Postdoctoral Fellowship, State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) of Greee 2009 - 2010
• Personal PhD Studentship, A.G. Leventis Foundation 2003 - 2005

• Full list (here)
• Selected Publications (here)
• QFactory: classically-instructed remote secret qubits preparation A. Cojocaru, L. Colisson, E. Kashefi, P. Wallden ASIACRYPT (2019)
• Robustness and device independence of verifiable quantum computing A. Gheorghiu, E. Kashefi and P. Wallden, NJP (2015)
• Quantum Digital Signatures without Quantum Memory V. Dunjko, P. Wallden and E. Andersson, PRL (2014)
• A histories perspective on characterizing quantum non-locality F. Dowker, J. Henson and P. Wallden, NJP (2014)
• Realization of Quantum Digital Signatures without the Requirement of Quantum Memory R. Collins et al (incl P. Wallden), PRL (2014) (Featured in Physics & Editors' Suggestion)
• Free-space quantum signatures using heterodyne detection C. Croal et al (incl P. Wallden), PRL (2016)
• Citations from Google Scholar (here)

Dr. Petros Wallden
petros.wallden@ed.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 650 2962
Address: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street,
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, Scotland, UK