William John Munro

Basic Research Laboratories
Optical Science lab.

The design and realization of quantum information enabled technologies

Apr. 1, 2016 -

William J. MUNRO received his B.Sc in Chemistry, M.Sc and D.Phil degrees in Physics from the University of Waikato (NZ) in 1989, 1991, and 1995 respectively. After several years in the computing industry, he returned to physics as a research fellow at the University of Queensland (Australia) from 1997-2000 before becoming a permanent staff scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Bristol (2000-2010). He joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation’s Basic Research Laboratories in 2010 as a research specialist before becoming a Senior Research Scientist in 2014. He promoted to the role of Distinguished Scientist of NTT in 2015 and Senior Distinguished Scientist from 2016. He is currently the director of NTT’s Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Physics as well as being the group leader of the theoretical quantum physics research group. His research interest range from foundational issues of quantum theory through to quantum information processing and its practical realization. Further he is currently a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Japan (2006 - ) and the University of Queensland in Australia (2012 - ). He was made a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2009, the American Physical Society (APS) in 2013 and the Optical Society of America (OSA) in 2014.

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