Steven Jacob van Enk

Steven Jacob van Enk (born 1965) is a physicist on the faculty of the University of Oregon whose fields of study are theoretical quantum information and quantum optics.

Early life and education

Steven Jacob van Enk was born in 1965 in Veenendaal, the Netherlands and lived in Holland until 1993. He earned a Ph.D. at the Universiteit Leiden in 1992, with his dissertation titled, Light as a Thermodynamic Force, advised by Gerard Nienhuis.

Van Enk is a national FIDE Master chess player.

Career Van Enk held postdoc positions at the MaxPlanck Institute of Quantum Optics, at the University of Innsbruck, and at Caltech, where he worked with H. Jeff Kimble, a leading theorist in quantum information. Van Enk was then a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs for six years.

In 2006 Van Enk joined the University of Oregon Physics Department, where he became a full professor in 2009.

Selected publications

Awards, honors 2010 American Physical Society Fellow, cited "For pioneering contributions in theoretical quantum information and quantum optics, including entanglement verification, quantum communication and teleportation, and angular momentum of photons."