Viv Kendon

Vivien Mary Kendon is a British physicist who is Professor of Quantum Technology at the University of Strathclyde. Her research considers quantum computation and the properties of quantum walks. She is the director of the Computational Collaborative Project: Quantum Computing, which looks to develop useful applications of quantum computers.

Early life and education She lived on Station Road in Carlton. She gained 9 O-levels in 1974 at Carlton le Willows School, which was a grammar school until 1973.

Kendon was an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford. She moved to the University of Edinburgh for doctoral research, where she used numerical simulations to understand fluid dynamics. She then moved to the University of Strathclyde, where she shifted from soft condensed matter to quantum information theory. In 2004, she moved into industry to work in global electronic networking.

In 2020, Kendon launched the Computational Collaborative Project: Quantum Computing, which looks to develop the first useful applications of quantum computers. She moved to the University of Strathclyde in 2021.

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