History of the Group

Our group was first established in 2004, when Vlatko Vedral became Professor of Quantum Information Science in Leeds. In 2009, Vlatko moved to Oxford and Tim Spiller from HP Labs in Bristol became the new head of group. In 2014, Tim moved to York to become the Director of the UK Quantum Technology Hub for Quantum Communications Technologies.

Since 2014, the group has grown and its research has started to cover a much broader set of areas than just Quantum Information Science. Consequently, the group changed its name into Theoretical Physics Group and is currently lead by Almut Beige. In 2025, celebrating the Year of Quantum, we changed our name to the Quantum Group to better highlight our contributions to our main research area. As of 2025, the group consists of eight academics. In addition, we have strong collaborations with many other groups and schools within the University of Leeds, the UK and worldwide.

Our current research into novel materials and quantum many-body physics has applications in Condensed Matter Physics, including the practical realisation of quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum metrology.