Professor Ekert is one of the pioneers in the field of QIP and one of the inventors of QKD. His 1991 paper on entanglement-based quantum key distribution is the most cited paper in quantum cryptography. In the field of quantum computation, Professor Ekert has contributed several important results ranging from mathematical analysis of quantum algorithms to proposals for experimental realizations of quantum logic gates.

Artur Ekert is the Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP),Universityof Cambridge. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore. For his independent discovery of quantum cryptography he was awarded the 1995 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the British Institute of Physics. In addition, Professor Ekert was a co-recipient of the 2004 European Union Descartes Prize. Artur Ekert has worked with and advised several companies and government agencies and has made a number of contributions to quantum information science. Since 1992 he has been in charge of the OxfordUniversitybased Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research group which has evolved into the Centre for Quantum Computation, now based at DAMTP in Cambridge.