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Dr Jonte Hance

Head of the Quantum Group, EPSRC Quantum Technologies Career Acceleration Fellow, & Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

  • Email: jonte.hance@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 191 208 7856
  • Personal Website:
  • Address: Room 6.035, Urban Sciences Building
    1 Science Square,
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne,
    NE4 5TG,
    United Kingdom
Background

I'm currently Head of the Quantum Group, and a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), in the School of Computing at 缅北禁地. I was previously Interim Head of the AMBER Group (2025). I'm also an . I have a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and an MSci in Physics and Philosophy, both from the University of Bristol. After my PhD, I spent 11 months as a Phoenix Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hiroshima University before starting at 缅北禁地.

I have published 27 articles so far, in high-impact journals (such as Nature Physics, npj Quantum Information, and Quantum Science and Technology). I have served as a peer reviewer over 100 times for various academic journals, and am part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) Talent Peer Review College, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College, and Quantum Technologies Early Career Forum, as well as the British Council Peer Review College. I've also published three Opinion pieces (two in Physics World, one in Quantum Views), and contributed to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology's recent , and . I am on the Editorial Board for the UK Institute of Physics (IOP)'s , and am a Guest Editor for the IOP's 's , and a Theme Issue of . I am co-Chair for the IOP's upcoming flagship conference, , and am on the Conference Organising Committee for the IOP's . I am on the Executive Committee for the American Physical Society's , and on the Group Committees for the IOP's , , and .

I currently hold an (worth £1.7 million fEC, plus £275k in-kind contributions from Project Partners), funding 50% of my time plus two PDRAs ( and ) from 2025-2030. I am using this to begin building my own lab, the Applied Quantum Foundations Lab, within the Quantum Group in the School of Computing. I have also recently joined the £12.8 million fEC EPSRC National Edge AI Hub as a Co-Investigator, to lead the new Quantum Machine Learning Research Theme. I am Co-Investigator on the £1.3 million fEC UKRI Cross Research Council Responsive Mode Grant Quantum Emotions: Using the Quantum Formalism to explain temporal order effects in memory for emotional events (2026-28), and the £111k fEC EPSRC Mathematical Science Small Grant Using Quantum Weirdness to Solve (NP-)Hard Problems (2026).

I was just named one of the for the United Nations' International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.

Research

I research at the intersection of quantum foundations and quantum technologies: using quantum foundations to uncover new phenomena that can be used to develop new quantum technologies, and using quantum technologies to experimentally test models proposed in quantum foundations.

Most quantum technologies were originally based on quantum foundational work. For instance, quantum key distribution was developed from the uncertainty principle and no-cloning theorem, quantum computation (by Deutsch’s own account) was developed from quantum parallelism and interference, and quantum metrology was developed from consideration of quantum measurement and back action, and the leveraging of entanglement and squeezing.

My work contributes to the underpinning science of quantum technologies, showing how quantum foundational ideas can be adapted into quantum technological applications. It also shows quantum technologies can benefit quantum foundations – how these technologies can be utilised to test foundational hypotheses and demonstrate foundational principles. Therefore, this work demonstrates the interplay between quantum foundations and quantum technologies.

Worldwide, there is currently a race to develop useful quantum technologies. The fact that all quantum technologies were initially based on theoretical quantum foundational work illustrates how critically important quantum foundational research is, and why foundational work is necessary if we want to develop truly new quantum technologies (rather than just making short-term minor enhancements to current technologies).

Teaching

Here at 缅北禁地, I teach on the BSc Computer Science's Stage 2 (second-year) module CSC2034: Introducing Contemporary Topics in Computing, for which I run the Quantum Computing topic, plus teach academic skills (how to research, how to do academic writing, how to read an academic paper, etc). I am also the Module Leader for CSC3132: Introduction to Quantum Computing, and am developing a new module CSC:3133: Quantum Algorithms (starting 2026/27). I have just earnt full Fellowship of the UK's Advance-HE (FHEA).

I am currently supervising two PDRAs ( and , both funded through my EPSRC QTCA Fellowship) and one PhD candidate (Viktorija Bezganovic). I have previously supervised 3 MSc Advanced Computer Science project students, 2 MSc Computer Science project students, 3 BSc Computer Science final-year project students, 3 summer research interns (funded through my Royal Society Research Grant), and one PhD student, , for his three-month first-year project at the University of Bristol's Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Engineering. I have also co-supervised 7 final-year BSc Psychology students cross-faculty for their Empirical Project (PSY3097) with my collaborator Dr Barbara-Anne Robertson. I was one of the American Physical Society's 2023/24 cohort of Career Mentoring Fellows, and continue mentoring undergraduate and high-school students through the APS.

At the University of Bristol, I served as a Graduate Teacher Level 1 and 2 (Teaching Assistant) for over 400 hours on 8 separate units across the School of Physics, Department of Engineering Mathematics and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This included significant solo teaching in mathematics for physicists and engineers, and in quantum mechanics and quantum information. While doing this, I passed the PGCert Academic Practice unit AFACM0019: Engaging Higher Education Students in their Learning (University of Bristol, 30 credits), earning Associate Fellowship of the UK's Advance-HE.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Sagawa Y, Hance JR, Hofmann HF, Ono T. . Physical Review A 2026, 113(1), 012221.
    • Hance JR. . Physics World 2025, 38, 21-21.
    • Tezzin A, Amaral B, Hance JR. . Physical Review A 2025, 112, 052208.
    • Salih H, Hance JR, McCutcheon W, Rarity J. . npj Quantum Information 2025, 11, 100.
    • Tezzin A, Amaral B, Hance JR. . Physical Review A 2025, 112(5), L050202.
    • Hance JR. . Physics World 2025, 38(7), 17-17.
    • Hance JR, Palmer T, Rarity JG. . Physica Scripta 2025, 100(6), 065123.
    • Salih H, Hance JR, McCutcheon W, Rudolph T, Rarity J. . Journal of Physics Communications 2025, 9(4), 045004.
    • Ji M, Hance JR, Hofmann HF. . New Journal of Physics 2024, 26(6), 063021.
    • Adlam E, Hance JR, Hossenfelder S, Palmer TN. . Proceedings of the Royal Society A 2024, 480(2294), 20230779.
    • Hance JR, Ladyman J, Rarity JG. . New Journal of Physics 2024, 26, 073038.
    • Hance JR. . Journal of Physics: Photonics 2024, 7(1), 012001.
    • Hance JR, Matsushita T, Hofmann HF. . Quantum Science and Technology 2024, 9(4), 045015.
    • Hance JR. . Journal of Physics Communications 2024, 8(12), 122001.
    • Hance JR, Hossenfelder S. . Physical Review A 2024, 109(2), 026201.
    • Hance JR. . Quantum Views 2024, 8, 83.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J, Ladyman J. . Physical Review Research 2023, 5(2), 023048.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J, Ladyman J. . Physical Review Research 2023, 5(4), 048002.
    • Hance JR, Ji M, Hofmann HF. . New Journal of Physics 2023, 25, 113028.
    • Hance JR, Hossenfelder S. . Journal of Physics Communications 2022, 6(10), 102001.
    • Hance JR, Hossenfelder S. . Proceedings of the Royal Society A 2022, 478(2262), 20210705.
    • Salih H, McCutcheon W, Hance JR, Rarity J. . npj Quantum Information 2022, 8, 60.
    • Hance JR, Hossenfelder S, Palmer TN. . Foundations of Physics 2022, 52, 81.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J, Ladyman J. . Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations 2022, 9, 333-341.
    • Hance JR, Hossenfelder S. . Nature Physics 2022, 18, 1382.
    • Hance JR, Ladyman J, Rarity J. . Foundations of Physics 2021, 51, 12.
    • Salih H, Hance JR, McCutcheon W, Rudolph T, Rarity J. . New Journal of Physics 2021, 23, 013004.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . npj Quantum Information 2021, 7, 88.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . Optik 2021, 243, 167451.
    • Hance JR, Sinclair GF, Rarity J. . Journal of Physics: Photonics 2021, 3(2), 025003.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Hofmann HF, Kodama Y, Hance JR. . In: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications. 2025, San Diego: SPIE.
    • Hance JR, Ji M, Hofmann HF. . In: Quantum 2.0 2024. 2024, Rotterdam Netherlands: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hofmann HF, Hance JR, Matsushita T, Ji M, Iinuma M. . In: Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging XXII. 2024, San Diego, California, United States: SPIE.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: Optica Advanced Photonics Congress 2022. 2022, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition. 2022, Boston, MA, United States: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2022 (AIS, LACSEA, Sensors, ES). 2022, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim 2022. 2022, Sapporo, Japan: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2021). 2021, Munich, Germany: IEEE.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 2021, San Jose, California: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2021. 2021, Washington DC, United States: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hance JR, Rarity J. . In: OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 2021 (AIS, FTS, HISE, SENSORS, ES). 2021, Washington DC, United States: Optica Publishing Group.
    • Hance J, McCutcheon W, Yard P, Rarity J. . In: Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM) V: Quantum Technologies. 2019, Rome, Italy: Optica Publishing Group.

  • Online Publication

    • Bailey L, Osborne T, Wisby I, Hensinger W, Reck Miranda E, Muskett S, Parker R, Spencer J, Jain A, Worrall C, Hance JR. . Labour Tech, 2025. Available at: .

  • Report

    • Wilkes S, Brawley S, Benjamin S, Brierley S, Chalupczak W, Cielecki D, Cubitt T, Haji M, Hammond A, Hance J, Herbert S, Heyworth-Thomas E, Holynski M, Jacquier J, Jones R, Klassen J, Legh-Smith R, Lewis R, Lindstrom T, Maroso G, Maynard C, McKnight L, Millen J, Morton J, Nguyen NK, O'Brien D, Parker E, Plant S, Reed M, Salvi C, Spiller T, Ten-Holter C, Tomassini F, Venables S, Venegas-Gomez A, Webber-Date A, Whiteman R. . London: Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, 2025. POSTnote 742.