Prior to that he held a Canada Research Chair in the physics of information at McGill University.
He was a Canadian Mathematical Society Public Lecturer in 2008 and received a Simons Investigator Award in 2014.
[1] Since 2015 he has been the director of the It from Qubit: Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information.
[5] Hayden and John Preskill considered information retrieval from evaporating black holes.
Their study of a black hole's retention time for quantum information before it is revealed in the Hawking radiation; called the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment, turned out to be compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis.