Terry Rudolph (born 1973) is a professor of quantum physics at Imperial College London.
Notably, he is one of the discoverers of the PBR theorem, which allows for a formal and rigorous test on the ontology of quantum states.
This discovery has been hailed as one of the most important in the foundations of quantum theory since Bell's theorem.
[3] After finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland in 1994, a year of backpacking in Toronto, he decided to do a PhD and chose the nascent field of quantum information.
In 2016 he took a leave from academia and co-founded PsiQuantum, a Silicon Valley-based company that is building a photonic quantum computer.