Vivien Mary Kendon is a British physicist who is Professor of Quantum Technology at the University of Strathclyde.

[3] She moved to the University of Edinburgh for doctoral research, where she used numerical simulations to understand fluid dynamics.

[4] She then moved to the University of Strathclyde, where she shifted from soft condensed matter to quantum information theory.

[3] She joined Imperial College London in 2002, where she studied quantum walks on discrete lattices.

She held an EPSRC established career fellowship on Hybrid Quantum and Classical Computation from 2014 to 2019.