Samuel Leon Braunstein (born 1961) is a professor at the University of York, UK. He is a member of a research group in non-standard computation, and has a particular interest in quantum information, quantum computation and black hole thermodynamics. Braunstein has written or edited three books and has published more than one hundred and forty papers, which have been cited over thirty-two thousand times. His most important work was on quantum teleportation, and published in a paper titled Unconditional Quantum Teleportation. The paper has been cited more than three thousand times and has received significant coverage in both the scientific and mainstream press. In February 2006, Braunstein made the news due to his involvement in the first successful demonstration of Quantum telecloning. From 2009, he began to research on black hole thermodynamics, he especially contributed to the Black hole information paradox and the Firewall paradox. Braunstein co-authored papers with Gilles Brassard and Simone Severini, with whom he introduced the Braunstein-Ghosh-Severini Entropy of a graph.<ref> Education He completed his PhD in 1988 at Caltech, under Carlton M. Caves with a thesis entitled: Novel Quantum States and Measurements. Academic career University of Melbourne - BSc and MSc in Physics California Institute of Technology - PhD in Physics, awarded in 1988 University of Arizona, USA - Research Associate (1988 - 1991) Technion, Israel - Lady Davis Fellow (1991 - 1993) Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel - Feinberg Fellow (1993 - 1995) University of Ulm, Germany - Humboldt Fellow (1995 - 1996) School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor, UK - Lecturer through Professor (1996 - 2003) Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK - Professor (2003-) Awards and honors 2001 — Fellow of the Institute of Physics 2003 — Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2008 — Fellow of The Optical Society 2011 — Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Books Samuel L. Braunstein: Quantum Computing: Where Do We Want To Go Tomorrow?, Wiley-VCH, Samuel L. Braunstein and Hoi-Kwong Lo: Scalable Quantum Computers: Paving the Way to Realization, Wiley-VCH, Samuel L. Braunstein and Arun K. Pati (Eds.): Quantum Information with Continuous Variables, Springer, See also Quantum Aspects of Life Arun K. Pati Continuous-variable quantum information Notes External links Sam Braunstein's homepage Abstract and PDF of Unconditional Quantum Teleportation Braunstein's math genealogy Living people 1961 births Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders Australian physicists Australian Jews Quantum physicists