Professor Andrew Briggs
Professor of Nanomaterials
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Biography
Biographical information is not available at present.
Biography
Andrew Briggs is Emeritus Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford and Executive Chairman of QuantrolOx. His research interests focus on nanomaterials for quantum technologies with machine learning for controlling the experiments, and the nanoscale thermodynamics of timekeeping and learning. From 2002-2009, he directed the UK Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Quantum Information Processing. From 2010-2020 he led grant making by Templeton World Charity Foundation. In 2021 he co-founded QuantrolOx to commercialise machine learning for tuning and characterizing quantum devices, with performance that greatly exceeds what is feasible for humans.
He is a Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion, and Member of Academia Europaea, and serves on many advisory boards. He has over 650 publications, with more than 30,000 citations.
His books for a general readership include “The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions”, for which there is a documentary film and a six-book series for children; “It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion”; and “Human Flourishing: Scientific Insight and Spiritual Wisdom in Uncertain Times”. His most recent book carries endorsements by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Astronomer Royal, and has won an ISSR 2023 Book Prize.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
ISSR Book Prize 2023
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Protestantism, History of Science, Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Information Technology, Physics
Website
Publications
The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions
Oxford University Press 2016
Co-authors: Roger Wagner
It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion
Oxford University Press 2018
Co-authors: Hans Halvorson and Andrew Steane
Human Flourishing: Scientific insight and spiritual wisdom in uncertain times
Oxford University Press 2021
Co-authors: Michael J. Reiss
