Pete Shadbolt is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at PsiQuantum. He has worked on quantum computing for the last 15 years. Pete has a PhD in experimental quantum photonics from the University of Bristol and completed a postdoc in the theory group at Imperial College in London. In 2016, Pete and his co-founders moved to Palo Alto, California to start PsiQuantum.

PsiQuantum’s only goal is to build and deploy a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The company’s photonic approach allows it to leverage high-volume semiconductor manufacturing and existing cryogenic infrastructure to rapidly scale its systems. In 2024, PsiQuantum announced that it will build its first utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia and Chicago, Illinois.