
Nicholas A Peters
Section Head & Distinguished Research and Development Staff in The Quantum Information Science Section
Bio
Nicholas A. Peters received the B.A. degree summa cum laude in physics and mathematics from Hillsdale College, in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.
In 2006, he joined Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research - Bellcore) as a Senior Research Scientist, which later became Applied Communication Sciences (ACS). In 2012, he was promoted to Senior Scientist at ACS. In 2015, he joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as Senior Research and Development Staff Member and strategic hire. From 2016-2021, he was appointed Joint Faculty Assistant Professor to The Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In 2017, he was appointed to lead ORNL's quantum communications team. In 2019, he became the Group Leader for ORNL's Quantum Information Science Group. In 2021, he was promoted to Distinguished Research and Development Staff and later that year, inaugural Section Head of the Quantum Information Science Section. He has been a visiting researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology-Boulder, The Ohio State University, and Princeton University.
He is a Member of The American Physical Society (APS) a Senior Member of Optica (formerly OSA) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is an active referee, primarily for APS journals, and has served as an Associate Editor for Optics Express from 2016 to 2022.