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returns to the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ campus where he completed his BMath in the Departments of Pure Mathematics and Combinatorics & Optimization.

After completing his undergraduate studies at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Slofstra continued to the University of California, Berkeley for his PhD in Mathematics. Before taking on a position as the Kreneger Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis where he has spent the last three years, he spent six months as a Research Associate at the University of British Columbia.

His research has focused on algebra, specifically in Lie theory/ representation theory, Schubert calculus and connected areas. In quantum information, Slofstra’s work has focused on non-local games; an active and important area of research in quantum computation. Non-local games give an example of a distributed computational task where entanglement can improve performance. This has applications in other tasks in quantum information including entanglement verification and quantum key distribution.

His research aims to:

• Apply Lie theory/representation theory, Schubert calculus and connected areas to quantum information.
• Identify new classes of tractable non-local games that might be especially suitable for practical applications.

While an undergraduate at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Slofstra started working in quantum information science with Richard Cleve; this resulted in a publication on .