John Preskill received the A.B. degree in physics from Princeton University in 1975, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1980.
In 1983, he joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology where he is now the John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director of the Institute for Quantum Information.
Prof. Preskill has twice been the recipient of the Associated Students of Caltech Teaching Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and was a holder of the Lorentz chair at the University of Leiden, as well as an Andrejewski Lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin, and a Rouse Ball Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.
His research interests include elementary particles, the very early universe, black holes, quantum gravity, quantum information, quantum computation, and quantum coding theory.
The University of Texas at Austin