Biography: Prof. Mark Fox received his MA and Doctor’s degrees in physics from the University of Oxford and is now Professor of Optical Physics at the University of Sheffield. He is a Fellow of Optica and the Institute of Physics. He has more than 250 publications covering a wide range of topics in semiconductor photonics and quantum optics. In recent years he has been focusing his research on III-V semiconductor quantum dots, with a special interest in their application in quantum technologies. He is the author of two textbooks in the Oxford Masters Series in Physics: Optical Properties of Solids (2nd Edition 2010) and Quantum Optics: an Introduction (2006).