Robert received an MA and MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge in 2012, followed by a PhD at Imperial College London in the area of laser physics and nonlinear fibre optics. After a further one-year fellowship at Imperial, he moved to Sydney, Australia to take up an MQ Research Fellowship at Macquarie University. In early 2019, Robert returned to Cambridge to join Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. as a Research Scientist developing quantum communication systems, as part of the UK Government’s Quantum Communications Hub.