Viacheslav Pavlovich Belavkin is a professor in applied mathematics at the University of Nottingham. He was born in Lwów, and graduated from Moscow State University in 1970.[1] In 1996, he and Ruslan L. Stratonovich were awarded the Main State Prize of the Russian Federation (formerly the Lenin Prize) for outstanding achievements in science and technology. An active researcher[2] [3] [4], he is one of the pioneers of quantum probability. His research spans areas such as quantum filtering, quantum information and quantum chaos.