Dr. Robert Bedington

Dr. Robert Bedington is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of SpeQtral, where he leads the company's tech team and guides technology strategy and product development, with a particular focus on satellite programmes. With over 18 years in space instrument development, Dr. Bedington is passionate about emerging tech, securing the worlds networks and delivering the infrastructure for the future quantum internet from space-based platforms. Before co-founding SpeQtral, Dr. Bedington served as Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was the Satellite Team Lead for the SpooQy-1 CubeSat mission. Earlier, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), researching the miniaturisation of satellite instrumentation for plasma analysis. Dr. Bedington holds a master’s degree in physics from Durham University and a PhD in Instrument Science from University C