Steinhardt, Ovrut, and their colleagues Justin Khoury of Princeton and Neil Turok of the DAMTP in Cambridge, England, call their model the ekpyrotic universe, from the Greek word for conflagration.
Since 1992 he has been in charge of the Oxford University based Quantum Computation and Cryptography Research group which has evolved into the Centre for Quantum Computation, now based at DAMTP in Cambridge.