The people listed below reflect the Quantum Computing research community within universities and research institutes across British Columbia in Canada.
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University of British Columbia
Tor Aamodt
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Mona Berciu
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Sloan Research Fellowship
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar
Sarah Burke
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Nanoscience
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar
Lukas Chrostowski
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Scientific Director of the UBC Quantum Computing Research Cluster
Program Director for the new Quantum Computing Program
Former Program Director of NSERC CREATE Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (Si-EPIC) research training program
Elected Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Collaborator on the Canada Fund for Innovation (CFI) funded project, ‘The Silicon Quantum Leap: Tools for Building a Universal Quantum Computer’
Joshua Folk
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
CIFAR Fellow in Quantum Materials
Sloan Research Fellowship
Former Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in the Physics of Nanostructures
Michael Friedlander
IBM PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Director of UBC Institute of Applied Mathematics
Board of Directors of Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
Scientific Advisor at 1QBit
Bhushan Gopaluni
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Associate Dean for Education and Professional Development in the Faculty of Applied Science at UBC
Roman Krems
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Distinguished University Scholar by the University of British Columbia
Elected Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Named Kavli Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Science
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar
Mieszko Lis
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Kirk Madison
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
CIFAR Scholar in Quantum Materials Program (2008-2012)
Shahriar Mirabbasi
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Collaborator on the Canada Fund for Innovation (CFI) funded project, ‘The Silicon Quantum Leap: Tools for Building a Universal Quantum Computer’
Prashant Nair
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Robert Raussendorf
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Sloan Research Fellowship
Team Lead for the Quantum Matter Institute Grand Challenge, ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) Computers by Focusing on Quantum Materials Problems’
Co-lead on joint Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) project, ‘Quantum computational resources in the presence of symmetry’
Collaborator on the Canada Fund for Innovation (CFI) funded project, ‘The Silicon Quantum Leap: Tools for Building a Universal Quantum Computer’
Joe Salfi
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Co-lead on joint Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) project, ‘Industrially relevant spin-3/2 hybrid quantum devices’
Sudip Shekhar
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Philip Stamp
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Director of the Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics (PITP)
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Spinoza Chair in Condensed Matter Theory
Konrad Walus
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Steve Wilton
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Senior Member
Jeff Young
PROFESSOR, University of British Columbia
Collaborator on the Canada Fund for Innovation (CFI) funded project, ‘The Silicon Quantum Leap: Tools for Building a Universal Quantum Computer’
Simon Fraser University
Daria Ahrensmeier
EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT, Simon Fraser University
Chair, Division of Physics Education, Canadian Association of Physicists
Associate Editor, Physics Education, Canadian Journal of Physics
David Broun
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
CIFAR Fellow in Quantum Materials
J. Steven Dodge
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
CIFAR Associate Fellow in Quantum Materials
Erol Girt
PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Paul Haljan
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Igor Herbut
PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Marko Jaric Award (2017)
Malcolm Kennett
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Graduate Chair
Jeffrey McGuirk
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Stephanie Simmons
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Nanoelectronics
CIFAR Fellow in Quantum Information Science
Physics World Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics (2013 & 2015)
Collaborator on the Canada Fund for Innovation (CFI) funded project, ‘The Silicon Quantum Leap: Tools for Building a Universal Quantum Computer’
Jeff Sonier
PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Department Chair
CIFAR Associate Fellow in Quantum Materials
Michael Thewalt
PROFESSOR EMERITUS, Simon Fraser University
Project Leader for the Canada Fund for Innovation (CFI) funded project, ‘The Silicon Quantum Leap: Tools for Building a Universal Quantum Computer’
Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics
CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal
Rutherford Memorial Medal of the Royal Society of Canada
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
hoi-kwan (kero) lau
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Simon Fraser University
Theoretical Quantum Information Science Group at SFU
Research interests: theoretical quantum optics, quantum information theory, hybrid quantum systems, continuous-variable quantum technologies
University of Victoria
Alexandre Brolo
PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Director of the Centre for Advanced Materials and Related Technologies (CAMTEC)
Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) W.A.E. McBryde Medal 2020
Rogério de Sousa
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Collaborator on the Canada Fund for Innovation (CFI) funded project, ‘The Silicon Quantum Leap: Tools for Building a Universal Quantum Computer’
University of Victoria Faculty of Science Award for Research Excellence (2013/2014)
Nikitas Dimopoulos
PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Lansdowne Chair in Computer Engineering
Reuven Gordon
PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Nanoplasmonics
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow of the Society for Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Hausi Muller
PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Faculty Fellow of the Year Award IBM Center for Advanced Studies
IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Distinguished Service Award
IEEEComputer Society Golden Core Member
Irina Paci
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Ulrike Stege
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science
Thomas Tiedje
PROFESSOR, University of Victoria
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Herzberg Medal
TRIUMF
Jens Dilling
ASSOCIATE LABORATORY DIRECTOR FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES, TRIUMF
American Physical Society Francis M Pipkin Award
Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics