Stephanie Simmons

Stephanie is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Silicon Quantum Technologies, as well as a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow in Quantum Information Science, and Associate Professor at the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University (SFU). At SFU, she leads the Silicon Quantum Technology research group.

Her work on developing CMOS-compatible, scalable, quantum technologies was awarded a Physics World Top Ten Breakthrough of the Year of 2013, and again in 2015. She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science at Oxford University in 2011 as a Clarendon Scholar and a B.Math, Double Degree (Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Physics) from the University of Waterloo. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of New South Wales in Australia and completed her Junior Research Fellowship and Glasstone Research Fellowship at St. John’s College in Oxford University. She joined SFU as a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Nanoelectronics in the fall of 2015.