Dr. Stephanie Simmons

Stephanie Simmons is the Founder and Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic. She is globally-renowned expert in quantum technologies, silicon spin-photon interfaces, condensed matter spin dynamics and control, silicon integrated photonics, and quantum optics. Stephanie is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Nanoelectronics, as well as a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow in Quantum Information Science, and Assistant 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.