Anne Broadbent

Anne Broadbent is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Ottawa, where she holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications and Cryptography. She previously held the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing. 

Broadbent was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and a CIFAR Global Scholar at the IQC. She earned both her M.Sc. and Ph.D. under the supervision of Gilles Brassard and Alain Tapp at the Université de Montréal. She also holds a B.Math in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo. 

In 2016, she was awarded the Aisenstadt Prize for her contributions to quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information. 

Broadbent is known internationally for numerous foundational research contributions to the broad theme of quantum cryptography including concepts such as blind quantum computing, quantum zero-knowledge proofs, uncloneable encryption and certified deletion.