Contacts

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. 

Kenneth Brown is the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry at Duke University. He is the Director of the NSF Quantum Advantage Class Trapped Ion system (QACTI) project. He currently represents the Division of Quantum Information on the American Physical Society Council. He is on the Editorial Board of PRX Quantum. 

Brown's primary research interests are quantum control, quantum error correction, and ion-trap quantum systems. His current research areas are the development of robust quantum computers and the study of molecular properties at cold and ultracold temperatures. 

Harry Buhrman is chief scientist quantum algorithms & innovation at Quantinuum. He is also professor of algorithms, complexity theory, and quantum computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and founding director of QuSoft, a research center for quantum software, which he co-founded in 2015. In 2020 he was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He obtained a prestigious Vici-award, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and WACQT (Sweden), and IQC (Canadian). He co-founded the conference series Quantum Information Processing (QIP) and chaired the first steering committee.  

Buhrman’s current research interests are: Quantum Computing, Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Cryptography, Computational Complexity Theory, Kolmogorov complexity, Distributed Computing, Computational Learning Theory, and Computational Biology. 

Eleni Diamanti is CNRS research director at the LIP6 laboratory of Sorbonne University in Paris. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2006 and performed her postdoc as a Marie Curie fellow at the Institute of Optics Graduate School in Palaiseau before joining the CNRS in 2009. 

She is a recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant, director of the Paris Centre for Quantum Technologies, and was awarded the CNRS Silver and Innovation Medals in 2024. She also serves as member of the European Quantum Technologies Flagship Strategic Advisory Board, as an Associate Editor of the journal Optica, and is cofounder and scientific advisor of the start-up company Welinq that specializes in quantum interconnect technology. 

Diamanti's research focuses on experimental quantum cryptography and communication, and on the development of photonic resources and applications for quantum networks. 

Aram Harrow is a Professor of Physics at MIT where he has worked since 2013.  Previously he worked at the University of Bristol (2005-2010) and the University of Washington (2010-2012). His research focuses on quantum information and computing. 

He works to understand the capabilities of the quantum computers and quantum communication devices we will build in the future, and in the process, he creates connections to other areas of theoretical physics, mathematics and computer science. 

Yasunobu Nakamura is a Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Tokyo and the Director of the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing. He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2011. He’s received many honours and awards for his achievements in quantum research including being named an APS Fellow in 2020, and was awarded the Micius Quantum Prize in 2021 and the C&C Prize in 2023 to name a few. 

Nakamura’s current research interests are quantum information processing using superconducting circuits, microwave quantum optics, and hybrid quantum systems.   

Jun Ye is a Fellow of JILA and a Fellow of NIST.  He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of APS, and a Fellow of OSA.  Awards and honours include Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (Future Prize), Herbert Walther Award, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Micius Quantum Prize, N.F. Ramsey Prize, I.I. Rabi Award, US Presidential Rank Award (Distinguished, five Gold Medals from the U.S. Commerce Department, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Frew Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, I.I. Rabi Prize, European Frequency and Time Forum Award, Carl Zeiss Award, William F. Meggers Award, Adolph Lomb Medal, Arthur S. Flemming Award, Presidential Early Career Award, Friedrich Wilhem Bessel Award, Samuel Wesley Stratton Award, and Jacob Rabinow Award. He is one of the most highly cited researchers in experimental atomic physics in the world, having according to Google Scholar a h-index of 141 (As of 2025) and being regularly named as a Thomson-Reuters (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher.  

Ye's research focuses on the frontiers of light-matter interactions, including precision measurement, quantum science, ultracold matter, and frequency metrology.