IQC student receives NSERC 2013 André Hamer Postgraduate Prize

IQC masters student Jean-Philippe MacLean selected to receive a prestigious André Hamer Postgraduate Prize from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Jean-Philippe MacLean, a master’s student in physics and astronomy specializing in quantum information at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), has been selected to receive a NSERC 2013 Andre Hamer Postgraduate prize.

MacLean joined IQC in September 2013 after completing his undergraduate studies at McGill. He is working with IQC researchers on quantum information processing, in particular creating entangled photon sources for quantum memory. He has participated in research at Institut Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics (Brisbane) and a student exchange with University of New South Wales (Sydney).

MacLean is an active member of IQC participating in the IQC Graduate Students Association, scientific outreach activities and the university Nordic ski varsity club. MacLean also participated in IQC’s Undergraduate School in Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP) in the summer of 2013.

*Photo courtesy of NSERC