Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2020
Chief Quantum Officer, Photonic Inc.
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Stef provides the technology vision for Photonic, a Vancouver-based company building the world’s first large-scale universal quantum processor in silicon. She is a world-leading expert in quantum technologies, silicon spin-photon interfaces, condensed matter spin dynamics, and quantum optics. Stef has twice achieved Physics World Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year. She is also a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow in Quantum Information Science, and Assistant Professor of Physics at SFU. Her work has been featured by the BBC, CBC, Scientific American, Wired Magazine, the New Scientist, and New York Times.
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