Barry Cyril Sanders, PhD

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Barry Sanders is Scientific Director of Calgary’s “Quantum City” and Director of the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Calgary. His 1988 Doctor of Philosophy and 2018 Doctor of Science are from Imperial College London, and his research includes theory of quantum sensing, quantum communication, quantum computing and quantum optics. He has held distinguished international visiting professorships and is a Scientist Mentor with the Creative Destruction Lab at both the Universities of Toronto and Calgary. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics, of the American Physical Society, and of Optica—formerly the American Optical Society— and he is the recipient of the City of Calgary International Achievement Award in 2022.

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