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Dr. Barry Sanders is Scientific Director of Calgary’s “Quantum City”, hosted by the University of Calgary and tasked with building a strong quantum ecosystem in Alberta. Barry was awarded two Diplomas of Imperial College in 1985 and 1987 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1988 from the University of London plus a Doctor of Science from Imperial College London in 2018 in recognition of career achievement in quantum optics and quantum information. His postdoctoral positions were in Australia and New Zealand, and he was a professor at Macquarie University Sydney for 12 years before moving back to his Alma Mater University of Calgary in 2003. Barry’s theoretical research includes quantum sensing and metrology, quantum and quantum-resilient communication, quantum computing and quantum optics.

He has held numerous distinguished international visiting professorships and affiliations in Canada, the USA, China, India, Israel, Austria and elsewhere, and is a Scientist with the Creative Destruction Lab sites at the Universities of Toronto and Calgary. Sanders served as an Expert with the Canadian Council of Academies and is a member of the Scientific Board for the Banff International Research Station. He is a former member of the Open Quantum Institute Incubation Advisory Board of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator and is co-lead of the International Research Network: Canada-France Quantum Alliance involving France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Barry serves on expert panels in Canada, the USA and Europe. 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, and he received the City of Calgary International Achievement Award in 2022.