Barry Sanders

Barry Sanders is Scientific Director of Calgary’s “Quantum City” and a professor in and director of the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Calgary. Dr Sanders’s 1988 Doctor of Philosophy and 2018 Doctor of Science are awarded by Imperial College London, and his research activities theoretical quantum sensing, quantum communication, quantum computing and quantum optics. He has held numerous distinguished international visiting professorships and is a Scientist Mentor with the Creative Destruction Lab at both the Universities of Toronto and Calgary and an Expert with the Canadian Council of Academies. Dr Sanders 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 received the City of Calgary International Achievement Award in 2022.