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As a Laureate Fellow and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at UNSW Sydney Professor Michelle Simmons is internationally renowned for creating the field of atomic electronics. She is also the founder and CEO of Silicon Quantum Computing, Australia’s first vertically integrated full-stack quantum computing company, and the only company in the world that can manufacture devices in silicon with atomic precision.
Prof Simmons has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the principles of atomic manipulation, proving the power and utility of this knowledge by creating a sequence of world-first electronic devices in which individual atoms control device behaviour. Her team is now at the forefront of a global race to develop a quantum computer in silicon. She has been recognised by the American Computer Museum as a pioneer in quantum computing, awarded the US Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology and was named the 2017 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Asia-Pacific Laureate in the Physical Sciences.
In 2018 Professor Simmons was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of London and named Australian of the Year. She was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Nature Quantum Information, Chair of the American Physical Society Division of Quantum Information and the 2023 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.
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