Michelle Simmons
| Michelle Yvonne Simmons | |
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Professor Michelle Simmons at the University of New South Wales quantum computing laboratories, September 2016
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| Born |
14 July 1967 England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Sydney, Australia |
| Fields | Physics (quantum physics) |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge University of New South Wales |
| Education | Durham University |
| Notable awards |
Pawsey Medal (2005) New South Wales Scientist of the Year 2011 Royal Society of New South Wales Walter Burfitt Prize 2013 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2013) Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal 2015 CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science 2015 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology 2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Laureate 2017 |
| Spouse | Thomas Barlow, Australian scientist and author |
| Children | 1 (f); 2 (m) |
 TEDxSydney talk about Quantum Computation
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Michelle Yvonne Simmons is a Scientia Professor of Quantum Physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales and has twice been an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and is now an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology and is recognised internationally as a pioneer in atomic electronics and Quantum Computing.
In the 1990s Simmons worked as a Research Fellow in Quantum electronics alongside Sir Michael Pepper at the Cavendish Laboratory in the UK where she gained an international reputation for her work in the discovery of the 0.7 feature and the development of 'hole' transistors. In 1999, she was awarded a QEII Fellowship and came to Australia, where she was a founding member of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology.
Since 2000, Simmons has established a large research group dedicated to the fabrication of Atomic scale devices in silicon and germanium using the atomic precision of scanning tunnelling microscopy. Her research group is the only group worldwide that can create atomically precise devices in silicon—they were also the first team in the world to develop a working "perfect" single-atom transistor and the narrowest conducting doped wires in silicon.
Simmons has published over 350 peer-reviewed journal papers amassing over 6,000 citations, written five book chapters and published a book on Nanotechnology. She has also filed four patents and delivered over 100 invited and plenary presentations at international conferences.
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