Professor Michelle Simmons Photo: Selina Ou
Professor of quantum physics Michelle Simmons believes new worlds will open up to humanity if we better understand how nature works at an atomic scale.
In June her team at Silicon Quantum Computing at the University of New South Wales announced they had built a quantum processor in silicon that simulates the behaviour of a small organic molecule - a major milestone towards the world's first quantum computer.
In 2018 Simmons was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society of London and named Australian of the Year.
Professor Simmons is speaking at the 10th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in Rotorua, 7- 10 February
A Silicon Quantum Computer engineer operates one of their Scanning Tunnelling Microscopes to fabricate a quantum processor with atomic precision. Photo: supplied
