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Barry Sanders obtained a BSc in physics from the University of Calgary, and a Diploma in Mathematical Physics and a PhD in Physics from Imperial College of the University of London. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University and University of Queensland under the supervision of Gerard Milburn, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Waikato under the supervision of Crispin Gardiner. Dr Sanders then joined the Physics Department at Macquarie University, Sydney, for 12 years including 6.5 years as Head of Department and 4 of those years also as Chair of the Division Research Committee.
In July 2003, Barry Sanders joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary as iCORE Professor of Quantum Information Science and was also appointed Adjunct Professor of Quantum Information Science at Macquarie University, where is he is a partner in the Australian Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. Dr Sanders is Past President of the Australian Optical Society, an associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research , and an affiliate of the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Alberta and the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control , a member of the editorial board for the New Journal of Physics. Sanders is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (United Kingdom), of the Optical Society of America and of the Australian Institute of Physics . He is also a member of the advisory board for the recently established American Physical Society Topical Group of Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation .
Quantum information science is his primary research effort, and the main programs of research are producing enabling technology, and devising implementations, for quantum information tasks and protocols, and investigating foundational issues in quantum information and quantum mechanics such as measurement and entanglement. The research programs are highly collaborative because of the broad multidisciplinary scope of the field, which includes theoretical and experimental physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and engineering.
Calgary is fortunate in having wide-ranging expertise in quantum information, with strengths in computer science, experimental physics, and theoretical physics. Quantum information is one of the University of Calgary's sixteen areas of excellence, with the Institute for Quantum Information Science an important outcome of this support.
In addition to quantum information science, Sanders collaborates with members of Macquarie University's Electronics Department on an exciting project to develop microwave antennas using photonic crystal technology.