Shohini Ghose
Shohini Ghose is a Canadian quantum physicist, educator, author, and science advocate. She is a Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and holds the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for Ontario. She is also the Chief Technology Officer of the Quantum AlgorithmsInstitute in Waterloo, Canada, where she works on advancing quantum technologies with academic and industry partners.
Her research is in quantum information science, with a focus on quantum computing, quantum communication, teleportation, quantum entanglement, and the links between classical chaos and quantum physics. She is known for contributing to the first experiments that directly showed how chaos can affect quantum entanglement. Her work has been published widely in leading scientific journals and has helped shape understanding of how quantum systems behave and how they can be used in real-world technologies. She has also contributed to research on quantum security, quantum-classical systems, and emerging areas linking quantum science with blockchain andcommunication networks.
Shohini completed her PhD in Physics in 2003 at theUniversity of New Mexicoafter undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics. She began her academic career with postdoctoral research in Canada and joined Wilfrid Laurier University as a faculty member in 2005. Alongside her research, she has taught a wide range of courses, including quantum mechanics, quantum computing, modern physics, and astronomy.
She has played major leadership roles in the scientific community. She served as President of the Canadian Association of Physicists from 2019 to 2020 and was co-editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Physics. She is an affiliate member of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo, and a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She has also served as an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion specialist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and represented Canada at the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Shohini is the founding Director of the Laurier Centre for Women in Science, which works to address gender and diversity issues in science through research, outreach, and policy action. She is a strong advocate for equity,diversity, and inclusionin STEM and has advised governments, universities, and international organisations on these issues.
She is a TED Fellow and TED Senior Fellow and is widely known as a science communicator. Her talks, videos, and media appearances have reached millions of people worldwide. In 2023, she published the bookHer Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe, which won the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award.
