Professor Simmons is ARC Laureate Fellow and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at UNSW. She leads a team of some 180 researchers developing a radical, uniquely powerful, ultra-secure computing technology. As a consequence of both her leadership of the Centre and her own ground-breaking research program in the development of atomic-scale electronics, Australian researchers are now at the international forefront of classical and quantum computing technologies in silicon. Her research has important implications for the semiconductor industry and is anticipated to be transformational in the field of quantum computation.