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Michelle Yvonne Simmons is a Physics Professor at the University of New South Wales and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. She obtained a double degree in physics and chemistry and was awarded a PhD in Physics from Durham University, UK in 1992. She is the director of the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology of the Australian Research Council and a pioneer in Quantum Computing.

Achievements
In the 1990s she was a Research Fellow working with Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, in quantum electronics, 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 Centre of Excellence. Since 2000 she has established a large research group dedicated to the fabrication of atomic-scale devices in silicon using the atomic precision of a scanning tunneling microscopy. Her group has developed the world's thinnest conducting doped wires in silicon and the ability to manipulate and electronically measure devices with atomically precise dopant placement. She has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals (with over 4000 citations), published a book on Nanotechnology, five book chapters on quantum electronics, has filed four patents and has presented over 60 invited and plenary presentations at international conferences. She has been the Chair of the Australian Research Councils Expert Advisory Committee for Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience. In 2005 she was awarded the Pawsey Medal by the Australian Academy of Science and in 2006 became the one of the youngest elected Fellows of this Academy. She is currently Chair of the Australian Academy’s National Committee for Physics, an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal for Nanotechnology and has recently been recognised by the Bulletin and Cosmos Magazine as one of Australia’s top ten scientific minds under the age of 45. In 2008 she was awarded a second Federation Fellowship by the Australian Government.