Michel Pioro-Ladrière is an expert in spin qubit technology and deputy director of Institut Quantique at Université de Sherbrooke. He received a Ph.D. (2005} in experimental Physics from Université de Sherbrooke,in partnership with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC},winning the NRC Exceptional Accomplishment Award in the process. He was then welcomed as a postdoctoral fellow at the Japan Science and Technology Agency from 2005 to 2009,where he pioneered a micromagnet approach to realize efficient single spin rotations,which is now used worldwide in spin-based quantum information processing research. He was recruited back in 2009 by Université de Sherbrooke,in collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR},to jumpstart the first research program in Canada that utilize components found in today’s microchips to ultimately create a quantum computer. Michel Pioro-Ladrière is the author of 50 peer-reviewed articles and 3 patents. Prof. Pioro-Ladrière is a CIFAR fellow in the Quantum Information Science program,and member of Unité Mixte Internationale – Laboratoire Nanotechnologies & Nanosystèmes (CNRS,France}.