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Dr. Aimee K. Gunther
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Quantum physicist turned Director of the Quantum InterNetworking Challenge Program at the National Research Council of Canada

Here resides personal opinions on: quantum technologies, SciPol, cocktails, running, SciFi/fantasy books, and other shinanigans
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Also in the CFL 🇨🇦🏈
🤷‍♀️
CFL fantasy football standings with the author on top
September 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Another year, dragged into an NFL fantasy football league, another year ready to dominate with as little effort as possible
Email screenshot showing the author is projected to go 16-0 in the fantasy football year
September 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Vacation may be over, but summer SciFi/fantasy is lives on! 😎

💙📚
@sistahscifi.bsky.social
Author, in a super cool Sistah SciFi t-shirt, smiling in sunglasses at a sunny brewery
July 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🍷

#WinesOfOntario 🇨🇦
The author, Aimee, wine tasting in a cool cellar-ish winery tasting room. Enjoying every sip of it
June 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Update: a few conferences later, the current status on Team Canada Quantum 🇨🇦

Still missing a bunch, but progress! 🧪⚛️
Framed collage of stickers from quantum companies and organizations across Canada
June 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This is how I keep quantum-ing hard over the long Canadian winters, training for an annual half marathon with 11,000 of my friends!
#RunOttawa2025
Tired selfie of the author after finishing a half marathon
May 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I'm at Dr. Tara Fortier's plenary talk at @spie.org's #PhotonicsWest.

I want to be that cool when I grow up!

Atomic clocks be cool.
Woman in killer suit on a geometric red stage. She's animatedly giving a plenary talk at a conference
January 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Ready for #PhotonicsWest! Everyone needs a little coherent Mach-Zehnder action at a conference!

#Quantum folks, see you soon!
Selfie, focused on undercut. The pattern shaved in is a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
January 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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New Year, same poor choices
🏃‍♀️
Selfie, a shorts-wearing runner in a fluffy snow-covered long sleeve shirt and hat. Smiling, like this wet, cold run was a good idea.
January 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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As 2025 approaches, what can be done to accelerate the responsible adoption of #quantum technologies? First report on my reading list

⚛️🧪👩‍🔬

cca-reports.ca/reports/quan...
Book, entitled "Quantum Potential: expert panel on the Responsible Adoption of Quantum Technologies"
December 31, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Going back to my academic "roots": undercut design of the first entangled photon source, image from the landmark 1995 paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
ψ= 1/√2(|HV> + |VH>)
⚛️🧪💡
Mirror selfie focusing on the phototaker's undercut, which has two overlapping circles. It's supposed to be two output cones of different photon polarization that, on the overlap, are indistinguishable, thus produce an entangled state
October 30, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Snagged a few more #quantum stickers from Western Canada! 🇨🇦

Yo Ontario, I need some more stickers! 🧪⚛️
Picture frame with more quantum company/organization stickers overlapping as art, than the last two posts.
October 4, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Ok, progress from IEEE Quantum Week on the 🇨🇦 quantum sticker front.
🧪⚛️

Next up, qConnect!
Picture frame of a bunch of stickers randomly placed. More stickers than the previous photo.
September 26, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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Starting IEEE Quantum Week strong!
🧪🍹
Margarita, garnished with dried lime and jalapeno in a cool bar
September 16, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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1000 km run this year! 🏃‍♀️Now onto 1000 mi?
A sweaty runner, happy to finish her long run and 1000th kilometer
July 14, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Dear Canadian Quantum Community,

I would love to have many more of your stickers for my latest national quantum initiative: sprucing up my office.

Sincerely,
Aimee

P.S. will send updates
#Quantum 🧪💡
Photo frame of a bunch of stickers, haphazardly on paper, from various quantum institutes across Canada
June 16, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Aimee is still a very serious quantum professional, now conference-ready

💡🧪
Mirror photo of a person's undercut with a Mach-Zehnder interferometer shaved into it.
February 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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Inspirational^2:

Donna Strickland, in giving her a Nobel lecture in Stockholm, cited Maria Goeppert-Mayer's work for introducing nonlinear optics! 💡⚛️👩‍🔬
Photo of Dr. Donna Strickland giving her 2018 Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm, Sweden. Behind her is a projected slide of Nobel Laureate, Dr. Maria Goeppert-Mayer's work on two-photon absorption, as it relates to nonlinear optics.
November 25, 2023 at 5:26 PM
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Am I intense on conference panels? Nah, I'm just here to calm down the quantum computing hype and get real about quantum sensing 😜

Thanks qConnect 2023 for the opportunity to have some fun SciComm-ing it up!
Panel discussion at a conference. Four folks in chairs on a stage where one person (the author) looks like she's about to strangle someone
November 17, 2023 at 4:19 AM
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Scary 🎃
Two carved jack-o'-lanterns: one with a Christmas tree and "ho ho ho", and the other with a eyes and a big grin with toothpicks for teeth
October 31, 2023 at 11:59 PM
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I may have broke my hairdresser with this GHZ state circuit ✂️. 🤷‍♀️
#quantum 🧪
Mirror selfie focusing on the phototaker's undercut, which has faint horizontal lines with a box shaved in. It's supposed to be a quantum circuit which produces a specific three qubit entangled state
October 28, 2023 at 1:04 AM
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Aimee is a very serious quantum professional. 🧪

Obviously a quantum photonic integrated circuit is happening on this undercut ...

#WomenInSTEM

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mirror selfie focusing on Aimee's undercut, which is a representation of a quantum integrated photonic circuit (based on link in post)
September 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM