Previously she held positions as a CIFAR Global Scholar as well as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, both at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. Before that, she received her PhD in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Gilles Brassard and Alain Tapp. Dr. Broadbent also holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal and a BMath with Honors from the University of Waterloo. She has been recognized with numerous awards and honors during her academic career, including the 2009 NSERC Doctoral Prize, the 2010 John Charles Polanyi Prize, and the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing.