{"id":234098,"date":"2026-03-26T02:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/building-a-national-quantum-strategy"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:28:54","slug":"building-a-national-quantum-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/building-a-national-quantum-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Building a National Quantum Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-a-national-quantum-strategy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Damascelli has always been fascinated by light. He uses it to probe materials on an atomic level, and his observations have contributed to the condensed-matter community\u2019s understanding of high-temperature superconductors and quantum materials. His research group at the University of British Columbia (UBC) uses time-, spin-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, an intricate technique that maps the energy and velocity of electrons as they propagate through materials.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Damascelli spearheaded efforts that brought one of the first Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) grants to UBC\u2019s Quantum Matter Institute. As the institute\u2019s scientific director, he found himself at the helm of a full-blown research center\u2014hiring faculty, expanding staff, and upgrading facilities. A few months later, he received a special request from Canada\u2019s National Research Council: join leaders from across Canada\u2019s quantum ecosystem to advise on a strategy for growing the country\u2019s quantum community as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><i><i>Physics<\/i> Magazine<\/i> chatted with Damascelli as he looked back on the beginning of Canada\u2019s first National Quantum Strategy (NQS) and looked forward to developing a self-sustaining quantum research and training powerhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Damascelli has always been fascinated by light. He uses it to probe materials on an atomic level, and his observations have contributed to the condensed-matter community\u2019s understanding of high-temperature superconductors and quantum materials. His research group at the University of British Columbia (UBC) uses time-, spin-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, an intricate technique that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}