[1][2] As of July 2024, she holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications and Cryptography.
[3] Broadbent specialised in music at De La Salle High School in Ottawa, graduating in 1997.
[1][6][7] After postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, she moved to Ottawa in 2014.
[9] Broadbent is the winner of the 2010 John Charles Polanyi Prize in Physics of the Council of Ontario Universities.
[1][10] She was awarded the Aisenstadt Prize by International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques in 2016 for her leadership and work in quantum information and cryptography.