Michael Hilke is Professor of Physics, McGill University. He was the former director and is now a member of the Transdisciplinary Institute for Quantum Information (INTRIQ), and a former director and now a member of the Regroupement Qu´eb´ecois sure les Materiaux de Pointe (Quebec Center for Quantum Materials). Professor Hilke has contributed to promoting quantum science in Quebec and internationally, as the first director of INTRIQ, a centre funded through the Fonds de recherche du Qu´ebec (Quebec Research Fund). Professor Hilke is also strongly involved in training the next generation of quantum scientists and has supervised 113 undergraduate students in undergraduate research projects, 26 graduate students and 11 postdoctoral students, with many of them now employed in research, industry or education. He has worked on improving the efficiency of learning outcomes by devising new learning tools in physics education research