Prof. Ebrahim Karimi is currently holding the Canada Research Chair in the field of Structured Light, and is the group leader of Structured Quantum Optics (SQO) laboratory at the University of Ottawa. He is also an adjunct professor at Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS)-Iran, and a visiting professor at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light at Erlangen-Germany. His research focuses on structured quantum waves and their applications in quantum communication, quantum computation, and materials science. Prof. Karimi has published over 110 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Science and Nature Publishing Group, and is an inventor or co-inventor on three patents. His contributions most notably include studies pertaining to the relation between the quantum spatial properties of photons, electrons and their internal properties. Prof. Karimi received numerous awards, such as Ontario’s Early Research Award in 2018, Young Researcher of the year in Faculty of Science in 2018 at the University of Ottawa, a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA), a Fellow the Max Planck Institute, and a Fellow of the NRC-uOttawa Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics. Prof. Karimi is currently an Associate Editor of Optics Express (The Optical Society-OSA) and New Journal of Physics (IOPscience), and a Guest Editor of Journal of Optics (IOPscience).