Thomas Jennewein completed his PhD in 2002 at the University of Vienna. His thesis research on quantum communication and teleportation experiments with entangled photon pairs was awarded the Loschmidt-Prize by the Austrian Physical-Chemical Society. From 2004--2009, Prof. Jennewein was a Senior Scientist at the Vienna branch of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), working on experimental quantum photonics. Prof. Jennewein has played a key role in the advancement of long-distance transmission of entangled photons over free space, and his work on quantum cryptography using entangled photons was selected by the American Physical Society as one of the ``Top Ten Highlights of 2000.'' Thomas is now a faculty member of the Institute for Quantum Computing and holds a position of an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He is an affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo and a scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in the Quantum Information Processing program, and an associated member of INO. His present research focuses on the applications of quantum photonics and quantum optics, in particular for long-distance quantum communications in particular in free-space and using satellites, as well as fundamental aspects of the quantum world.In particular, Dr Jennewein has been designated the principle investigator for the proposed Canadian Quantum Satellite “QEYSSAT”. In this role he is actively working with industry partners on the technical development, as well as working with a team of core users from several institutions across Canada and internationally on defining the mission objectives. He and his team recently completed the Phase-0 study with the Canadian Space Agency.