Professor Broadbent is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, where she holds the University Research Chair in Quantum Information and Cryptography. She holds a BMath in Combinatorics and Optimization from the University of Waterloo, an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from l’Université de Montréal and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Waterloo.

Among many awards and accolades, she was awarded the University of Ottawa Young Researcher of the Year Award (2019), the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2016), the André Aisenstadt Prize in Mathematics (2016), the John Charles Polanyi Prize (2010), and the NSERC Doctoral Prize (2009).