Stacey Jeffery started her academic career as an undergraduate philosophy student at McMaster University, before reading the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, after which she transfered to a Computer Science program at the University of Waterloo. She got her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Michele Mosca in 2014, before spending two and a half years as a postdoc at Caltech at the Insitute for Quantum Information and Matter. She now lives in Amsterdam with her husband and one-year-old daughter, who enjoys bedtime stories read from Theory of Computing.