Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain#
| Membership Number: | 7135 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mpg.de/371987/quantum-optics-cirac |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1989 - 1991 Fellow "Formación del Personal Investigador" (Prog. General)
- 1991 - 1996 "Profesor Titular de Universidad", Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- 1993 - 1994 Research Associate, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado
- 1996 - 2001 Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck
- Since 2001 Director and Scientific Member Max Planck Institut of Quantum Optics
- Since 2002) Honorary Professor, Technical University of Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum physics
- Condensed matter physics
- Many body physics
- Quantum optics
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Member of the National Academy of Sciences (US)
- 2020 Member Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 John Steward Bell Prize (with Peter Zoller)
- 2018 Micius Prize in Quantum Computing (with Peter Zoller)
- 2018 Max Planck Medal
- 2017 Member Leopoldina Academy (Germany)
- 2015 Medalla de Honor al Fomento de la Invención
- 2013 Medal of the Niels Bohr Institute
- 2013 Wolf Prize in Physics
- 2010 Franklin Medal in Physics (with David J. Wineland and Peter Zoller)
- 2009 Zeiss Prize (with R. Blatt)
- 2009 Medal of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- 2008 BBVA Frontiers of Knowldege Award (with Peter Zoller)
- 2007 Premio Nacional de Investigación Blas Cabrera
- 2006 Prince of Asturias Prize in Basic Science
- 2005 Qantum Electronics Prize (EU)
- 2002 Member of the Spanish Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physical Society
- 2001 Felix Kuschenitz Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Premio Investigadores Noveles of the Spanish Royal Physical Society
