Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain , quoted as Ignacio Cirac , (born October 11, 1965 in Manresa , Spain ) is a Spanish physicist and university professor . He is director of the theory department at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching .

Life

Cirac studied theoretical physics at the Complutense University of Madrid and received his doctorate in 1991, before teaching as Professor Titular at the University of Castile-La Mancha (1991–1996). From 1996 to 2001 he was professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck , where he worked with Peter Zoller in the field of quantum informatics . In December 2001, Cirac was appointed director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and in 2002 he was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich . He has also been a member of the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) since 2007 and spokesman for the International Max Planck Research School Quantum Science and Technology since 2016 .

His work focuses on the areas of quantum information theory , the theory of degenerate quantum gases and strongly correlated systems as well as theoretical quantum optics . His most cited work (as of 2018) is the proposal made together with Peter Zoller for the ion trap - quantum computer .

Awards

Cirac has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Castile-La Mancha , the University of Zaragoza , the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , the University of Valencia and the European University of Madrid . In 2006 he received the Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research . Among other things, he was counted among the ten people who could change the world in Forbes magazine .

In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2009 he received the Carl Zeiss Research Award and, with Peter Zoller, the Spanish BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria , one of the most highly endowed research awards. In 2010 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics together with Peter Zoller and David Wineland . In 2013 he received the Medal of Honor from the Niels Bohr Institute . Also in 2013 he was awarded the Wolf Prize for Physics.

In 2015, Cirac received the “ Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics ”.

In 2017 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . For 2018 he was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 2019 he was awarded the Micius Quantum Foundation Prize ( Micius Prize ) and in 2019 the John Stewart Bell Prize . In 2020 Cirac was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Web links

• Ignacio Cirac on the MPQ website
• Publications by JI Cirac on the ArXiv preprint server

Individual evidence

1. ^ J. Cirac and P. Zoller: Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 74 , 1995, pp. 4091-4094 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.74.4091 (English).
2. ↑ MPG: Benjamin Franklin Medal for Prof. Ignacio Cirac , press release - archive 2009.
3. ↑ Ignacio Cirac receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honor. at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved January 10, 2012.
4. ↑ Great award for Peter Zoller on ORF on January 3, 2013, accessed on January 3, 2013.
5. ↑ Prof. Ignacio Cirac receives the "Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics" , idw, September 23, 2015.
6. ↑ Member entry by Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 16, 2017.
7. ^ O. Meyer-Streng (MPQ): Prof. Ignacio Cirac is awarded the Max Planck Medal of the DPG. November 23, 2017, accessed January 22, 2018 . 
8. ↑ orf.at: China honors Austrian quantum researchers . Article dated April 26, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019.