Vlatko Vedral
Serbian-born British physicist (1971-) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vlatko Vedral FInstP is a Serbian-born (and naturalised British citizen) physicist and Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.[1] Until the summer of 2022 he also held a joint appointment at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore. He is known for his research on the theory of quantum entanglement and quantum information theory. He has published numerous research papers,[1] which are regularly cited, in quantum mechanics and quantum information, and was awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2007. He has held a lectureship and readership at Imperial College, a professorship at Leeds and visiting professorships in Vienna, Singapore (NUS) and at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.[citation needed] He is the author of several books, including Decoding Reality.[4]
Vlatko Vedral | |
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Born | (1971-08-19) August 19, 1971 (age 52) |
Nationality | British Serbian |
Education | Mathematical Grammar School |
Alma mater | Imperial College London (BSc, PhD) |
Known for | Quantum entanglement Quantum discord |
Awards | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2007) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Quantum physics[1] |
Institutions | University of Oxford National University of Singapore University of Leeds Imperial College London |
Thesis | Quantum information theory of entanglement (1998) |
Doctoral students | Elham Kashefi[2][3] Ivette Fuentes Libby Heaney |
Website | www |