Juan ignacio cirac sasturain biography of albert

Spanish theoretical physicist

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cirac and the second or maternal family name is Sasturain.

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain, known professionally as Ignacio Cirac, is a Spanish physicist.

Juan ignacio cirac sasturain biography of albert

He is one of the pioneers of the field of quantum computing and quantum information theory. He is the recipient of the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research.

Early life and education

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain^{[citation needed]} graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1988.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Cirac moved to the United States in 1991 to work as a postdoctoral scientist with Peter Zoller in the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in University of Colorado at Boulder.

Between 1991 and 1996, he was teaching physics in the Ciudad Real Faculty of Chemistry, University of Castilla-La Mancha.^[2]

In 1996, Cir