Vladan Vuletić

Vladan Vuletić is the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT. Professor Vladan Vuletić was born in Pec, Yugoslavia, and educated in Germany. In 1992, he earned the Physics Diploma from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and in 1997, a Ph.D. in Physics from the same institution. He then went on to work with Professor Steven Chu at Stanford University as a Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation. In 2000, he was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford and in June 2003 accepted an Assistant Professorship in Physics at MIT. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2004, and to Full Professor in July 2011. Vuletić is a Fellow of the APS (2012) and the AAAS (2024). Awards include a 2003 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Marko Jarić Prize of Serbia in 2013, and the Arthur Schawlow Prize of the APS in 2025. Vuletic is also co-founder of the quantum computing company Quera Inc. Professor Vuletic’s research includes precision measurements, large-scale quantum entanglement, quantum optics, quantum simulation and computing.