Vlatko Vedral

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, 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.

After completing secondary education at Mathematical Grammar School (Matematička gimnazija), he received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Imperial College London, where he graduated with a PhD in 1998. 

After his PhD, Vedral was appointed Elsag-Bailey postdoctoral research fellow in Oxford. He then held a research fellowship at Merton College, Oxford returning to Imperial College as the Governor’s lecturer to start a quantum information science research group, a position he held from 2000-2004. Before returning to Oxford, he was centenary professor of quantum information science at the University of Leeds from 2004 to 2009. As of 2009, he has held joint appointments as a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore, the latter ending in the summer of 2022. He was appointed Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford in 2009.

Publications

Vedral's publications can all be found on Google Scholar. His books include:

• 2005: Modern Foundations of Quantum Optics
• 2006: Introduction to Quantum Information Science
• 2010: Introductory Quantum Physics and Relativity
• 2010: Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information
• 2018: Solid State Quantum Information
• 2018: From Micro to Macro: Adventures of a Wandering Physicist

Awards and honours

• Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2007.
• The World Scientific Physics Research Medal, 2009
• Recipient of Marko V. Jaric Award, 2011
• Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) in 2017^{[citation needed]}
• Elected a member of The Academia Europaea, which known also as The Academy of Europe in 2020