Vlatko Vedral

Vlatko Vedral is a Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Oxford and a Professor of Physics at the National University of Singapore. He is a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore. His research spans quantum physics, quantum information, quantum computation, and many-body physics, with foundational work on quantum entang *ul> for education and leadership roles.

Vedral has organized major international conferences such as Foundations of Physics (Leeds 2007), Theoretical Quantum Computation (Singapore 2009), and Quantum Discord (2011). He has led international collaborations, including a group of 15 Oxford academics at the James Martin School on 'Bio-inspired quantum technologies' and served on editorial boards for Annalen der Physik and JPhysA.

With over 300 publications, including 44 in Physical Review Letters, 13 in Nature, and six invited reviews on quantum information, Vedral's work has been cited over 25,000 times, with an h-index of 62. He has delivered around 300 invited lectures globally, including plenary talks at major conferences and public lectures for Café Scientifique (2007) and New Scientist (2016).

Scientific Awards and Honors

• Fellowship at the UK Institute of Physics (2017)
• Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University, Beijing (2015)
• Award 'Srpski Krivak', Belgrade (2015)
• Marko Jaric Award, Serbian Institute of Physics (2010)
• World Scientific Medal and Prize, Singapore IOP (2009)
• Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2007-2009)
• Finalist, John Archibald Wheeler competition, Princeton (2002)
• Abdus Salam Award, Imperial College (1997)
• Overseas Research Student Award, Imperial College (1995-1998)
• University of London Knight Trust Scholarship (1996-1998)

He has supervised 40 PhD students and numerous undergraduates across the UK, US, and Singapore through programs like SURF Caltech exchange and Stanford University collaborations. His leadership roles in academia highlight his influence in advancing quantum information theory and fostering global research initiatives.