Faculty

VLADAN VULETIĆ
Professor and Division Head, Atomic, Biological, Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics

VLADAN VULETIC, Lester Wolfe Associate Professor of Physics

Name: Vladan Vuletić

Title(s): Professor of Physics
Division Head, Atomic, Biological, Condensed Matter and
Plasma Physics

Email: vuletic@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 324-1174

Assistant: Joanna M. Keseberg (617) 253-6830

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 26-231
Cambridge, MA 02139

Labs: 26-228, 26-230

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Area of Physics:

Atomic Physics

Education:

  • B. 1992, LUDWIG-MAXIMILIAN UNIVERSITY
  • Ph.D. 1997, LUDWIG-MAXIMILIAN UNIVERSITY

Research Interests

Laser cooling and trapping, ultracold atomic collisions.

Biographical Sketch

A German citizen, Professor Vladan Vuletić was born in Pec, Yugoslavia, and educated in Germany. In 1992, he earned the Physics Diploma with highest honors from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and in 1997, a Ph.D. in Physics (summa cum laude) from the same institution.

While a postdoctoral researcher with the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, Professor Vuletić accepted a Lynen Fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. 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. He was promoted to Full Professor in July 2011.

Recent awards include a 2003–04 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Lester Wolfe Career Development Chair at MIT.

Selected Publications

A list of Professor Vuletić's publications is available on the Vuletić Research Group web site.

Last updated: 04.01.2013