Andrew N. Cleland (born 17 September 1961) is an American physicist, and is currently the John A. MacLean Sr. Professor for Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise at the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the

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Education

Cleland received his Bachelor of Science in engineering physics at the

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in 1983, and his PhD in physics in 1991, also at the

. He pursued postdoctoral research at the Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires (CEN) in Saclay, France, then worked as a postdoc and ultimately as a senior research fellow at the

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, before joining the faculty of the department of physics at the

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. In 2014, he joined the new Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

Career

Cleland has made significant contributions to the fields of superconductivity, in particular the development of

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-based superconducting quantum circuits, as well as in the fields of nanomechanics, and microfluidics. He has published over 130 refereed journal articles, as well as a textbook on nanomechanics. He has also given over 200 invited presentations. His work on demonstrating the operation of a mechanical structure in its quantum ground state, as well as demonstrating quantum entanglement between the mechanical system and a superconducting quantum bit, was awarded the Breakthrough of the Year by Science magazine in 2010. Cleland currently holds two U.S. patents, one for the invention of a new method for detecting and measuring the size of nanoparticles in solution; this patent is the basis of a new commercial venture.

Honors and awards

* Fellow of the American Physical Society (2009) * Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011) * “Breakthrough of the year 2010”, Science magazine * “Top Ten Discoveries of 2010”, Physics World (IOP) * “Top Ten Discoveries of 2011”, Physics World (IOP)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cleland, Andrew N Living people 1961 births 21st-century American physicists UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty University of Chicago faculty Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Physical Society