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Faculty

Andrew Cleland

  • John A. MacLean Sr. Professor of Molecular Engineering Innovation and Enterprise in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; Director, Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility
  • Research and Scholarly Interests: Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Sensing
  • Websites: Cleland Lab
  • Contact: anc@uchicago.edu
    773.834.9182
  • Assistant: Kerri Pride-Fair
  • Office Location:
    Eckhardt Research Center
    Room 235
    5640 South Ellis Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60637

Andrew Cleland is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was selected as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-18, and was an APS Kavli Lecturer in 2017. He received his bachelor’s degree in engineering physics in 1983, and his PhD in physics in 1991, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

He then pursued research in quantum systems at the Centre d’Etudes-Orme des Merisiers in Saclay, France, and later at the California Institute of Technology, before joining the faculty of the physics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997. Prof. Cleland joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2014.