Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain[citation needed] graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1988.

[citation needed] Cirac moved to the United States in 1991 to work as a postdoctoral scientist with Peter Zoller in the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in University of Colorado at Boulder.

He is a distinguished visiting professor and research advisor at ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona since its foundation in 2002.

[5] As of 2017 Juan Ignacio Cirac has published more than 440 articles in the most prestigious journals[6] and is one of the most cited authors in his fields of research.

[14] In 2018 he received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society[15] and the Micius Quantum Prize.