Martin Bodo Plenio (born 20 May 1968) is a German physicist, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Ulm University.

He obtained his Diploma 1992 and Doctorate 1994 in physics from the University of Göttingen.

In 1995 – 1997, he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow at Imperial College London in the group of Prof. Sir.

In 2009 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship[1] of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and moved to Ulm University where he is Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics[2][3] and leads the Controlled Quantum Dynamics group.

In 2014 he was awarded €27Million for a research building to establish the Center for Quantum Biosciences of which he is the founding director.