Ferenc Krausz
Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962[2]) is a Hungarian–Austrian physicist working in attosecond science. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. His research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons' motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics.[3] In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Education | |
Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics (2022) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) Nobel Prize in Physics (2023) |
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Fields | Attosecond physics |
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Thesis | Erzeugung ultrakurzer Lichtimpulse in Neodymium-Glaslasern (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Arnold Schmidt[1] |
Website | mpg |
Academic career
From 1981 until 1985 Krausz studied theoretical physics at Eötvös Loránd University and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest in Hungary. He began his research work at BME Institute of Physics, and spent three years researching in the university's laser laboratory. From 1987 to 1991 he graduated with a PhD at the Technical University of Vienna, in Austria, and from 1991 to 1993 he did his habilitation also there. 1996–1998 he became associate professor, from 1999 until 2004 professor of electrical engineering at the same institute. In 2003 he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and in 2004 became chair of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 2006 he co-founded the Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP) and became one of its directors.[4]
Honors and awards
- 2006 – Royal Photographic Society Progress medal and Honorary Fellowship[5]
- 2013 – Otto Hahn Prize[6]
- 2015 – selected Clarivate Citation laureate in Physics with Paul Corkum "for contributions to the development of attosecond physics."[7]
- 2016 – Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[8]
- 2019 – Vladilen Letokhov Medal.[9]
- 2022 – Wolf Prize in Physics with Anne L'Huillier and Corkum for "for pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics".[10]
- 2022 – BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences with L'Huillier and Corkum.[11]
- 2023 – Nobel Prize in Physics with L'Huillier and Pierre Agostini for "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter."[12]
References
- "Das sagt Ferenc Krausz zum Nobelpreis". vienna.at. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- "Ferenc Krausz Facts". Retrieved 3 October 2023.
- Krausz, Ferenc; Ivanov, Misha (2 February 2009). "Attosecond physics". Reviews of Modern Physics. American Physical Society (APS). 81 (1): 163–234. Bibcode:2009RvMP...81..163K. doi:10.1103/revmodphys.81.163. ISSN 0034-6861. Archived from the original on 14 March 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- "Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz". Archived from the original on 8 March 2022.
- "Progress Medal".
- "Otto-Hahn-Preis | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V."
- Reuters, Thomson. "Thomson Reuters Forecasts Nobel Prize Winners". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
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has generic name (help) - "Ferenc 2023 -Nobel Prize in Physics Krausz". German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- "The first 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal goes to Ferenc Krausz". European Physical Society. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022.
- "Wolf Prize in Physics 2022". 8 February 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2022
- "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 3 October 2023.