Ferenc Krausz#
| Membership Number: | 3296 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.attoworld.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Director, Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics
- 2007 - 2009 Managing Director, MPQ, Garching, Germany
- 2006 - 2010 Deputy Director, Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics
- 2006 - present Director, International Max-Planck-Research-School of Advanced Photon Science
- 2004 - present Full Professor, Chair of Experimental Physics, LMU, Munich, Germany
- 2003 - present Director, MPQ, Garching, Germany
- 1999 - 2004 Full Professor, Vienna University of Technology, Dept. EE
- 1996 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Vienna University of Technology, Dept. EE, Vienna, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Laser physics
- X-ray physics
- Nonlinear optics
- Time-resolved spectroscopy
- Synthesis of intense
- Controlled waveforms of laser light
- Time-resolved observation and control of atomic-scale electron motion on the attosecond-femtosecond time scale
- Exploration and exploitation of intense-laser-matter interactions
- Development of laser-driven brilliant X-ray & particle sources
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier) "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
- 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
- 2022 Wolf Prize in Physics
- 2019 Vladilen Letokhov Medal
- 2016 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2011 Call as a member to the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- 2011 Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Order of Merit of the Federal Government), Germany
- 2009 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, European Union
- 2007 Call as a member to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
- 2007 Call as a member to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Austria
- 2006 Quantum Electronics Award, IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society, USA
- 2006 James Frank Memorial Lecture, Israel Academy of Sciences, Israel
- 2006 Max von Laue Memorial Lecture, Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Germany
- 2006 Manne Siegbahn Memorial Lecture, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden
- 2006 Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society, United Kingdom
- 2006 Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural and Technical Sciences, Austria
- 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
- 2005 Honorary Professorship at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate Degree at the Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
- 2003 Julius Springer Award in Applied Physics, Springer, Germany, USA
- 2003 Call as a member to the Austrian Academy of Science, Austria
- 2002 Wittgenstein Award, Federal Ministry of Science and Education, Austria
- 1998 Carl Zeiss Award, Ernst Abbe Foundation, Germany
- 1996 START Award, Federal Ministry of Science & Education, Austria
- 1994 Fritz Kohlrausch Award, Austrian Physical Society, Austria
