Arnold Schmidt#

• Professor Emeritus at the Photonics Institute of the TU-Wien
• since 2001 Professor at the Institut für Photonik der TU-Wien, Austria
• 2000 - 2001 Chairman of the Photonics Institute of the TU Wien, Austria
• 1989 - 1993 Chairman of the Institut für allgemeine Elektrotechnik und Elektronik of the TU Wien, Austria
• 1986 Full Professor at the TU Wien, Austria
• 1979 Associate Professor and head of the Abteilung für Quantenelektronik und Lasertechnik at the TU Wien, Austria
• 1978 “Habilitation” in the field of Quantum Electronics
• 1975 Assistant Professor at the Institut für physikalische Elektronik TH Wien, Austria
• 1971 - 1975 Research Associate at the Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 1966 - 1971 Research Fellow at the Department of Physics, University of York, UK
• 1962 - 1965 Research Assistant (with Prof. Dr. K.M. Koch); engaged in founding the Ludwig Boltzmann Society and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute für Festköperphysik, Vienna, Austria

• Nonlinear optics
• Femto- and atto-second technology
• Ultra short pulses
• Quantum electronics
• High power lasers
• Solid state lasers

• 1998 Member of the Academia Europea
• 1999 Member of the Austrian Academy of Science
• 1996 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
• 1998 Fellow of the American Physical Society

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