Founder
Andreas STINGL
President & CEO
Prof. Ferenc KRAUSZ
Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum
Physics | Garching | Germany
Prof. Christian SPIELMANN
Friedrich Schiller University | Jena | Germany
Executive Management
Dr. Christian WARMUTH
Vice President & COO
Prof. Ferenc KRAUSZ
Director | Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Physics | Garching | Germany
*1962 in Mór | Hungary
married | 2 children
Research focus
Main fields: ultrashort-pulse laser physics | intense light-matter interactions
Other fields: nonlinear optics | atomic-, plasma- and X-ray physics
Current interests: synthesis of intense few-cycle waveforms of laser light | control and measurement of microscopic processes on the attosecond time scale | generation of collimated high-energy photon (X-ray) and particle (electron, proton) beams with lasers.
Education
| 1993 | Habilitation in Laser Physics Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
| 1991-1993 | Postdoctoral fellow Vienna University of Technology |
| 1991 | Ph.D. in laser physics Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
| 1987-1991 | Ph.D. study in laser physics Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
| 1985-1987 | Ph.D. study in laser physics Budapest University of Technology, Institute of Experimental Physics |
| 1985 | M.Sc. with distinction |
| 1981-1985 | Study of theoretical physics and electrical engineering Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Budapest University of Technology |
Academic Career
| since 2004 | Professor of physics, chair of experimental physics Ludwig Maximilian's University of Munich, Germany |
| since 2003 | Director Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany |
| 1999-2004 | Professor of electrical engineering Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
| 1996-1998 | Assistant professor Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
Honors
External member | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Budapest | 2007
Member | European Academy of Sciences and Arts | Salzburg | 2007
James Franck Memorial Lecture | Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities | Jerusalem | 2006
Max-von-Laue Memorial Lecture | Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin | 2006
Manne Siegbahn Memorial Lecture | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | Sweden | 2006
The Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal | United Kingdom | 2006
Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural and Technical Sciences | Austria | 2006
Quantum Electronics Award | IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society | USA | 2006
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | Germany | 2006
Dr.h.c. Budapest University of Technology | Hungary | 2005
Honorary Professor | Vienna University of Technology | Austria | 2005
Julius Springer Prize | Springer Verlag | New York | USA | 2003
Member | Austrian Academy of Sciences | Austria | 2003 | foreign associate since 2005
Wittgenstein Prize | Federal Government | Austria | 2002
Carl Zeiss Prize | Ernst Abbe Foundation | Germany | 1998
START Prize | Federal Government | Austria | 1996
Fritz Kohlrausch Prize | Austrian Physical Society | Austria | 1994