Anne L'Huillier#
| Membership Number: | 6771 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.atomic.physics.lu.se/research/attosecond-physics-from-lasers-to-applications/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1335-4022 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 Professor in Atomic Physics, Lund University
- 1995 - 1996 Associate professor at Lund University
- 1986 - 1995 Permanent research position at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Saclay, France
- 1993 Visiting scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- 1988 Postdoctoral position at the University of Southern Californian, Los Angeles, USA.
- 1986 Postdoctoral position at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1981 - 1986 PhD student at Commissarait à l’Energie Atomique, Saclay, France.
Fields of Scholarship
- Electron dynamics of atomic systems
- Attosecond physics
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Attosecond light sources designed for different goals
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Davisson-Germer Prize
- 2024 Doctor honoris causa from University of Bordeaux and University of Porto
- 2024 Royal Order of the Polar Star, Commander Grand Cross
- 2023 Doctor honoris causa from Paris-Saclay University
- 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly with Ferenc Krausz and Pierre Agostini) for "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
- 2023 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis for "high harmonic generation and attosecond physics"
- 2022 Wolf Prize (jointly with jointly with Ferenc Krausz and Paul Corkum) for "pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics"
- 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences (jointly with Ferenc Krausz and Paul Corkum
- 2022 French Legion of Honour
- 2021 Optical Society of America Max Born Award for "pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics, realizing and understanding high harmonic generation and applying it to time-resolved imaging of electron motion in atoms and molecules"
- 2019 Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics, announced by the European Physical Society
- 2018 Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Carl-Zeiss Research Award
- 2013 Blaise Pascal Medal
- 2013 Honorary Degree at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
- 2011 UNESCO L'Oréal Award
- 2004 Member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Julius Springer Prize
