Research Interests

I am an atomic physicist. My main research interest is fundamental light-matter interactions, and especially the control of quantum systems using ultrafast laser fields. I develop new sources of ultrafast laser light in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet,  and x-ray regions of the light spectrum.

Career History

• 2009-present: Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professorship in Natural Science
  
• 2005-present: Director, Ultrafast Science Center; Professor, Stanford University (Department of Applied Physics, and Department of Physics)
• 2004-2005: Visiting Scholar, Stanford Department of Applied Physics and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.
• Otto Laporte Collegiate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
• Director of FOCUS, the NSFCenter for the Advancement of Frontiers in Optical Coherent Ultrafast Science
• Editor of VJUltrafast, the APS Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.
• 9/90-8/98 Professor of Physics, University of Michigan.
• 11/82-8/90 Principal Investigator Member of Technical Staff, Physics Research Division, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
• 1/89-8/90 Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
• 8/80-11/82 Post-doctoral research at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ 07733, and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, CA 94720.
• Ph.D. (1980) and M.A. (1978) in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
• A.B. (1975) magna cum laude in Physics, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Honors

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2004.
• Michigan Sokal Award for Research, 2001.
  
• Distinguished Traveling Lecturer, APS Division of Laser Science, 1996-97.
  
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1996-97.
  
• Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, 1996.
  
• Visiting Miller Professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1996.
  
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1990.
  
• Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1995.
  
• NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1975-78
  
• Member of BESAC, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee
• Member of CAMOS, the NRC Committee on AMO Science
• Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters for the Laser Science Division
• Member of the Physics Today Advisory Committee
• Chairman, APS Nominating Committee.