Philip Howard
Bucksbaum
Photon Sciences Division,
M.S. 59, SLAC,
Departments of Physics and Applied Physics,
email: phb@slac.stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~phbuck
Position: Professor of Photon Sciences, Physics, and Applied Physics; Director of the Stanford PULSE Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science; Chair of the Stanford Photon Physics Faculty at SLAC; Editor of VJUltrafast, the APS Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.
Previous career and education:
- 9/05-5/06
Peter Franken Distinguished University Professor of Physics,
- 8/98-5/06
Otto Laporte Collegiate Professor of Physics,
- 9/90-8/98 Professor of
Physics, University of
- 11/82-8/90 Principal
Investigator Member of Technical Staff, Physics Research Division,
AT&T
- 1/89-8/90 Adjunct Associate
Professor of Applied Physics,
- 8/80-11/82 Post-doctoral
research at AT&T Bell Laboratories,
- Ph.D. (1980) and M.A. (1978)
in Physics from the
- A.B. (1975) magna cum
laude in Physics,
Honors:
Member,
Distinguished
Traveling Lecturer, APS Division of Laser Science, 1996-97.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellow, 1996-97.
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
Current service (partial list):
Chair of AMO2010, the NRC decadal survey on AMO physics; member of the National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy; member of the Physics Today Advisory Committee.
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.