Physicist
Director, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany)
External Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Dr. Ferenc Krausz is a physicist based in Germany and the Director of the
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching.
He is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
His research group was the first to generate and measure
attosecond-duration light pulses
and to use them to map the motion of electrons within atoms,
thereby laying the foundations of the scientific field known as
attophysics.

Education and Early Career

Dr. Krausz began his scientific career by completing parallel studies in
theoretical physics at
Eötvös Loránd University
and electrical engineering at the
Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Among his mentors were two internationally renowned Hungarian physicists of the
twentieth century, Károly Simonyi Sr. and György Marx.
Inspired by Simonyi’s lectures, he chose the study of light and electron dynamics
as his lifelong scientific vocation.

In 1991, he earned his PhD with distinction in laser physics from the
Vienna University of Technology,
where he later completed his habilitation and worked as a professor until 2004.

Academic Appointments

Since 2004, Dr. Krausz has been a professor at
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
In parallel, he serves as Director of the
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

Scientific Output and Impact

Dr. Krausz is the author of nearly 400 scientific publications.
His work has been cited more than 50,000 times,
and his h-index exceeds 100,
indicating that over 100 of his publications have each received at least 100 citations.

Through his publications and collaborations, he has appeared
ten times in Nature,
one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.

He is a founding member of the Dénes Gábor Society in Berlin
and served as a strategic advisor to the President of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 2010 and 2014.
He is also a recipient of the Otto Hahn Prize
awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG).

Awards and Honors

In 2022, Dr. Krausz received the Wolf Prize in Physics
for his outstanding contributions to ultrafast laser science
and attosecond physics.

According to a 2014 report by Thomson Reuters,
he is among the world’s most influential scientific researchers.

In 2023, Dr. Krausz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
“for the development of experimental methods that generate attosecond light pulses
for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”