Physicist, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
External Member of the 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 for mapping the motion of electrons within atoms,
thereby laying the foundations of the field now 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 and teachers were two internationally renowned Hungarian physicists
of the twentieth century, Károly Simonyi Sr. and György Marx.
Inspired by Simonyi’s lectures, Krausz chose the study of
electrons and light 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 Achievements

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

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.
Between 2010 and 2014, he served as a strategic advisor to the President of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He is also a recipient of the Otto Hahn Prize
awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG).

Awards and Honors

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

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

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