费伦茨·克劳斯1962—

生平

克劳斯生于匈牙利莫尔，曾在罗兰大学学习理论物理，在布达佩斯科技经济大学学习电气工程。之后进入维也纳科技大学学习，后成为该校教授。2003年，他成为马克斯·普朗克量子光学研究所所长，并在2004年成为慕尼黑大学实验物理主任。2006年，他与人创立了慕尼黑光子学中心。2013年他获得费萨尔国王国际奖及奥托·哈恩奖。2023年他与安妮·吕利耶、皮埃尔·阿戈斯蒂尼共同获颁诺贝尔物理学奖。他于2025年11月起担任香港大学物理学系激光物理学讲座教授。

Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962) is a Hungarian physicist working in attosecond science. He was a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at LMU Munich in Germany. His research team generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons' motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Since November 2025, he has been Chair Professor at Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

Academic career

From 1981 until 1985 Krausz studied theoretical physics at Eötvös Loránd University and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest in Hungary. From 1987 to 1991 he graduated with a PhD at the Technical University of Vienna, in Austria, and from 1991 to 1993 he also did his habilitation there. 1996–1998 he became associate professor, from 1999 until 2004 professor of electrical engineering at the same institute.

In 2003, he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, and in 2004 became chair of experimental physics at LMU Munich.

In November 2025, he was appointed Chair Professor at Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

Honors and awards

• 2006 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
• 2006 – Royal Photographic Society Progress medal and Honorary Fellowship
• 2009 – elected a Fellow of Optica
• 2013 – Otto Hahn Prize

2015 – selected Clarivate Citation laureate in Physics with Paul Corkum "for contributions to the development of attosecond physics."

2016 – Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

2019 – Vladilen Letokhov Medal.

2022 – Wolf Prize in Physics with Anne L'Huillier and Corkum "for pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics".

2022 – BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences with L'Huillier and Corkum.

2023 – Nobel Prize in Physics with L'Huillier and Pierre Agostini "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter."