Leuchs Gerhard

Year of birth

1950

Academic degree

PhD

Field of studies

Physics

Director Emeritus Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Germany)

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Leading scientist's research interests: Quantum optics, nanophotonics, classical optics, precision metrology, atomic spectroscopy

Quote by the head of the laboratory: Our research is devoted to extreme conditions in optics, quantum physics and elementary particle physics: generation and focusing high intensity radiation, overcoming limits of focusing, overcoming standard quantum limits and to creation of pairs of elementary particles in vacuum. Combination of all these complex and intriguing topics or a part of them promises better understanding of fundamental basics and proposing new original ideas as well as new opportunities for technological applications.

Awards and achievements:

2019 - Elected to the Board of Directors of Optical Society of America (USA)

2018 – Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia).

2017 – Herbert Walther Award of the Optical Society of America and the German Physical Society (USA, Germany).

2013 – Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (European Union).

2012 – Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Germany).

2011 – F. I. Fyodorov Award of the Belarusian Physical Society (Belarus).

2005 – Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany).

2005 – Award in quantum electronics and optics of the European Physical Society (Germany).

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Hosting organization	Field of studies	City	Invited researcher	Time span of the project
Functional Quantum Materials Laboratory National University of Science and Technology MISIS - (NUST MISIS)	Physics	Moscow	Klingeler Rudiger	2021-2023
Laboratory of the Spin Physics of Two-Dimensional Materials Р.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the RAS - (LPI)	Physics	Moscow	Yakovlev Dmitriy Robertovich Russia	2021-2023
Laboratory for Microwave Photonics and Magnonics named after B. A. Kalinikos Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University «LETI» - (ETU LETI)	Physics	St. Petersburg	Kostylev Mikhail Pavlovich Australia, Russia	2021-2023