Serge Haroche

Quantum Physics

Biography

 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Present Position:
Professeur at Collège de France ( 2001- ), Chaire de Physique Quantique

Address:
Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005,
Paris, France. Tel: (33-1) 44323420, Fax:(33-1) 44 32 34 94; e-mail: haroche@lkb.ens.fr

Personal status:
Born September 11, 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco; French citizen; Married, two children.

Academic Training and degrees:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 1963-1967
Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Paris 1967 and Agrégation de Physique, Paris 1967
Thèse d'Etat de Physique (PhD in Physics), Paris 1971

Former Positions:
Attaché de recherches au CNRS, Paris, 1967-1971
Chargé de recherches au CNRS, Paris, 1971-1973
Maître de recherches au CNRS, Paris, 1973-1975
Maître de conferences at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1973-1984
Visiting scholar at Stanford University, 1972-1973,1976 and 1979.
Visiting scientist at M.I.T. (Cambridge, USA) 1979
Visiting Professor at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), 1981
Professor at Yale University (part time), (New Haven, CT, USA) 1984-93
Professeur de Physique at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 1975 -2001
Professeur at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, September 1982 -2001
Member of Institut Universitaire de France, December 1991-2001
Directeur du Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1994-2000

Prizes and Awards:
Prix Aimé Cotton of the French Physical Society, 1971
Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University, 1980
Grand Prix de Physique Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society, 1983
Einstein Prize for Laser Science (Industrial and University Research Affiliates), 1988
Humboldt Award, Germany (1992).
Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (1993).
EPS travelling lecturer (1993-94).
Manne Siegbahn Lecture, Stockholm (2000)
Tomassoni award of La Sapienza University, Rome (2001)
Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society (2002)
Quantum Communication Award of the International Organization for Quantum
Communication, Measurement and Computing and Tamagawa University (Japan) (2002).
Townes Award of the Optical Society of America (2007)
Gra Cruz Ordem Nacional Do Merito Cientifico, Brazil (2007)
Médaille d'Or du CNRS (CNRS Gold Medal) (2009)
Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council (2009)
Herbert Walther Award of the German Physical Society and Optical Society of America (2010)

Membership in Professional Institutions:
French Physical Society
European Physical Society (EPS)
American Physical Society, Member 1988, Fellow 1990

Membership in Scientific Academies:
Member of Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1993
Member (Foreign associate) of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 2009
Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2009
Member (Foreign associate) of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2010

 
 
 
 

Short biographic note

Serge Haroche was born in 1944 in Casablanca. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), receiving his doctorate from Paris VI University in 1971 (thesis advisor: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji). After a post-doctoral visit to Stanford University in the laboratory of Arthur Schawlow (1972-73), he became full professor at Paris VI University in 1975, a position he held until 2001, when he was appointed Professor at Collège de France (in the chair of quantum physics). He has been Maitre de Conference at Ecole Polytechique (1974-1984), visiting professor at Harvard (1981), part time professor at Yale University (1984-1993), member of Institut Universitaire de France (1991-2000) and chairman of the ENS Department of Physics (1994-2000). His research has mostly taken place in laboratoire Kastler Brossel at ENS, where he now works with a team of senior coworkers, postdocs and graduate students.
Serge Haroche has received many prizes and awards, including the Grand Prix Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society (1983), the Einstein Prize for Laser science (1988), the Humbold Award (1992), the Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute (1993), the Tomassoni Award from La Sapienza University (Rome, 2001), the Quantum Electronics prize of the European Physical Society (2002), the Quantum Communication Award of the International
Organization for Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (2002), the Townes Award of the Optical Society of America, the CNRS Gold Medal (2009) and the Herbert Walter Prize of the German Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. He has received in 2009 a five year advanced research grant
from the European Research Council (ERC).