Atac Imamoglu#
Membership Number: | 3330 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Homepage(s): | http://www.quantumphotonics.ethz.ch |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Professor, ETH Zurich, Department of Physics
- 1999 - 2002 Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 2001 Member, University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute of Theoretical Physics
- 1997 - 1999 Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 1993 - 1997 Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum optics in nanoscale semiconductors
- Solid-state quantum information processing
- Optical investigation of non-equilibrium many-body phenomena
- Strongly interacting photons
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Member of the (newly founded) Science Academy of Turkey
- 2010 OSA Charles Townes Award
- 2009 IEEE Quantum Electronics Award
- 2008 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2006 The Muhammed Dahleh Award of UC Santa Barbara
- 2004 Member of the Turkish National Academy of Sciences (resigned on 3.11.2011)
- 2002 Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2001 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Wolfgang Paul Award
- 2001 Fellow, Optical Society of America
- 2001 Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey Science Award
- 1996 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship