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Ursula Keller has been a physics professor at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 2003 with a speciality in ultrafast laser technology, an inventor and the winner of the 2018 European Inventor Award by the European Patent Office.
Career
After graduating as a physics engineer in 1984 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Ursula Keller continued her studies at Stanford University, where she obtained a master's degree in applied physics in 1987, and then continued with a doctorate in physics obtained in 1989. The topic of her studies was the development of a new technique for optical measurement of charge and voltage in GaAs type integrated circuits.
From 1989 to 1993, she worked at AT&T Bell's research centre in New Jersey, where she conducted research on photonic switching, ultrafast laser technology and semiconductor spectroscopy and developed a method for manufacturing ultra-short pulse lasers.
In 1993, she was appointed Professor of Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, becoming the school's first female Professor of Physics [1]. In October 1997, she became a full professor.
Her research areas are ultrafast solid-state and semiconductor lasers, the development of reliable and functional instruments to generate extreme ultraviolet (EUV) X-rays and attosecond science. She developed the first method for generating ultra-fast light pulses known as SESAM, an acronym for "semiconductor saturable absorber mirror" that has become a worldwide industry standard for cutting and welding in fields ranging from electronics and automotive industry to communications technology, medical diagnostics and surgery and has made myriad important contributions to the field of laser science since.[2] Dr. Keller’s earlier research into carrier envelope phase stabilization and frequency comb technology was integral to Theodor W. Hänsch and John L. Hall’s development of laser-based spectroscopy that garnered them the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics.[3]
Ursula Keller is the founder and president of ETH Women Professors Forum[4]
Ursula Keller has patented several inventions in the field of ultra-fast lasers for industrial and medical applications.[5]
She is the creator of the Attoclock, one of the most accurate time measurement devices in the world, which can record time intervals up to a few attoseconds, the billionth part of a billionth of a second.[6]
Since 2010, Ursula Keller has been Director of the Swiss National Research Centre for Ultrafast Molecular Sciences and Technologies.
Since 2014, she has been a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.[6]
In 2018, Ursula Keller won the European Inventor Award in the "Lifetime Achievement ".[5] In 2019, she was appointed as one of the leading experts that judges proposals for this award.[7]
Awards and honors
Keller was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014[8] for contributions to ultrashort pulse mode locked laser physics and technology. She received the Weizmann Women and Science Award in 2017,[9] and in 2018, she won the European Inventor Award 2018 for laser technology in the category “Lifetime achievement.”.[10][5] In November 2019, the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers announced that Keller would receive the 2020 SPIE Gold Medal.[11]
References
- ^ Logean, Sylvie (2018-04-25). "Ursula Keller a vu la lumière au bout du laser". Le Temps (in French).
- ^ "The Group". ulp.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
- ^ "Ursula Keller - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Ursula Keller | Women In Science". www.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
- ^ a b c "Swiss physicist wins European Inventor Award for laser technology". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
- ^ a b Echos, Les (2018-05-03). "Des impulsions laser ultrarapides pour l'industrie et la médecine". lesechos.fr (in French).
- ^ Office, European Patent. "European Inventor Award: jury members". www.epo.org. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
- ^ "2014 elevated fellow". IEEE Fellows Directory.
- ^ "Ursula Keller receives Weizmann Women & Science Award". www.phys.ethz.ch. 2017-06-07. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
- ^ Six award winning inventors changing the world. Euronews, 7 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
- ^ "Ursula Keller: The 2020 SPIE Gold Medal". SPIE. November 13, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
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