Tobias Weitz receives the Applied Photonics Award
Tobias Weitz
2023
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The Applied Photonics Award honors particularly original and innovative theses dealing with the topics of applied photonics by young researchers. Dr. Weitz reseach on light-field driven logic gates was recognised for its potential in using extremely short and intense laser pulses to not only overcome current limitations of computer processing speeds, but to dramatically increase them.
Philippe Burden receives Outstanding Poster Award at the International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions
Philippe Burden
2023
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This award highlights his excellent poster “Novel high harmonic beamline design for ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy”. This research was performed within the Stolow group.
Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize
Robert Boyd
2023
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Awarded by Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America, it is the highest award of the Society, recognizing overall distinction in optics. The prize was established in 1928 by Herbert E. Ives in honor of his father, Frederic Ives. It was awarded to Dr. Boyd for pioneering contributions to nonlinear optics, including slow light, quantum imaging and the development of nanocomposite optical materials and metamaterials.
Ferenc Krausz is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
Ferenc Krausz
2023
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. In the world of electrons, changes occur in a few tenths of an attosecond. An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second. Experiments with such short pulses of light make it possible to provide images of processes taking place inside atoms and molecules. In 2001, Ferenc Krausz was able to isolate a single light pulse that lasted 650 attoseconds.
Tobias Boolakee receives the Nano innovation award
Tobias Boolakee
2022
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Tobias Boolakee from the Hommelhoff group was awarded the first prize of the Nano Innovation Award from the Center for NanoScience of the Ludwig Maximilians University. His first demonstration of an electronic logic gate controlled by ultrashort laser pulses has the potential to make computational operations at least ten thousand times faster than they are now. Named petahertz or lightwave electronics, this collaborative work with the University of Rochester is the object of this award.
Peter Hommelhoff receives the 2022 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Peter Hommelhoff
2022
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The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important research award in Germany and is awarded by the DFG. The Leibniz Programme, established in 1985 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), honours outstanding scientists and academics, expands their research opportunities, and helps them employ particularly qualified early career researchers. It was awarded in 2022 to Dr. Hommelhoff for his fundamental contributions to electron dynamics driven by strong light fields and the
Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics
Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz
2022
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The Wolf Prize is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists from around the world for achievements in the interest of humanity and friendly relations among people. It was awarded to Drs. Corkum, Krausz and L’Huillier for pioneering and novel work in the fields of ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics and for demonstrating time-resolved imaging of electron motion in atoms, molecules, and solids. Each of them made crucial contributions, both to the technical development of attosecond physics and to its application to fundamental physics studies.
Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz
2022
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards recognize and reward world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of singular impact for their originality and significance. Drs. Corkum and Krausz, jointly received this award with Dr. Anne L’Huillier “for enabling subatomic particles to be observed in motion over the shortest time scale captured by science.”
Christian Heide’s dissertation recognised by three awards
Christian Heide
2021
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Dr. Heide’s Ph.D. dissertation “Attosecond-fast electron dynamics in graphene and graphene-based interfaces” has brought him a total of three awards! First he received the Ohm prize of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Physics department, which is awarded each year to the best theses of the department. Further, he received the the 2021 Dissertation Award from DPG’s Solid State Physics Section, as well as the 2021 Dissertation Award 2021 from the German Society
Tamara Pröbster takes first place in the Bavarian state youth research competition in the field of physics
Tamara Pröbster
2021
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Jugend forscht (“Youth researches”) is a German youth science competition. With more than 10,000 participants annually, it is the biggest youth science and technology competition in Europe. Tamara Pröbster research project, carried out in Dr. Hommelhoff’s research group, demonstrated how ultrafast light-induced electron emission from graphene can be decoupled into various processes. This research was recognised by awarding her the first place in the state of Bavaria.
Ebrahim Karimi receives the uOttawa Early Career Researcher of the Year award
Ebrahim Karimi
2020
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This award recognizes the innovative and original research of Professor Ebrahim Karimi at such an early stage of his career.
Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, American Physical Society, 2020
Robert Boyd
2020
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This prize recognizes outstanding optical research that leads to breakthroughs in the condensed matter sciences. Dr. Boyd was awarded this prize “For pioneering contributions to the discipline of composite optical materials and metamaterials, including seminal work on the understanding of nanoscale optical composites, and for developing metamaterials and metasurfaces for crucial photonics applications.”
Robert Boyd receives the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research
Robert Boyd
2019
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Robert Boyd was awarded this honour for the importance and exceptional characteristics his research work, which has earned distinction for himself and for the University of Ottawa.
Ebrahim Karimi is awarded the uOttawa Faculty of Science’s Research Excellence Award
Ebrahim Karimi
2019
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Paul Corkum awarded the 2019 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
Paul Corkum
2019
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Boris Braverman receives a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Boris Braverman
2019
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Dr. Braverman was awarded this prestigious grant for his outstanding proposal on “High-dimensional Entanglement for Applications in Quantum Photonics”.
Robert Boyd elected as fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)
Robert Boyd
2019
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Robert Boyd was elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for "For fundamental contributions to optical physics and specifically to the field of nonlinear optics."
Timo Eckstein receives the Applied Photonics Award in the category Master Thesis
Timo Eckstein
2019
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The “Applied Photonics Award” is a prize for the promotion of young researchers for theses that are particularly relevant in the field of applied photonics. Timo Eckstein’s thesis on “Measurement and simulation of ultrafast optical phase-controlled 2-coloured coherent electron interference in monolayer graphene” was completed under the supervision of Dr. Hommelhoff.
Christian Heide receives outstanding poster award at Symposium on Synthetic Carbon Allotropes
Christian Heide
2019
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The poster describes new data on attosecond-fast charge transfer from the two-dimensional material graphene, to a bulk material Silicon Carbide.
Paul Corkum awarded the 2018 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
Paul Corkum
2018
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Professor Paul Corkum of University of Ottawa and National Research Council of Canada for his outstanding contributions to experimental physics and to attosecond science.
Gerd Leuchs receives the Herbert-Walther-Preis awarded by the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the German Physical Society (DPG)
Gerd Leuchs
2018
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The award was given to Leuchs 'for his pioneering and widespread scientific contributions ranging from ultrasmall focii of light to nonlinear optics, squeezed states of light and their application in metrology and quantum information, as well as for a continuing commitment to the physics community, quantum optics and his students and team members.'
Paul Corkum awarded the 2018 SPIE Gold Medal Award
Paul Corkum
2018
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Paul Corkum received the highest honor that SPIE bestows, during an evening ceremony at SPIE Optics + Photonics in San Diego. The SPIE Gold Medal of the Society recognizes outstanding accomplishments in optics, electro-optics, or photographic technologies or applications.
Ebrahim Karimi wins the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
Ebrahim Karimi
2018
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Ebrahim Karimi received the award for the development of structured massive particle beams for improved electron and ion microscopy that could help answer unsolved puzzles in quantum physics.
Albert Stolow awarded the John C. Polanyi Award by the Canadian Society for Chemistry
Albert Stolow
2018
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The John C. Polanyi Award is presented for excellence by a scientist carrying out research in Canada in physical, theoretical or computational chemistry or chemical physics.
Philip Russell receives the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics
Philip Russell
2018
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The Rank Prize for Optoelectronics is awarded for research at the inter-face between optics and electronics and closely related phenomena.
Albert Stolow elected Vice Chair Elect of the Division of Chemical Physics, American Physical Society (2018-2019)
Albert Stolow
2018
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Albert Stolow was elected Vice Chair Elect of the Division of Chemical Physics, American Physical Society (2018-2019)
Paul Corkum receives an honorary PhD from Aix-Marseille University, France
Paul Corkum
2018
Paul Corkum received an honorary PhD from Aix-Marseille University, France
Albert Stolow elected Chair Elect of the Division of Chemical Physics, American Physical Society (2019-2020)
Albert Stolow
2018
Albert Stolow was elected Chair Elect of the Division of Chemical Physics, American Physical Society (2019-2020)
Robert Boyd is elected to the position of Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Robert Boyd
2018
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The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is a learned society of eminent scientists with international reputation.
Robert Boyd named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert Boyd
2018
Robert Boyd named was fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Robert Boyd. He is among 416 members of the association being recognized for their “efforts toward advancing scientific applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”
Ebrahim Karimi elected as a fellow of the Optical Society (OSA).
Ebrahim Karimi
2018
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Ebrahim Karimi elected as a fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) for outstanding and sustained contributions to the research and development of structured quantum waves, particularly singular optics, optical angular momentum, and quantum information.
Ebrahim Karimi elected as the uOttawa Faculty of Science Young Researcher of the Year, 2018.
Ebrahim Karimi
2018
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Ebrahim Karimi elected as the Faculty of Science Young Researcher of the Year, 2018.
Pierre Berini elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)
Pierre Berini
2018
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Pierre Berini has been selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), for his “…highly innovative and pioneering contributions to nanophotonics, particularly to the fields of surface plasmons and metamaterials”.
Pierre Berini elected as Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA)
Pierre Berini
2018
Pierre Berini was elected as Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), “For scientific achievements that have led to remarkable new insights in the field of nanophotonics, including pioneering contributions to surface plasmon photonics”
Hanieh Fattahi elected as Member of Elisabeth-Schiemann Kolleg of the Max Planck Society
Hanieh Fattahi
2018
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Orad Reshef receives a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Orad Reshef
2017
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Dr. Reshef was awarded this prestigious grant for his outstanding proposal on “Nonlinear optics in integrated zero-index media”.
Gerd Leuchs receives an honorary professorship at the Institute of Chemistry at the St. Petersburg State University
Gerd Leuchs
2017
Gerd Leuchs received the title of "Honorary Professor" at the Institute of Chemistry at the St. Petersburg State University.
Gerd Leuchs receives the Julius von Haast Fellowship Award of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Gerd Leuchs
2017
Gerd Leuchs receives the Julius von Haast Fellowship Award of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Hanieh Fattahi selected for the Max Planck Society’s Minerva Fast Track Programme
Hanieh Fattahi
2017
Dr. Hanieh Fattahi, a young physicist at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, has been chosen for the Max Planck Society’s Minerva Fast Track Programme.
Paul Corkum awarded the Royal Medal by the U.K.’s Royal Society
Paul Corkum
2017
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The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. Fellows and Foreign Members are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science.
Paul Corkum receives the Schneider Medal awarded by the National Research Council Canada
Paul Corkum
2017
NRC’s Schneider medal is the highest distinction bestowed upon employees.
Albert Stolow receives the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics awarded by the American Physical Society
Albert Stolow
2017
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Professor Stolow was recognised "For the development of methods for probing and controlling ultrafast dynamics in polyatomic molecules, including time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and imaging, strong field molecular ionization, and dynamic Stark quantum control."
Robert Boyd elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the fields of nonlinear optics and photonics
Robert Boyd
2017
The IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honours of the IEEE, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of Senior Members who have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology bringing significant value to our society. Dr. Boyd was recognized for his contributions to the fields of nonlinear optics and photonics.
Paul Corkum receives an honorary PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark
Paul Corkum
2016
Paul Corkum receives an honorary PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark
Gerd Leuchs elected as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Gerd Leuchs
2016
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Gerd Leuchs was elected as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Gerd Leuchs receives an honorary doctoral degree from the Danish Technical University (DTU) in Lyngby, Denmark
Gerd Leuchs
2016
On 29 April 2016 Gerd Leuchs received the honorary doctoral degree of the Denmark's Technical University (DTU) at Lyngby.
Ferenc Krausz elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Ferenc Krausz
2016
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The Board of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften" has elected Professor Ferenc Krausz, as a member in recognition of his "scientific achievements and personality".
Ebrahim Karimi appointed as the Canada Research Chair in Structured Light
Ebrahim Karimi
2016
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Karimi’s research will lead to a more efficient and compact way to structure light for applications such as quantum computation, quantum information, nano-sensing, and super-dense coding. Ultimately, these devices could open the door to developing ultra-secure communication schemes and ways of transmitting sensitive messages rapidly across the globe.
Paul Corkum elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Paul Corkum
2016
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Paul Corkum was elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Robert Fickler receives a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Robert Fickler
2016
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Dr. Fickler was awarded this prestigious grant for his outstanding proposal on "Twisting Macroscopic Quantum Light - Advancing applications and foundations of bright squeezed vacuum by introducing orbital angular momentum of light".
Robert Boyd awarded the Charles Hard Townes Award by the Optical Society of America
Robert Boyd
2016
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Professor Boyd was awarded this honour for "for fundamental contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, including the development of methods for controlling the velocity of light, of quantum imaging methods, and of composite nonlinear optical materials."
Robert Boyd awarded the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science by the American Physical Society
Robert Boyd
2016
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Professor Boyd was recognised "For fundamental contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, including the development of approaches for controlling the velocity of light, of quantum imaging methods, and of composite nonlinear optical materials."
Robert Boyd selected as 2016-2017 IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer
Robert Boyd
2016
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The IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Program was designed to honor excellent speakers who have made technical, industrial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field of photonics and to enhance the technical programs of the IEEE Photonics Society Chapters.
Vahid Sandoghdar elected as a fellow of the Optical Society of America
Vahid Sandoghdar
2015
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OSA Fellows are selected based on their overall impact on optics, as gauged through factors such as specific scientific, engineering, and technological contributions, a record of significant publications or patents related to optics, technical leadership in the field, and service to OSA and the global optics community.
Philip Russell awarded the 2015 IEEE Photonics Award
Philip Russell
2015
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Established in 2002, the IEEE Photonics Awarded for outstanding achievements in photonics.
Philip Russel elected as the 2015 president of the Optical Society of America
Philip Russell
2015
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Gerd Leuchs elected as a member of Senate of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Gerd Leuchs
2015
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The Leopoldina’s Senate represents the interests of the Academy’s members before the Presidium and advises the Presidium.
Paul Corkum receives the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Paul Corkum
2015
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The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Since 1967, two medals are awarded annually: one to a Russian and one to a foreign scientist.
Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz selected as 2015 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate
Paul Corkum
2015
Thomson Reuters has selected Professor Paul Corkum, as a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate for "his contributions to the field of Physics".
Peter Banzer receives a Feodor-Lynen-Research-Fellowship
Peter Banzer
2015
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Peter Banzer receives a Feodor-Lynen-Research-Fellowship for Experienced Researchers awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Paul Corkum receives an honorary PhD from the Université Laval, Canada
Paul Corkum
2015
Paul Corkum receives an honorary PhD from the Université Laval, Canada
Paul Corkum receives an honorary PhD from Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Paul Corkum
2015
Paul Corkum receives an honorary PhD from Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Robert Boyd selected as 2015-2016 IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer
Robert Boyd
2015
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The IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Program was designed to honor excellent speakers who have made technical, industrial or entrepreneurial contributions to the field of photonics and to enhance the technical programs of the IEEE Photonics Society Chapters.