Jean Michel Raimond PhD

Dr. M. Raimond's PhD thesis was supervised by Serge Haroche at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, in the early 1980′s, and together S. Haroche, M. Brune and J.-M. Raimond has built an extremely successful research group since then. J.-M. Raimond has made seminal contributions to the development of cavity QED experiments, in particular involving circular Rydberg atoms interacting with very high-Q superconducting cavities. This system has served as a test-bed for groundbreaking experiments in exploring the entanglement of photons and atoms, or in creating Schrödinger-cat states. One of the group's most spectacular experiments is the detection of a photon in a cavity without destroying it in the measurement process. In the international scientific community,

J.-M. Raimond is a professor at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University in Paris since 1988, in addition, he was appointed for a ten-year research position at the prestigious Institut Universitaire de France from 2001-2011 (and is an honorary member since then). He has been awarded the Ampere Prize of the French Academy of Science (together with M. Brune), as well as the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Award by the German Humboldt Foundation. He is an enthusiastic teacher and has also served in different positions for the management and organization of science and higher education.