Thomas Elsaesser PhD

Thomas Elsaesser, born in 1957, studied physics in Heidelberg and at the Technical University of Munich where he received his diploma degree in 1982. At TU Munich, he finished his PhD work on ultrashort infrared spectroscopy in 1986. From 1986 until 1993, he worked at the Physics Department of TU Munich as a research associate. In 1990, he spent a postdoc period at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA. 1991 he finished his habilitation at the TU Munich.

Since 1993, he has been a director at the Max-Born-Institute and since 1994 a full (S) professor of experimental physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). In 2004, he worked as a professeur invité at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has published more than 370 papers and holds six patents.

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and received the Rudolf-Kaiser-Prize in 1991, the Otto-Klung-Prize for Physics in 1995, and an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2009. Prof. Elsaesser serves as a Divisional Associate Editor for »Physical Review Letters« and is a member of the Editorial Boards of several international journals. He is a member of several scientific advisory boards and programme committees.