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Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian physicist, who was born in Mór, Hungary on 17 May 1962. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest (BME) and in physics from Eötvös Loránd University in 1985. Krausz began his research work in the field of laser physics at BME’s Institute of Physics and went on to obtain a PhD from the Technical University of Vienna in 1991, where he worked as an associate professor and later full professor. In 2003, he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany and also became chair of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2004. Krausz has been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2007. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2022. In 2023, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science awarded Ferenc Krausz, Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier the Nobel Prize in Physics “ for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
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