Ataç İmamoğlu
Ataç İmamoğlu | |
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| Born | August 12, 1964 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Education | TED Ankara College |
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| Fields | Quantum optics |
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Ataç İmamoğlu[1] (born August 12, 1964) is a Turkish-Swiss physicist working on quantum optics and quantum computation. His academic interests are quantum optics, semiconductor physics, and nonlinear optics.
Education
[edit]İmamoğlu graduated from TED Ankara College in 1981.[2] He received his BSc in electrical engineering at the Middle East Technical University, and his Ph.D. from Stanford for his work on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Lasers without Inversion. He did post-doctoral work on atomic and molecular physics at Harvard.
Career
[edit]In 1993, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1999, he became a professor of electrical engineering and physics. In 2001 he moved to the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Since 2002, he has been working at ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland, where he is heading the research group on Quantum Photonics.
His group at ETHZ investigates quantum optics of solid-state zero-dimensional emitters, such as quantum dots or defects, embedded in photonic nano-structures. They are particularly interested in understanding physical properties that distinguish these solid-state systems from their atomic counterparts. Controlling quantum dynamics of quantum dot spins for applications in quantum information processing is one of their principal goals.[3] As of February 2009, he had received ~8600 citations according to the Web of Science.
Awards and honors
[edit]He received the Charles Townes Award of the Optical Society of America in 2010, Quantum Electronics Award of IEEE in 2009, the Muhammed Dahleh Award of UCSB in 2006, the Wolfgang Paul Award of the Humboldt Foundation in 2002, the TÜBİTAK prize for physics in 2001, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in 1996, and National Science Foundation Career Award in 1995.[4] He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, of the Optical Society of America and the Turkish National Academy of Sciences.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Ataç İmamoğlu was elected to The American Physical Society Fellow in 2002.
- ^ "Fizikte Tüm Dünyanın Tanıdığı Bir İsim: Ataç İmamoğlu '81" (PDF). Kolejliler (in Turkish). No. 103. October 2010. p. 28-29.
- ^ ETHZ on quantum photonics
- ^ IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award Recipient: Atac Imamoglu ieee.org [dead link]
- ^ "Atac Imamoglu". ETH Zürich. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
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- TED Ankara College Foundation Schools alumni
- Middle East Technical University alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- Academic staff of ETH Zurich
- Living people
- 1964 births
- Scientists from Minneapolis
- Turkish physicists
- Turkish academics
- 21st-century American physicists
- Quantum physicists
- Swiss electronics engineers
- Turkish electronics engineers
- Swiss electrical engineers
- Turkish electrical engineers
- Optical engineers
- Fellows of Optica (society)
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Recipients of TÜBİTAK Science Award
- Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- Academic staff of the University of Stuttgart
- Electrical engineering academics
- 21st-century Turkish scientists