Gerd Leuchs

Gerd Leuchs
Leuchs in 2019
Born
Gerhard Leuchs

(1950-06-14) June 14, 1950 (age 74)
Wuppertal, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationUniversity of Cologne (B.S.)
University of Munich (Ph.D.)
Awards
  • Quantum Electronics Prize (2005)
  • Julius von Haast Fellowship Award (2017)
  • Herbert Walther Award (2018)
Scientific career
Fieldsoptics, quantum information science
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
University of Ottawa

Gerhard "Gerd" Leuchs (born June 14, 1950) is a German experimental physicist in optics. He is the Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and an adjunct professor in the physics department at the University of Ottawa.[1] From 1994-2019 he was a full professor of physics and since 2019 has been a senior professor at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

Leuchs holds honorary degrees from the Technical University of Denmark and Saint Petersburg State University.[2] He serves as the President of Optica (formerly the Optical Society) in 2024.[3]

  1. ^ "Gerd Leuchs | Optica". www.optica.org. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  2. ^ IEEE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37266453300. Retrieved 2023-12-07. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Template, Graphodata. "Optica President 2024". mpl.mpg.de. Retrieved 2024-10-26.