Professor Majed Chergui | |
|---|---|
 Majed Chergui in 2022 | |
| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Casablanca, Morocco |
| Known for | Ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy Ultrafast 2-dimensional Chiral spectroscopy |
| Awards | Rognlie Award 2023 (American Crystallographic Association) Ahmed Zewail Award 2021 (American Chemical Society) Liversidge Award 2019 (Royal Society of Chemistry) Earle K. Plyler Award 2015 (American Physical Society) Edward Stern Prize 2015 (International X-ray Absorption Society) Khwarizmi International Award Humboldt Research Award 2010 Kuwait Prize for Physics 2009 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Physics Mathematics |
| Alma mater | University of London Paris-Sud University, Orsay Université Paris Nord,Villetaneuse |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacques Bauche |
| Other advisors | Venkataraman Chandrasekharan Nikolaus Schwentner |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Physics |
| Sub-discipline | Atomic physics Molecular physics |
| Institutions | EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste |
| Website | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lsu/ https://www.elettra.eu/ |
Majed Chergui (born 1956 in Casablanca) is a Swiss and French physicist specialized in ultrafast dynamics of light-induced processes. He is a Honorary professor of the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the Université de Lausanne. He was founding director of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) at the EPFL between 2016 and 2021.[1][2]
He is now project leader at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy).[3]
- ^ "Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy LSU". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Lausanne Center for Ultrafast Science". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Chergui's CHIRAX project at Elettra Sincrotrone". Retrieved 6 August 2024.