EPS-QEOD (Quantum Electronics and Optics Division) Prizes
A series of prestigious EPS-QEOD Prizes and Awards distributed in uneven years will be presented in a special Plenary and Awards Ceremony during CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2025 to take place on TBD.EPS-QEOD (Quantum Electronics and Optics Division) Prizes
A series of prestigious EPS-QEOD Prizes and Awards distributed in uneven years will be presented in a special Plenary and Awards Ceremony during CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2023 to take place on Tuesday morning, June 27, 2023.2023-EPS-QEOD Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize
The 2023 EPS-QEOD Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize for applied aspects is awarded to Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, for pioneering and outstanding contributions to the generation of few-cycle light pulses and for their application to the study of primary photoinduced processes in (bio)molecules and nanostructures.
2023-EPS-QEOD Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize
Prof. The 2023 EPS-QEOD Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize for fundamental aspects is awarded to Vahid Sandoghdar, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany, for ground-breaking research on the efficiency of light-matter interaction in quantum optics and biophysics, leading to single-molecule strong coupling and label-free detection of small proteins.
Applied aspects
The 2023 Fresnel Prize for applied aspects is awarded to Zuo Chao, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu, China, for pioneering contributions to computational phase imaging and metrology, particularly for noninterferometic quantitative phase imaging and high-speed 3D optical metrology.
Fundamental aspects
The 2023 Fresnel Prize for fundamental aspects is awarded to Xiaochun Gong, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, for outstanding contributions to the field of attosecond science and for developing attosecond coincidence metrology to ultrafast photonics.
Predictive Modelling of Ultrafast Hot Carrier Dynamics and Nonlinear Photothermal Phenomena in Designer Nanophotonic Structures.
The 2023 EPS-QEOD Thesis Prize for fundamental aspects is awarded to Andrea Schirato, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, for having introduced spatially-resolved models for the hot carrier ultrafast dynamics and inherent photothermal nonlinearities, disclosing nonequilibrium regimes so far unexplored in nanophotonics.
Ultrafast Ultrastrong light-matter coupling at the nanoscale
The 2023 EPS-QEOD Thesis Prize for fundamental aspects is awarded to Shima Rajabali, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, for his thesis investigating the limits of interaction between light and matter at terahertz frequencies in a highly light-matter coupled system shrunk to the nanoscale.
Heralded Spectroscopy - a new probe for nanocrystal multiexciton photophysics.
Dr. Paulo André Dias Gonçalves, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain for
fundamental contributions to nanoscale electrodynamics and light–matter
interactions with the incorporation of quantum mechanical effects in
metal nanostructures and two-dimensional nanophotonics.
Noise-resilient entanglement distribution in high-dimensional state spaces
The 2023 EPS-QEOD Thesis Prize for applied aspects is awarded to Sebastian Ecker, Quantum Technology Laboratories GmbH, Vienna, Austria, for theoretical and experimental investigations of the use of high-dimensional quantum information encoding to improve entanglement distribution in the presence of noise and loss.