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]
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/ |
He is now project leader at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy).[3]
Early life and education
editMajed Chergui was born in Casablanca (Morocco) in 1956 and grew up in Algeria and Lebanon. He received his BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Chelsea College (now King’s college, University of London) in 1977, his Master's degree in atomic and molecular physics from the Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, now Université Paris-Saclay) in 1978 and his PhD from the same University in 1981. In 1986, he received his Habilitation under the supervision of Venkataraman Chandrasekharan at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. Between 1987 and 1989, he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the group of Professor Nikolaus Schwentner at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the Free University of Berlin.
Career
editM. Chergui was assistant Lecturer of Physics at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord between 1980 and 1982, then research assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) between 1982 and 1989. From 1987 till 1993, he worked at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the Free University of Berlin, first as a postdoc, then as senior research assistant. In 1993 he was appointed full professor of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Lausanne, where he stayed until 2003, to move to the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as Professor of Chemistry and Physics and head of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences. He founded the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) at the EPFL in 2016 and was its director until 2021.[4][5] In 2022, he retired and became Honorary Professor of the EPFL[6] and group leader at the Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy).
He has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Chemical Physics between 2009 and 2014. He then founded the journal “Structural Dynamics” (AIP Publishing) and was its Editor-in-Chief between 2014 and 2020.[7]
He is mostly known for pioneering developments in ultrafast (picosecond-femtosecond) X-ray spectroscopies, and ultrafast multidimensional deep-ultraviolet spectroscopy, which he utilised to solve scientific questions in Physical (Bio)Chemistry and in Materials Science.
Honours and Awards
edit- Rognlie Award of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) 2023[8]
- Winner of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant 2022[9]
- Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology 2021, American Chemical Society.[10]
- Liversidge Award 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry.[11]
- Khwarizmi International Award.[12]
- Winner of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant 2016[13]
- Edward Stern Prize for Lifetime Achievements 2015 (International X-ray Absorption Society) [14]
- Earle K. Plyler Award 2015 (American Physical Society)[15]
- Humboldt Research Award 2010 (Germany)[16]
- Kuwait Prize for Physics 2009 (Kuwait) [17]
- Rammal Medal 2007 (Euroscience Foundation, Strasbourg)[18]
- Bronze Medal of the CNRS 1982
He is also Fellow of:
the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2014 (UK), the European Physical Society (EPS) 2015,[19] the American Physical Society (APS) 2015 (USA),[20] The Optical Society of America 2016 (USA), American Crystallographic Association (ACA) 2018 (USA),[21] the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) 2021,[22] The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) 2022, as well as Foreign Correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences since 2018.
References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy LSU". Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science".
- ^ "CHERGUI Majed, Hon Prof". EPFL. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Skip Nav Destination Letter from the Editor". pubs.aip.org. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Stevens, Kristin. "Rognlie Chergui". www.amercrystalassn.org. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "ERC 2022 Advanced Grants Results - Panel: PE" (PDF). European Research Council. 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Wang, Linda (17 August 2020). "ACS 2021 national award winners". C&EN Global Enterprise. 98 (31). American Chemical Society: 58–59. doi:10.1021/cen-09831-acsnews.
- ^ "Preise der Royal Society of Chemistry 2019". Angewandte Chemie. 131 (30): 10143–10144. 22 July 2019. Bibcode:2019AngCh.13110143.. doi:10.1002/anie.201906585. ISSN 0044-8249. S2CID 243567823.
- ^ "Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) 31st Session". Retrieved 16 December 2020.[dead link]
- ^ ""ERC 2015 Advanced Grants Results - Panel: PE"" (PDF). 2015.
- ^ Grunwaldt, J-D; Hagelstein, M; Rothe, J (May 2016). "The 16 th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS16)". Journal of Physics. Conference Series (712): 011001. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/712/1/011001 – via Bibcode:2016JPhCS.712a1001G. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/712/1/011001. ISSN 1742-6588.
- ^ "Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics". 7 August 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2021.[dead link]
- ^ "Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung". www.humboldt-foundation.de (in German). 16 December 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Kuwait Prize". www.kfas.org. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Rammal Award 2000–2008 laureates". EuroScience. 25 January 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2020.[dead link]
- ^ "EPS Fellows". European Physical Society. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics". www.aps.org. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Current Fellows". www.amercrystalassn.org. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "Members - European Academy of Sciences". 13 April 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
External links
edit- Majed Chergui publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Website of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy