Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Biography

Professor Dudovich works at the forefront of laser physics and optics. She investigates ultrafast interactions between light and matter on an attosecond timescale. She earned a BSc in physics and computer science from Tel Aviv University in 1996, and an MSc and PhD in physics from the Weizmann Institute in 1999 and 2004, respectively. In 2004, she received the Rothschild Fellowship for postdoctoral studies and joined Professor Paul Corkum’s research group. In 2007, she joined the Weizmann Institute of Science and established the first research group for attosecond science in Israel.  

Professor Dudovich has received  a number of prestigious fellowships and awards, including: the IPS Prize for Young Physicist (2012), the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize (2012), the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research (2013), and the Weizmann Award (2021). From the European Research Council (ERC), she received an ERC Starting Investigator grant (2015) and a Consolidator grant (2019). Professor Dudovich was elected to the Young Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and in 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). 

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Oct 13

Schawlow-Townes Symposium on Photonics 2022

Sylvain Charbonneau, Vice-President, Research and Innovation at the University of Ottawa, and Geneviève Tanguay, Vice-President, Emerging Technologies…