Philip Howard Bucksbaum

Position: Otto Laporte Professor of Physics, University of Michigan;  Director of FOCUS, the  NSF Center for the Advancement of Frontiers in Optical Coherent Ultrafast Science; Editor of VJUltrafast, the APS Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.

Previous career and education:

• 9/90-8/98 Professor of Physics, University of Michigan.
• 11/82-8/90 Principal Investigator Member of Technical Staff, Physics Research Division, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
• 1/89-8/90 Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
• 8/80-11/82 Post-doctoral research at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ 07733, and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, CA 94720.
• Ph.D. (1980) and M.A. (1978) in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
• A.B. (1975) magna cum laude in Physics, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Member of BESAC, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee; member of CAMOS, the NRC Committee on AMO Science; Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters for the Laser Science Division; member of the Physics Today Advisory Committee; Chairman, APS Nominating Committee.

I am an atomic physicist. My main research interest is fundamental light-matter interactions, and especially the control of quantum systems using ultrafast laser fields. I develop new sources of ultrafast laser light in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet,  and x-ray regions of the light spectrum.