Shaul Mukamel

Shaul Mukamel, a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, had received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Tel Aviv University and held faculty positions at Rice University, the Weizmann Institute, and the University of Rochester. His research interests focus on the design of novel ultrafast multidimensional-coherent-optical spectroscopies for probing and controlling electronic and vibrational molecular dynamics in the condensed phase. He is the author of over 900 publications and the textbook “Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy (1995). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. His recent awards include the Ahmed Zewail ACS Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology (2015), the Coblentz Society ABB Sponsored Bomem-Michelson Award (2016) and the OSA William F. Meggers Award (2017).