Clara Saraceno

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Clara Jody Saraceno (born 1983) is a laser scientist whose research involves the development of ultrafast lasers, a technology whose applications include ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and imaging biological processes at the molecular scale.[1] Born in Argentina and educated in France and Switzerland,[2] she works in Germany as a professor in the Faculty for Electrical Engineering of Ruhr University Bochum, where she holds the Chair of Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science.[3]

Education and career[edit]

Saraceno was born in 1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentine.[2][4] She studied optics and photonics at the Institut d'optique Graduate School in France, part of Paris-Saclay University, after which she worked in the US for Coherent, Inc. from 2007 to 2008. Returning to graduate study at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, she completed a PhD in 2012,[2] under the supervision of physicist Ursula Keller.[5]

After postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich and the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, she joined Ruhr University Bochum in Germany as an associate professor in 2016.[4]

Recognition[edit]

Saraceno's doctoral thesis won the 2013 Quantum Electronics and Optics Division Thesis Prize of the European Physical Society. She was a 2016 recipient of the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[2]

She became an Optica Ambassador in 2019,[4] and was named as a 2022 Optica Fellow, "for seminal contributions to ultrafast science and technology, as well as outstanding service to the optics community".[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kaliudis, Athanassios, Laser can solve the puzzle of water (Interview with Saraceno), Trumpf, retrieved 2023-07-22
  2. ^ a b c d "Award winner Professor Clara Saraceno", Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, Ruhr University Bochum, retrieved 2023-07-22
  3. ^ "Prof. Dr. Clara Saraceno, Head of Chair", Chair of Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science, Ruhr University Bochum, retrieved 2023-07-22
  4. ^ a b c "Clara Saraceno, Ruhr Universitat Bochum", Biographies & Memoirs, Optica, retrieved 2023-07-22
  5. ^ "Clara J. Saraceno", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, retrieved 2023-07-22
  6. ^ 2022 Fellows, Optica, retrieved 2023-07-22

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