Claire Gmachl

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Claire Gmachl (* 1967 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian physicist who researches quantum cascade lasers , among other things . Since 2007 she has been a full professor at Princeton University in New Jersey (USA).

Life

Claire Gmachl completed a degree in physics at the University of Innsbruck . She wrote her diploma thesis in 1991 on the subject of nanostructuring of semiconductor surfaces using electron beam lithography . In 1996 she did her doctorate sub auspiciis at the Technical University of Vienna , the subject of the dissertation was frequency-tunable, surface-emitting semiconductor laser diodes with a vertical resonator .

From 1992 to 1994 she worked at the Technical University of Munich , and from 1995 to 1996 she was a university assistant at the Technical University of Vienna. As part of a PostDoctoral Fellowship, she worked from 1996 to 2003 at Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories in New Jersey (USA). She then moved to Princeton University , also located in New Jersey , where she taught as an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 2003 to 2007. Since 2007 she has been a full professor in Princeton and director of the Engineering Research Center MIRTHE ( Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the environment ).

Awards

In 1995 she received the Christian Doppler Prize of the State of Salzburg for her scientific work . In 2002, she was named an Innovator Under 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review magazine . In 2004 she was named one of ten brilliant scientists under 40 by the US science magazine Popular Science . In 2005 she was a MacArthur Fellow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Union catalog: Nanostructuring of semiconductor surfaces by means of electron beam lithography . Diploma thesis 1991, accessed on May 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ Union catalog: Frequency-adjustable, surface-emitting semiconductor laser diodes with vertical resonator . Dissertation 1996, accessed May 3, 2015.
  3. ^ A b c MacArthur Fellows Program - Class of 2005 - Claire Gmachl - Laser Engineer . Article dated September 1, 2005, accessed May 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c Vienna University of Technology: Claire Gmachl . Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ Innovator Under 35: Claire Gmachl, 34 - MIT Technology Review . Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  6. ↑ derStandard.at - "Brilliant and under 40": Austrian physicist honored in USA . APA notification dated December 17, 2004, accessed May 3, 2015.
  7. ↑ derStandard.at - USA: Award for Austrian physicist . APA notification of January 3, 2005, accessed on May 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gmachl, Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gmachl, Claire F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg