Kärtner, Franz X.
Franz Kärtner leads the Ultrafast Optics and X-rays Group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY and is Professor of Physics at Universität Hamburg. He received his Diploma and PhD-degrees in Electrical Engineering from Technische Universität München and his Venia Legendi in Experimental Physics from Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule in Zürich (ETH-Zurich). He taught and carried out research at ETH-Zurich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to Hamburg. His research interests include classical and quantum noise, few-cycle and ultralow jitter femtosecond lasers and sub-cycle optical waveform synthesizers, precision timing distribution and integrated optics, compact electron and x-ray sources, terahertz generation and acceleration and attosecond science. He also co-founded Cycle GmbH, a Hamburg-based company, that manufactures precision timing and frequency distribution systems for large-scale scientific infrastructures and industry. He is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE and was honored with the 2022 IEEE Laser Instrumentation Award and the UNIPRENEURS Award in 2023.
Location: 99, room O3.097, CFEL at DESY, Hamburg