Serge Haroche
President, Collège de France
Serge Haroche is a physicist, born in 1944 in Casablanca. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), receiving his doctorate from Paris VI University in 1971. After a post-doctoral visit to Stanford University (1972-73), he became full professor at Paris VI University in 1975, a position he held until 2001, when he was appointed Professor at Collège de France (in the chair of quantum physics). He has also been Maître de Conference at Ecole Polytechnique (1974-1984), visiting professor at Harvard (1981), part time professor at Yale University (1984-1993), member of Institut Universitaire de France (1991-2000) and chairman of the ENS Department of Physics (1994-2000). From 2012 to 2015, he has been President of the Collège de France. Serge Haroche has made important contributions to the field of quantum optics and quantum information science. He has received many prizes and awards, culminating with the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with David Wineland) for “ground breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”.
Work Experience
| 1975 | Professor, Paris VI University (until 2001) |
| 1981 | Visiting Professor, Harvard University (until 1981) |
| Sep 1982 | Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (until 2001) |
| 1984 | Part-time Professor, Yale University (until 1993) |
| 1991 | Member, Institut Universitaire de France (until 2001) |
| 1994 | Chairman, ENS Department of Physics (until 2000) |
| 2001 | Professor, Collège de France |
| 2012 | President, Collège de France (-present) |
Service
| 1983 | Member, French Physical Society (-present) |
| Member, European Physical Society (-present) | |
| 1988 | American Physical Society, Member in 1988, Fellow in 1990 |
| 1993 | Member, Academie des Sciences (-present) |
| 2009 | Member (Foreign associate), Brazilian Academy of Sciences (-present) |
| 2009 | Member, European Academy of Sciences (-present) |
| 2010 | Member (Foreign associate), National Academy of Sciences, USA (-present) |
| Oct 2015 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present) |
Awards
| 1971 | Prix Aimé Cotton of the French Physical Society |
| 1980 | Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University |
| 1983 | Grand Prix de Physique Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society |
| 1988 | Einstein Prize for Laser Science (Industrial and University Research Affiliates) |
| 1992 | Humboldt Award, Germany |
| 1993 | Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia |
| 1993 | EPS Travelling Lecturer |
| 2000 | Manne Siegbahn Lecture, Stockholm |
| 2001 | Tomassoni award of La Sapienza University, Rome |
| 2002 | Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society |
| 2002 | Quantum Communication Award of the International Organization for Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing and Tamagawa University, Japan |
| 2007 | Townes Award of the Optical Society of America |
| 2007 | Gra Cruz Ordem Nacional Do Merito Cientifico, Brazil |
| Jun 2009 | CNRS Gold Medal |
| 2009 | Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council |
| 2010 | Herbert Walther Award of the German Physical Society and Optical Society of America |
| Dec 2012 | Nobel Prize in Physics |
