Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XVIII
暫譯: 超快強激光科學進展 XVIII

Kaoru Yamanouchi is currently Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo and Director of Institute of Attosecond Laser Facility, the University of Tokyo. His research fields are in physical chemistry, especially intense laser science, attosecond laser science, laser spectroscopy, chemical reaction dynamics, and quantum computing of atomic and molecular systems. In 1996, he launched a new research project to investigate how atoms, molecules, and clusters respond to an intense laser field. By developing new experimental techniques such as mass-resolved momentum imaging, pulsed gas electron diffraction, and coincidence momentum imaging, he has continued a successful exploration of the new research field of ultrafast intense laser science. Among his discoveries, ultrafast structural deformation of molecules and ultrafast hydrogen atom migration within hydrocarbon molecules are noteworthy.

Crina Cojocaru received her Ph.D. in Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, 2002. After two years as Marie Curie post-doc researcher at LPN-CNRS, Paris, France, she returned at UPC, first as Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Full Professor since 2022. Her research covers different aspects of optics and photonics and focuses to ultrashort laser pulse nonlinear optics in a variety of materials (photonic crystals, nanomaterials, metasurfaces). She leads the "Nonlinear Optics and Lasers" laboratory. For over 25 years, she made contributions to several subjects: 1) nonlinear effects in photonic crystals and modulated materials; 2) nonlinear effects at nanometric scale; 3) ultrashort laser pulse characterization; 4) active nonlinear devices; 5) diffraction control in photonic crystals; (5) laser induced ultrasound for non-destructive testing and 3D defect reconstruction.

Maciej Lewenstein graduated from Warsaw University in 1978. He joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he remained for 15 years and became a professor in 1993. He finished his Ph.D. in Essen in 1983 and habilitated in 1986 in Warsaw. He has spent several long-term visits at Universität Essen, at Harvard University with Roy J. Glauber, at Commisariat a l'Énergie Atomique in Saclay with Anne L'Huillier, and at Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at Boulder. He was in the faculty of CEA in Saclay (1995-1998) and of the Leibniz University Hannover (1998-2005). In 2005, he moved to Catalonia as a ICREA research professor to lead the quantum optics theory at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) in Castelldefels.

Gerhard G. Paulus studied physics at the University of Munich. While working at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, he received his Ph.D. in 1995 and the venia legendi in 2002. His thesis advisor was the late Herbert Walther. In 2003, he was appointed associate professor at Texas A&M University (USA) and in 2007 full professor at the University of Jena (Germany). He is a co-founder of the Helmholtz-Institute Jena and belongs to its board of directors. Paulus has authored a considerable number of highly cited works. In particular, he is known for the discovery of the plateau in above-threshold ionization spectra, the twin-effect of the high-harmonic plateau, and for his work on the detection, measurement, and application of the carrier-envelope phase of few-cycle pulses.

Chang Hee Nam, professor emeritus of GIST and honorary research fellow of IBS, received his Ph. D. in plasma physics from Princeton University in 1988. After working at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as a staff research physicist until 1989, he joined Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as a faculty member and became a full professor in 1998. He started the Coherent X-ray Research Center in 1999 for investigations of attosecond science. After moving to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in 2012, he launched the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS), a research center of Institute for Basic Science (IBS), for the exploration of strong field physics using femtosecond PW lasers, serving as the director until 2023. He is a fellow of American Physical Society and of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America).

Parinda Vasa, Professor at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, received Ph.D. in physics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, in 2006. In the same year, she received fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and later in 2008 the "Faculty for the future" Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation to conduct research at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany. Since 2011, she is a faculty member at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Her research interests include experimental exploration of energy transfer and dynamical processes in metal and semiconductor nanostructures. For her research work, she has received several awards and recognitions including Young Scientist Medal by Indian National Science Academy, Department of Science and Technology, India Young Career Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Science and Engineering Research Board (Government of India) POWER Fellowship.

Dimitris Charalambidis obtained his Doctoral Degree in Physics from the Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg (Germany) in 1988. From 1988 to 1991, he was a research associate at FORTH/IESL. He joined the University of Crete as an assistant professor in 1992, became associate professor in 1996, and full professor in 2004. He retired and was elected emeritus professor in 2020. He was an affiliated faculty member of FORTH/IESL until June 2024 and is currently affiliated faculty member of FORTH/IA and chief scientific advisor of ELI-ALPS. His scientific interests and activities are in AMO physics, atoms in strong electromagnetic fields, intense attosecond science and technology, laser-surface interactions, coherent XUV and x-ray sources, coherent phenomena, multi-XUV-photon processes, and XUV-pump-XUV-probe spectroscopy. He has published approximately 130 papers in refereed journals, receiving around 3000 non-self-citations and an h-factor of 33 (source web of science).

Kaoru Yamanouchi 目前是東京大學名譽教授及東京大學阿秒激光設施所的所長。他的研究領域包括物理化學，特別是強激光科學、阿秒激光科學、激光光譜學、化學反應動力學以及原子和分子系統的量子計算。1996年，他啟動了一個新的研究項目，研究原子、分子和簇如何對強激光場作出反應。通過開發質量解析動量成像、脈衝氣體電子衍射和重合動量成像等新實驗技術，他持續成功探索超快強激光科學這一新研究領域。在他的發現中，分子的超快結構變形和碳氫分子內氫原子的超快遷移尤為引人注目。

Crina Cojocaru 於2002年在巴塞隆納的加泰羅尼亞理工大學（UPC）獲得物理學博士學位。在法國巴黎的LPN-CNRS擔任兩年的Marie Curie博士後研究員後，她回到UPC，先後擔任講師、副教授，並自2022年起成為正教授。她的研究涵蓋光學和光子學的不同方面，專注於各種材料（光子晶體、納米材料、超表面）中的超短激光脈衝非線性光學。她領導「非線性光學與激光」實驗室。在過去25年中，她在幾個主題上做出了貢獻：1）光子晶體和調製材料中的非線性效應；2）納米尺度的非線性效應；3）超短激光脈衝的特徵化；4）主動非線性裝置；5）光子晶體中的衍射控制；6）激光誘導超聲波用於無損檢測和3D缺陷重建。

Maciej Lewenstein 於1978年畢業於華沙大學。他加入了華沙的波蘭科學院理論物理中心，在那裡工作了15年，並於1993年成為教授。他於1983年在埃森完成博士學位，並於1986年在華沙獲得博士後資格。他曾在埃森大學、哈佛大學與Roy J. Glauber、法國Saclay的原子能委員會與Anne L'Huillier、以及博爾德的聯合實驗室天體物理學研究所進行多次長期訪問。他曾在Saclay的CEA（1995-1998）和漢諾威的萊布尼茲大學（1998-2005）任教。2005年，他作為ICREA研究教授移居加泰羅尼亞，領導卡斯特爾德費爾斯的光子科學研究所（Institut de Ciències Fotòniques，ICFO）的量子光學理論。

Gerhard G. Paulus 在慕尼黑大學學習物理。在馬克斯·普朗克量子光學研究所工作期間，他於1995年獲得博士學位，並於2002年獲得教學資格。他的論文指導教授是已故的Herbert Walther。2003年，他被任命為美國德克薩斯農工大學的副教授，並於2007年成為德國耶拿大學的正教授。他是耶拿赫爾姆霍茲研究所的共同創始人，並屬於其董事會。Paulus 發表了大量被高度引用的作品，特別是他因發現超閾離子化光譜中的平臺、高次諧波平臺的雙重效應，以及對少週期脈衝的載波包絡相的檢測、測量和應用的研究而聞名。

Chang Hee Nam 是GIST的名譽教授及IBS的榮譽研究員，於1988年在普林斯頓大學獲得等離子體物理學博士學位。在普林斯頓等離子體物理實驗室擔任研究物理學家直到1989年後，他加入韓國科學技術院（KAIST）成為教職員，並於1998年成為正教授。他於1999年啟動了相干X射線研究中心，專注於阿秒科學的研究。2012年移至光州科技院後，他啟動了相對論激光科學中心（CoReLS），這是基礎科學研究所（IBS）的一個研究中心，專注於使用飛秒PW激光探索強場物理，並擔任主任直到2023年。他是美國物理學會和Optica（前身為美國光學學會）的會士。

Parinda Vasa 是印度孟買印度理工學院物理系的教授，於2006年在印度塔塔基礎研究所獲得物理學博士學位。同年，她獲得德國亞歷山大·馮·洪堡基金會的獎學金，並於2008年獲得施倫貝謝基金會的「未來的教職員」獎學金，在德國奧斯特基大學進行研究。自2011年以來，她一直是印度孟買印度理工學院的教職員。她的研究興趣包括金屬和半導體納米結構中能量轉移和動態過程的實驗探索。因其研究工作，她獲得了多項獎項和榮譽，包括印度國家科學院的青年科學家獎、印度科學技術部的納米科學與納米技術青年職業獎，以及印度政府的科學與工程研究委員會（SERB）POWER獎學金。

Dimitris Charalambidis 於1988年在德國弗賴堡的阿爾伯特·路德維希大學獲得物理學博士學位。1988年至1991年，他在FORTH/IESL擔任研究助理。1992年，他加入克里特大學擔任助理教授，於1996年晉升為副教授，並於2004年成為正教授。他於2020年退休並被選為名譽教授。他在FORTH/IESL擔任附屬教職直到2024年6月，目前是FORTH/IA的附屬教職及ELI-ALPS的首席科學顧問。他的科學興趣和活動包括AMO物理、強電磁場中的原子、強阿秒科學與技術、激光-表面相互作用、相干XUV和X射線源、相干現象、多XUV光子過程以及XUV-泵浦-XUV-探測光譜學。他在同行評審的期刊上發表了約130篇論文，獲得約3000次非自引文獻和33的h指數（資料來源：Web of Science）。