Anne L'Huillier - Biography#

Anne L'Huillier is a French/Swedish physicist working on the interaction between short and intense laser fields and atoms. Born in Paris in 1958, she defended her thesis on multiple multiphoton ionisation in 1986 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA). She obtained a permanent research position at CEA the same year. She was a postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg in 1986 and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1988. She was a visiting scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1993. In 1995 she became an associate professor at Lund University and in 1997 she was appointed professor of physics. She has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2004.