Prof. Mikhael Yu. Ivanov has been appointed per 1.1.2012 as Department head A1 of the MBI and as a W3-S-Professor of Theoretical Optics at the Humboldt University. In the former role he is the successor of Prof. Martin Weinelt, who accepted a professorship at the Freie Universität Berlin last year.
Misha Ivanov (born 1964) is regarded world-wide as one of the leading theoreticians in the emerging field of ultrafast intense laser science, where novel methods are developed to probe light-matter interactions down to the attosecond time-scale. He has made major contributions to the emergence of attosecond science, and co-authored landmark papers on – among other things - the generation of attosecond pulses, the control of attosecond electron dynamics in strong field ionization, and the observation of attosecond time-scale electron dynamics in molecular systems.
Misha Ivanov graduated in 1987 from Moscow State University and obtained his Phd at the General Physics Institute in Moscow in 1989, which he subsequently joined as a postdoctoral fellow and staff scientist. From 1992 to 2008 he was at the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa, Canada, where he established a vibrant research program as Principal Research Officer & Head of the Theory and Computation Group. In 2008, he left NRC and accepted a chair in Physics at Imperial College London.
Over the years Misha Ivanov has received numerous prizes and awards for his research, including the Rutherford medal in Physics from the Royal Society of Canada (2003) and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2004). Since 2010 Misha is the coordinator of Marie Curie Initial Training Network “CORINF” (“Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Intense Light Fields”).
MBI is proud that with Misha Ivanov an outstanding scientist has joined the institute to lead the newly established A1 Theory Department, and – together with Humboldt University - looks forward to working together closely with Misha on the further development of attosecond science and his numerous other research interests.
