Russian Academy elects Ducloy Foreign Member
Martial Ducloy has been elected Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in recognition of both his contributions to the field of coherent optics, laser physics and laser spectroscopy, and his long-lasting scientific collaboration with Russian institutes in the fields of Laser Metrology, and Nonlinear and Quantum Optics.
Ducloy – the current chair of the European Physical Society [EPS] Forum Physics and Society – will join such prestigious company as Claude Cohen-Tannoudji; Murray Gell-Mann; Jules Hoffman, the recent recipient of a Nobel Prize in Medicine; Jean-Marie Lehn; Carlo Rubbia; and the late Georges Charpak.
Ducloy, currently Emeritus Research Director of Laser Physics Laboratory at the Université Paris-Nord, has worked at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interested spans laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing processes, phase conjugation and the optical response of atomic systems confined near material and nano surfaces.
In addition, Ducloy was a former president of both the EPS and the French Physical Society; chair of the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division; a cofounder of both the CLEO-Europe conference series and the EPS Quantum Electronics Prize; and the initiator of the World Year of Physics in 2005.
