2019 EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of Light
The 2019 Prize for Research into the Science of Light is awarded to Professor Javier García de Abajo, ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain for “pioneering contributions to the understanding of the behaviour of light at the nanoscale, in particular in plasmons and in light interactions with free electrons“.
The 4th Prize for Research into the Science of Light was awarded on behalf of the European Physical Society through its Quantum Electronics & Optics Division (QEOD) during Nanometa 2019, held in Seefeld, Austria, from 3-6 January 2019. During the session “Light Prize Talk and Awards Ceremony” on 4 January, Professor Javier García de Abajo gave an invited talk on “Control of Light at the Atomic Scale: Fundamentals and Applications.”
The prize is awarded every 2 years in recognition of recent work by one or more individuals (no more than three) for scientific excellence in the area of electromagnetic science in its broadest sense, across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves.
Javier García de Abajo received his PhD from the University of the Basque Country in 1993 and then visited Berkeley National Lab for three years. He was a Research Professor at the Spanish CSIC and in 2013 moved to ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (Barcelona) as an ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, and he has co-authored over 300 articles on different aspects of nanophotonics, atomic physics, surface science, and electron microscope spectroscopies. See http://www.nanophotonics.es for more details
