Ursula Keller
Swiss physicist
Biography
Ursula Keller (born 21 June 1959) is a Swiss physicist. She has been a tenured physics professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 1993. A pioneer in ultrafast science and technology, she is known for inventing the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), enabling passive mode-locking of lasers and revolutionizing ultrafast laser applications in science and industry. Keller led the Swiss NCCR MUST program in ultrafast science (2010–2022), co-founded several companies, including Time-Bandwidth Products (now part of Lumentum ) and K2 Photonics, and published a graduate textbook "Ultrafast Laser Physics" with Springer Verlag. She is highly cited and received many prestigious awards. From 2012-2016 she was the founding president of the Women Professors Forum at ETH Zurich.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- ETH Zurich
- Bell Labs Holmdel Complex
- Stanford University
- Heriot-Watt University
Awards & honours (11)
- Charles Hard Townes Award
- Zeiss Research Award
- Philip Morris Research Prize
- Weizmann Women & Science Award
- IEEE Photonics Award
- European Inventor Award
- IEEE Fellow
- Edison Medal
- Frederic Ives Medal
- SPIE Gold Medal
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Quick answers about Ursula Keller
- How old is Ursula Keller?
- Ursula Keller is 67 years old (born June 21, 1959).
- When is Ursula Keller's birthday?
- Ursula Keller was born on June 21, 1959.
- Where was Ursula Keller born?
- Ursula Keller was born in Zug.
- What is Ursula Keller's zodiac sign?
- Ursula Keller's zodiac sign is Cancer.
- What is Ursula Keller's nationality?
- Ursula Keller is a citizen of Switzerland.
- What does Ursula Keller do?
- Ursula Keller is known as physicist, inventor, entrepreneur, university teacher.
