Paul S. Julienne

After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Chemical Physics, I was a NAS-NRC Posdoctoral Fellow at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), working with Dr. Frederick H. Mies in theoretical molecular physics. After a short term as a staff physicist with the Plasma Physics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, I returned to NBS (later renamed NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology) as a research scientist in the Quantum Chemistry Group of the Physical Chemistry Division. Between 1995 and 2003, I was the group leader of the Quantum Processes Group of the Atomic Physics Division and became a NIST Fellow (a senior research scientist) in 2003. I was one of the original fellows of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of NIST and the University of Maryland, founded in 2007. After retirement from NIST in 2013, I have been an Emeritus Fellow of the JQI. Many collaborations mark my career: as of 2020, I have had 382 co-authors on 264 peer-reviewed papers from 138 different institutions or universities in 20 different countries from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 2004, I received the Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, and in 2015, the William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America.