Dr. Cristina Afonso
Physical sciences
Physical sciences
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Generation and application of attosecond light pulses, High-order Harmonic Generation, Atoms in strong laser fields, Photoionization
Two advanced grants from the European Research Council (2008, 2014)
Emmy Noether distinction from the European Physical Society 2014
Carl Zeiss Research Award, 2013
Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics from the European Academy of Sciences, 2013
Docteur Honoris Causa of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2013
L’Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women In Science, 2011
Julius Springer prize for Applied Physics, 2003
Göran Gustafson prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics), 1998
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1998
Prix Aimé Cotton of the French Physical Society, 1990
English, French, Swedish
Member of the Optical Society of America and Sweden
Member of the French, American and Swedish Physical Societies
Elected international member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Elected international member of the US National Academy of Sciences
Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, 2012
Elected member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, 2006
Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics class), 2004
Member of the board of the Lund Laser Center, since 2012
Member of the board of the MAX IV laboratory, since 2010
Member of the Nobel committee for Physics, 2007 – 2015
Member of the Board of the Swedish Physical Society, 2004 – 2006
Editor of the European Physical Journal D, 2001 – 2003
Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review A, 1994 – 1996
Member of the Council of the French Physical Society, 1991 – 1993
Coordinator of a European HRM Marie Curie Early Stage Training site: “Emerging X-ray science and technology: Combining Laser and Accelerator Physics" (MAXLAS), 2006 – 2010
Coordinator of a European IHP network “Generation and Characterisation of Attosecond Pulses in Strong Laser-Atom Interactions: A step towards Attophysics” (ATTO), 2000 – 2003
Coordinator of a European HCM network, "Harmonic Generation in Intense Laser Fields", 1993 – 1995
Two children Oscar, born 1999 and Victor, born 2000
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