Tobias Kippenberg

Tobias J. Kippenberg is a Full Professor of Physics at EPFL where he leads the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurement. After completing his education at RWTH Aachen and Caltech, he led an Independent Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics from 2005-2009 before joining EPFL. His groundbreaking research includes the discovery of chip-scale Kerr frequency comb generation and significant contributions to cavity optomechanics. His achievements have earned him numerous prestigious awards, including the Helmholtz Prize for Metrology (2009), the EPS Fresnel Prize (2009), the EFTF Young Investigator Award (2010), the ICO Prize (2013), the Swiss Latsis Prize (2014), and the ZEISS Research Award (2018)