Hanieh Fattahi
| Hanieh Fattahi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 September 1981 Tehran, Iran |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | German |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Zanjan (BSc) Sharif University of Technology (MSc) LMU Munich / MPQ (PhD) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Femtosecond fieldoscopy Third-generation femtosecond technology Solar pumped lasers |
| 🏅 Awards | Helmholtz Prize (2026) ERC Consolidator Grant (2024) Minerva Fast-Track Fellowship (2017) |
| 🌐 Website | fieldoscopy.de |
Hanieh Fattahi is an Iranian-born German physicist and Independent Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen, Germany, where she heads the Femtosecond Fieldoscopy research group. Fattahi was senior author of one of the two teams which were jointly awarded the Helmholtz Prize in 2026 for the development of femtosecond fieldoscopy..[1] and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2024.
Early life and education
Fattahi was born on 16 September 1981 in Tehran, Iran. She received her BSc in physics from the University of Zanjan, Iran, in 2005, followed by an MSc in physics from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran in 2007.
She moved to Germany in 2008 to pursue doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich under the supervision of Ferenc Krausz (later the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Physics). She completed her PhD in physics in 2015 with the highest distinction summa cum laude, on the development of third-generation femtosecond technology and generation of high-energy light transients[2].
Scientific career
After her PhD, Fattahi remained at MPQ as a postdoctoral scientist in the group of Ferenc Krausz from 2015 to 2017. In 2017 she was awarded a Minerva Fast-Track Fellowship of the Max Planck Society, allowing her to establish her own research line at MPQ as a Minerva Group Leader (2017–2019)[3].
During her time as Minerva Group Leader, Fattahi held two visiting scientist appointments at the University of Oxford (2017–2018) in the group of Prof. Philipp Kukura, and at Harvard University (2019–2020) in the group of the chemist Prof. Sunney Xie. These appointments shifted her work towards life-science applications of ultrafast optical methods.
In 2020 Fattahi was appointed Independent Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, where she founded the Femtosecond Fieldoscopy research group[4]. She is concurrently a Fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics[5], and a Member of the Max Planck Quantum Alliance[6].
Research
Fattahi's research lies at the intersection of ultrafast optics, attosecond science, sustainable photonics, and biophotonics.
Femtosecond fieldoscopy
Fattahi coined the term femtosecond fieldoscopy, referring to a spectroscopy technique that samples the electromagnetic field of a few-cycle excitation pulse after interaction with a sample, with attosecond temporal precision in ambient air. The first proof-of-principle demonstration of femtosecond fieldoscopy in liquids was published as the cover story of Nature Photonics in 2024[7]. Subsequent extensions include ultrafast nonlinear dynamics of indium tin oxide nanocrystals (Advanced Science, 2025, cover story)[8].
Third-generation femtosecond technology
Earlier in her career, Fattahi contributed to the development of high-energy, light-transient from Yb:YAG thin-disk amplifiers, an approach referred to as the "third generation" of femtosecond laser technology [9] [10] [11]
Solar-pumped lasers and quantum photonics
Her group has reported feasibility studies of solar-pumped Yb:YAG and Nd:YAG lasers and theoretical work on radiation-balanced solar lasers[12] and on the generation of quantum entanglement from sunlight (with collaborators including Robert W. Boyd)[13]. Within the European Innovation Council Pathfinder project APACE (Towards a bio-mimetic sunlight-pumped laser based on photosynthetic antenna complexes), Fattahi serves as co-Principal Investigator and Portfolio Innovation Manager[14].
Awards and honours
- 2026 – Shared the Helmholtz Prize for the development of femtosecond fieldoscopy[15]
- 2024 – European Research Council Consolidator Grant, "Beyond the Visible"[16]
- 2024 – European Innovation Council Pathfinder Challenge, co-Principal Investigator and Portfolio Innovation Manager (APACE project)
- 2023 – Nominated for "The Photonics 100: The industry's most innovative people"[17]
- 2020 – Max Planck Research Grant, "Femtosecond Molecular Fieldoscopy"
- 2018–2023 – Member of the Elisabeth-Schiemann Kolleg, Max Planck Society
- 2017 – Minerva Fast-Track Fellowship, Max Planck Society
- 2016 – Fellow of the Max Planck Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, Ottawa, Canada
References
- ↑ "Accuracy Record set: Research Group of Dr. Hanieh Fattahi awarded Helmholtz Prize". mpl.mpg.de. 6 February 2026.
- ↑ Fattahi, Hanieh (15 January 2015). Third-generation femtosecond technology (Thesis) (in Deutsch). Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
- ↑ "Dr. Hanieh Fattahi on Minerva Fast Track Programme". www.mpq.mpg.de.
- ↑ Template, Graphodata. "Femtosecond Fieldoscopy". mpl.mpg.de.
- ↑ "People at the Max Planck School of Photonics". photonics.maxplanckschools.org.
- ↑ "Max Planck Quantum Alliance – Research on Quantum Science and Technology in the Max Planck Society".
- ↑ Srivastava, Anchit; Herbst, Andreas; Bidhendi, Mahdi M.; Kieker, Max; Tani, Francesco; Fattahi, Hanieh (2024). "Near-petahertz fieldoscopy of liquid". Nature Photonics. 18 (12): 1320–1326. arXiv:2310.20512. Bibcode:2024NaPho..18.1320S. doi:10.1038/s41566-024-01548-2.
- ↑ Herbst, Andreas; Srivastava, Anchit; Scheffter, Kilian; Jun, Soyeon; Gommel, Steffen; Rebecchi, Luca; Kuriyil, Sidharth; Rubino, Andrea; Petrini, Nicolò; Kriegel, Ilka; Fattahi, Hanieh (2026). "Ultrafast nonlinear dynamics of indium tin oxide nanocrystals probed via fieldoscopy". Advanced Science. 13 (10): e16818. Bibcode:2026AdvSc..1316818H. doi:10.1002/advs.202516818. PMC 12915141 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 41195574 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Fattahi, Hanieh (2014). "Third-generation femtosecond technology". Optica. 1 (1): 45–63. Bibcode:2014Optic...1...45F. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.1.000045.
- ↑ Alismail, Ayman; Wang, Haochuan; Barbiero, Gaia; Altwaijry, Najd; Hussain, Syed Ali; Pervak, Volodymyr; Schweinberger, Wolfgang; Azzeer, Abdallah M.; Krausz, Ferenc; Fattahi, Hanieh (2020). "Multi-octave, CEP-stable source for high-energy field synthesis". Science Advances. 6 (7): eaax3408. arXiv:1911.00545. Bibcode:2020SciA....6.3408A. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax3408. PMC 7021495 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32110723 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Fattahi, Hanieh (2016). "Sub-cycle light transients for attosecond, X-ray, four-dimensional imaging". Contemporary Physics. 57 (4): 580–595. Bibcode:2016ConPh..57..580F. doi:10.1080/00107514.2016.1231870.
- ↑ Küblböck, Michael; Sahil, Mohammad; Brar, Jasvinder; Fattahi, Hanieh (2026). "Solar-pumped Radiation-balanced Laser". arXiv:2601.00649 [physics.optics].
- ↑ Li, Cheng; Brar, Jasvinder; Küblböck, Michael; Upham, Jeremy; Fattahi, Hanieh; Boyd, Robert W. (2026). "Generating quantum entanglement from sunlight". arXiv:2602.15655.
- ↑ "APACE biolaser".
- ↑ "Helmholtz Prize 2026 awarded for femtosecond fieldoscopy".
- ↑ "Hanieh Fattahi receives ERC Consolidator Grant to advance 'Label-free microscopy' research". mpl.mpg.de. 9 December 2024.
- ↑ "Hanieh Fattahi | Electro Optics". www.electrooptics.com.
External links
- Femtosecond Fieldoscopy group website
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
- Entry at ORCID
- "Interview with MPSP-Fellow Dr. Hanieh Fattahi"
- "Meet the Physicist" video portrait
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