Serge Haroche is a specialist in atomic physics and quantum optics, Professor Emeritus of the Collège de France (holder of the Quantum Physics Chair 2001-2015) and Honorary Administrator of the Collège de France (2012-2015). After completing his thesis on the dressed atom, he developed new laser spectroscopy methods based on the study of quantum beats and superradiance, before turning his attention to Rydberg atoms.
Winner of the CNRS Gold Medal (2009) and the Nobel Prize in Physics (2012), Serge Haroche headed the electrodynamics of simple systems group at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory of the ENS Physics Department.
