[2] He received his BSc in electrical engineering at the Middle East Technical University, and his Ph.D. from Stanford for his work on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Lasers without Inversion.

In 1993, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of California, Santa Barbara.

Since 2002, he has been working at ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland, where he is heading the research group on Quantum Photonics.

They are particularly interested in understanding physical properties that distinguish these solid-state systems from their atomic counterparts.

[4] He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute.