Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962[2]) is a Hungaro-Austrian physicist working in attosecond science.
He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.
His research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons' motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics.
[2] In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
[3] In 2003 he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching,[5] and in 2004 became chair of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.