Henry C. Kapteyn

Dr. Henry C. Kapteyn has been a Professor at the Department of Physics, and a Fellow of JILA, at the University of Colorado since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Physics at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, in the field of x-ray and short-wavelength laser physics. His work at WSU, done in collaboration with Prof. Margaret Murnane, resulted in the development of a new generation of lasers which make it straightforward to produce light pulse of less than ten femtoseconds duration. At Michigan, he continued this research in demonstrating novel techniques for generation short-duration light pulses in the deep-ultraviolet and soft x-ray regions of the spectrum. He currently is applying this technology for studies of dynamic processes in chemical and material systems. Prof. Kapteyn is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1992, a Sloan Foundation fellowship, and the Optical Society of America's 1993 Adolph Lomb Medal. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the American Physical Society and the SPIE.