Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh received his PhD from St Andrews, UK, in 1989. He was a Royal Society Research Fellow from 1993 to 2001, and appointed ICREA Professor at ICFO in 2003. He has over 600 publications, including 206 journal papers, 105 invited talks, 18 invited book chapters, reviews, invited journal papers, and edited 2 books. He has served as topical editor of Optics Letters, guest editor of J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, associate editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, associate editor of Optica, on Joint Council on Quantum Electronics (USA), International Council on Quantum Electronics, and on advisory board and expert evaluation panel of several scientific councils, including ERC Advanced Grants. He is the founder and chief scientist of Radiantis, Fellow of OSA and SPIE, recipient of the Royal Society Merit Award, UK (1995, 1999), Innova Prize, Spain (2004), and Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize, Germany (2010).

Research interests

His research is focused on the development of new technologies for generation and manipulation of coherent light in new spectral and temporal domains which are inaccessible to conventional lasers. The main goal is the exploitation of nonlinear optics, in particular optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), to produce laser radiation with unique spectral and temporal flexibility from UV to deep-IR, and applications of this technology to biomedicine, optical microscopy, spectroscopy, and imaging. Another important focus of his research is commercial enterprise and technology transfer to the industrial sector, where he has successfully transformed research results from his laboratory at ICFO into cutting-edge photonic products through the creation of the spin-off company, Radiantis, in Barcelona, in 2005. Radiantis is now a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art OPO systems in the world, and a certified supplier to Newport/Spectra-Physics (USA).