Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1989. He was a Royal Society of London Research Fellow at St Andrews during 1993-2001 and joined ICFO as ICREA Professor in 2003. He has >620 peer-reviewed publications including 230 journal papers (5 invited), 120 invited talks, 18 monographs and reviews, and has edited 2 books. He has served as advisory and topical editor of Optics Letters, guest editor of J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, associate editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, associate editor of Optica, and on advisory board and expert evaluation panel of various scientific councils including ERC Advanced Grants (2014-2020). He is a founder and director, and chief scientist of Radiantis, a Fellow of Optica and SPIE, recipient of two Royal Society Merit Awards (UK: 1995, 1999), Innova Prize for technology transfer and commercial enterprise (Spain: 2004), Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis (Germany: 2010), and David Richardson Medal of Optica (USA: 2021).

His research is focused on the development of novel technologies for the generation and manipulation of coherent light in new spectral and temporal domains inaccessible to conventional lasers. The main goal is the exploitation of nonlinear optics, in particular optical parametric processes, to produce laser radiation with unique spectral and temporal flexibility, and applications of this technology to biomedicine, frequency synthesis, spectroscopy, optical microscopy and imaging. Another important focus of his research is commercial enterprise and technology transfer to the industrial sector, where he has successfully transformed his reserach results into cutting-edge photonic products through Radiantis, the first spin-off company from ICFO he founded in Barcelona in 2005. Today, Radiantis is a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art frequency conversion technology in the world, and a certified supplier to one of the major laser companies in the world, Newport/Spectra-Physics (USA).