Majed Chergui
Majed Chergui (born 1956 in Casablanca) is a Swiss and French physicist specialized in ultrafast dynamics of light-induced processes. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), head of the Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences, and founding director of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS). Career Chergui was born in Casablanca (Morocco), and grew up in Algeria and Lebanon. He studied physics and mathematics at the Chelsea College at University of London and received his bachelor's degree in 1977. In 1978, he received a master's degree in atomic and molecular physics from Paris-Sud University, Orsay. He then joined Jacques Bauche at the same university as a PhD student and graduated in 1981. In 1986, he received a Doctorat d'État (habilitation) under supervision of Venkataraman Chandrasekharan at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. In 1987, he joined the group of Nikolaus Schwentner as a Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the Free University of Berlin. Three years later he became a senior research assistant at the same institute. In 1993 he was appointed as full professor of experimental condensed matter physics at the University of Lausanne, where