Gérard Mourou has spent a large part of his career in the United States, in particular at the University of Michigan, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Upon his return to France in 2005, he was head of the Applied optics laboratory (a UMR ENSTA ParisTech/CNRS/École polytechnique) until 2008. Gérard Mourou is a Knight of the legion of honour. His awards include the Frederic Ives medal (2016) from the Optical society of America and the Arthur L. Schawlow prize in laser science from the American Physical Society in 2018. Gérard Mourou received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, which crowns a career dedicated entirely to lasers and physics.
