Dr. Jon Marangos

Biography

Jon Marangos obtained his PhD from Imperial College in 1986. In 1990, he was appointed as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow and spent time as a Visiting Researcher at NIST in Gaithersburg, USA, working on high-resolution spectroscopy, and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, where he applied VUV sources to muon science. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Physics at Imperial College in 1995, became a Reader in 1999, and was made a Professor of Laser Physics in 2002. He has subsequently held the Lockyer Chair in Physics. Marangos has served as the Director of the Blackett Laboratory Extreme Light Consortium from 2002 to 2025 and was the Head of the Quantum Optics and Laser Science Group from 2003 to 2008. His major areas of research include the development of experimental methods for measurement processes at attosecond time-scales, non-linear optical processes for generating coherent soft X-ray and VUV radiation with applications in atomic and molecular physics, and attosecond pump-probe research using X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs). He has been involved in free electron laser science policy and has led the UK New Light Source Project from 2008 to 2010. He is currently serving as the Science Lead for the UK XFEL project and represents the UK at the European XFEL Council. He is a Fellow of Optica and the Institute of Physics.

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