Prof. Ulf Leonhardt
Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
Contact:
Email: ulf.leonhardt@weizmann.ac.il
Personal Webpage: coming soon
Phone: 08-9346337
Prof. Ulf Leonhardt in the I-CORE group research:
I work on connections between optics and quantum optics with ideas from general relativity – on the geometry of light. Applications include experimental analogues of the event horizon, invisibility cloaking, perfect imaging and Casimir forces.
Postdocs:
David Bermudez
William Simpson
Graduate Students:
Jonathan Drori
Shamir Rosen ( jointly with Prof. Yaron Silberberg)
Awards:
Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society 1994
Joachim Tiburtius Award of the Berlin Senate 1994
Fellow of the Institute of Physics 2002
Scientific American 50 Award 2006
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2008
Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society 2008
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2009
Theo Murphy Blue Skies Award of the Royal Society 2009
Thousand Talents Award of China 2012
Publications:
U. Leonhardt, Optical Conformal Mapping, Science 312, 1777-1780 (2006) [mentioned by Science in the top ten research insights of the decade 2000-2010].
U. Leonhardt and T. G. Philbin, General Relativity in Electrical Engineering, New J. Phys. 8, 247 (2006).