Amelle Zair

Amelle is the head of Attosecond Quantum Physics Lab at King's College London and She lead the attosecond physics Group. She obtained her MSc in laser-matter interaction from Orsay University & Ecole Polytechnique. She was awarded her PhD degree in 2006 from Bordeaux University, obtained with the highest distinction. She investigated the 'Production and characterization of attosecond pulses' exploring the ellipticity gating technique for isolated attosecond pulse production. she undertook postdoctoral studies at ETH Zurich, USAL and Imperial College London.
In 2011, she was awarded both an EPSRC-CAF and URF fellowships and since a choice needed to be made, she accepted the EPSRC-CAF and build her first group at Imperial College London.
In 2017, she was offered a position at King's College London to lead the Attosecond Physics group and to lecture advanced photonics to UnderGrad and PostGrad students.

'In my group we value talent from a diverse point of view as we believe it is a strength.'
In the Physics Department at King's College London, she was chair of Diversity and equality departmental committee from 2019 to 2021 during which the department was awarded the JUNO champion from IOP (2018-2023) and Athena Swan SILVER award winner (2019-2024).

She is a committee member of:
The Royal Society NIF https://royalsociety.org/people/amelle-zair-13634/ 2018-2024.
EPSRC prioritization panels for Physical Sciences since 2012
UK-XFEL sciences team member since 2020
EU-XFEL SQS reviewer 2022
ELI-ERIC advisor committee member since 2022
COST ACTION Europe “Attosecond chemistry” CA18222 management committee (UK representative)
Swedish research council scientific reviewer.
Canadian research council (NRC) scientific reviewer.
French research council (ANR) scientific reviewer.

She was a former committee member:
Laser Lab IV Europe networking panel member.
Scientific advisor for HRR ATTO ELI-ALPs 2017-2019.

For more details see:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-5453.