Mostafa El-Sayed
Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Biography
B.Sc., Ain Shams U. Cairo, Egypt; Ph.D., Florida State University; Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology; Faculty member UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (1961-1994); Julius Brown Chair and Regents’ Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (1994-present). He received US National Medal of Science in Chemistry from the President of the United States (2008) and the Medal of the Egyptian Republic of the First Class from the President of Egypt (2009). He was nominated by the US President to the US National Medal of Science Selection Committee in 2014, served a two-year term, and has been reappointed for a second term. Professor El-Sayed is the 2016 recipient of the American Chemical Society Priestley Medal. Professor El-Sayed is an Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Associate Member of Third World Academy of Sciences; Inaugural Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He received the King Faisal International Prize in the Sciences (Chemistry) and has received numerous national awards. In 2007 he was awarded Georgia Tech’s highest award, the Class of 1943 Distinguished Professor.
Research Interest
Professor El-Sayed's research group is housed in the Laser Dynamics Laboratory (LDL).LDL houses the most recent lasers and laser spectroscopic equipment for time-resolved studies in the femto-to-millisecond time scale. The LDL site has a more expanded description of the research, the group and a full list of the over 600 publications