CONSOLIDATED RESEARCH UNIT 167

Luis Roso

Director of the Centro de Láseres Pulsados. Direction

He has worked continuously on intense femtosecond lasers and their interaction with matter since his Visiting Scholar stay at the University of Rochester (United States) in 1985 and 1986. There he coincided with the beginning of the ‘Chirped Pulse Amplification’ or CPA technology, deserving of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, which has allowed increasing the powers of laser systems, first reaching terawatt and now petawatt. Luis Roso’s scientific career has evolved towards higher intensities and plasma experts have joined the working group to guarantee the necessary know-how. Luis Roso is, since 1991, Professor of University at the University of Salamanca, and has been awarded research six-year terms continuously since 1979.