13 Facts About Ursula Keller

Ursula Keller was born on 21 June 1959 and is a Swiss physicist.

Ursula Keller has been a tenured physics professor at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 1993.

Ursula Keller is highly cited and received many prestigious awards.

Ursula Keller developed the first method for generating ultra-fast light pulses known as semiconductor saturable-absorber mirrors, which have become a worldwide industry standard for cutting and welding in fields ranging from electronics and automotive industry to communications technology, medical diagnostics and surgery and has made myriad important contributions to the field of laser science since.

Ursula Keller has published more than 500 peer-reviewed journal papers with total citation of more than 56000 and h-index of 123.

Ursula Keller has patented several inventions in the field of ultra-fast lasers for industrial and medical applications.

Ursula Keller is the creator of the Attoclock, one of the most accurate time measurement devices in the world, which can record time intervals up to a few attoseconds, the billionth part of a billionth of a second.

From 2010 to 2022, Ursula Keller has been Director of the Swiss National Research Centre for Ultra-fast Molecular Sciences and Technologies, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

In 2018, Ursula Keller won the European Inventor Award in the "Lifetime Achievement ".

Ursula Keller engages for equal rights and better career opportunities of women in fields of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Ursula Keller was director of a research programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2010 till 2022, and was the founding president of the ETH Women Professors Forum.

In March 2019, in the context of the mobbing allegations against Marcella Carollo, Ursula Keller denounced a "lack of leadership, gender discrimination and corruption at ETH Zurich" and claimed that the reason for the proposed dismissal of her colleague was "not primarily the mobbing allegations, but her gender".

Two external investigations disproved the accusations that Ursula Keller made against ETH Zurich.