Olga Kocharovskaya

Olga Kocharovskaya’s research is in the areas of quantum and nonlinear optics, laser physics, x-ray optics, attosecond physics, and quantum information science. Before joining the Texas A&M faculty in 1998, she held the position of leading research scientist at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an adjunct independent research scientist appointment at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

She received her Ph.D. from N.N. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia, in 1986 and a Doctor of Science Habilitation Degree from the Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1996. She has co-authored over 220 scientific papers. Her best-known works are on electromagnetically induced transparency, lasing without inversion, “stopped light,” and coherent control of resonant interaction between single X-ray photons and nuclear ensembles.

A Fellow of both the American Physical Society and Optica, she has received numerous awards, including the Willis Lamb Award for achievements in laser science and quantum electronics, the Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries from the American Physical Society, and the Herbert Walther Award in Quantum Optics, Atomic Physics, and international leadership from the German Physical Society (DPG) and Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America).