Prof. Dr. Colin J. R. Sheppard

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOptics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas,Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
KeywordsFocussing, diffraction, vector field, confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy

Current contact address

CountryItaly
CityGenova
InstitutionItalian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gerd LeuchsPhysikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Prof. Dr. Rainer HeintzmannInstitut für Physikalische Chemie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2005

Programme(s)

2003Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Sheppard is an optical scientist whose publications cover an unusual breadth and reveal a remarkable depth. He invented two photon microscopy and published pioneering papers on high resolution confocal microscopy. A specialty is the modelling of light propagation including the vectorial properties of the field and ultrafast pulses. During his stay at Erlangen Professor Sheppard is going to study polarization effects in nanooptics.