{"id":43953,"date":"2025-02-18T12:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=43953"},"modified":"2025-03-22T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:52:48","slug":"dr-ferenc-krausz-receives-2024-semmelweis-budapest-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2025\/02\/dr-ferenc-krausz-receives-2024-semmelweis-budapest-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ferenc Krausz receives 2024 Semmelweis Budapest Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Ferenc Krausz, CEO and Scientific Director of the Center for Molecular Fingerprinting (CMF), received the Semmelweis Budapest Award, the university\u2019s most prestigious international scientific prize. At the event held in the Semmelweis Salon, Dr. Ferenc Krausz delivered a scientific talk in English entitled \u201cLaser physics for shaping the future of medicine,\u201d in which he gave an insight into the potential of using laser pulses in medicine. CMF and Semmelweis University conduct joint research in data science, so they established the John von Neumann Institute for Data Science in December last year.<\/div>\n

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At the ceremony, attended by the university\u2019s leadership, members of the Senate, students, and the press, Rector Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely presented the 2024 Semmelweis Budapest Award to Dr. Ferenc Krausz. It was at its meeting in October last year that the Senate decided to bestow the prestigious award on the Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian physicist. In his welcome speech, Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely stressed that it was a great honor for him and made him very proud to be able to present the Semmelweis Budapest Award to a Hungarian Nobel Prize winner for the second time<\/a> in two years.<\/p>\n

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Ferenc Krausz has always been driven to ask the right questions, find the answers, and put his discoveries at the service of humanity. For him, the most important thing about competition and winning, he said, is to be able to overcome yourself, to get the best out of yourself. He has a special ability to bring people together for an important cause, whether it is a scientific goal or helping those in need. – Dr. B\u00e9la Merkely<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>The rector added that Dr. Ferenc Krausz had donated the amount received for his Nobel Prize to Science4People, a charitable organization he had founded to support educational opportunities for children and young people affected by the war in Ukraine. He noted that Semmelweis University was participating in the medical and diagnostic research on molecular fingerprinting led by Dr. Ferenc Krausz, and that to this end, the Center for Molecular Fingerprinting and the university jointly established the John von Neumann Institute for Data Science<\/a> on December 1, 2024. The ultimate goal of the research is to enable the diagnosis of well-known chronic diseases of civilization at an early stage by a simple blood test.<\/p>\n

As Dr. P\u00e9ter Ferdinandy, Vice-Rector for Science and Innovations, said about the awardee in his laudatory address, Dr. Ferenc Krausz is a Nobel and Wolf Prize-winning physicist, Scientific Director of CMF, Director of the Department Attosecond and High-field Physics of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Chair and Professor of Experimental Physics \u2013 Laser Physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ferenc Krausz\u2019s research team was the first to generate and measure attosecond light pulses and use them to map the motion of electrons within the atom, laying the foundations for the science of attosecond physics. In 2022, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics, shared with two other researchers, for his pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. In 2023, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Agostini and Anne L\u2019Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n