Personal status:

• Born September 11, 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco
• French citizen
• Married, two children

Academic Training and degrees:

• Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 1963-1967
• Doctorat de Troisieme Cycle, Paris 1967 and Agrégation de Physique, Paris 1967
• Thèse d’Etat de Physique (PhD in Physics), Paris 1971

Former Positions:

• Attaché de recherches au CNRS, Paris, 1967-1971
• Chargé de recherches au CNRS, Paris, 1971-1973
• Maître de recherches au CNRS, Paris, 1973-1975
• Maître de conferences at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1973-1984
• Visiting scholar at Stanford University, 1972-1973,1976 and 1979
• Visiting scientist at M.I.T. (Cambridge, USA) 1979
• Visiting Professor at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA), 1981
• Professor at Yale University (part time), (New Haven, CT, USA) 1984-93
• Professeur de Physique at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 1975-2001
• Professeur at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, September 1982 -2001
• Member of Institut Universitaire de France, December 1991-2001
• Directeur du Département de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1994-2000
• Professeur at Collège de France, Chaire de Physique Quantique, 2001-2015

Prizes and Awards:

• Prix Aimé Cotton of the French Physical Society, 1971
• Grand Prix de Physique Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society, 1983
• Einstein Prize for Laser Science (Industrial and University Research Affiliates), 1988
• Humboldt Award, Germany (1992)
• Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (1993)
• EPS traveling lecturer (1993-94)
• Tomassoni award of La Sapienza University, Rome (2001)
• Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society (2002)
• Quantum Communication Award of the International Organization for Quantum -Communication, Measurement and Computing and Tamagawa University (Japan) (2002)
• Charles Hard Townes Prize of the American Physical Society, (2007)
• Gra-Cruz Ordem Nacional do Merito Cientifico, Brazil (2007)
• Médaille d’or du CNRS (CNRS Gold Medal) (2009)
• Advanced Research Grant ERC (2009)
• Herbert Walther Award of the German Physical Society and Optical Society of America (2010)
• Nobel Prize for Physics (2012)

Membership in Professional Institutions:

• French Physical Society
• European Physical Society (EPS)
• American Physical Society, Member 1988, Fellow 1990

Membership in Academies:

• Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1993
• Brazilian Academy of Sciences (foreign member) (2009)
• European Academy of Sciences (2009)
• National Academy of Sciences, USA (foreign member) (2010)