Jon Marangos is Professor of Laser Physics and Lockyer Chair in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London's Faculty of Natural Sciences, where he directs the Blackett Laboratory Laser Consortium and previously led the Quantum Optics and Laser Science Group (2003-2008). Education: BSc in Physics, Imperial College London, 1982 PhD in Physics, Imperial College London, 1986 His research pioneers attosecond-scale measurement techniques, coherent X-ray/VUV generation via nonlinear optics, and high-intensity laser-matter interactions with molecules/clusters. Recent work focuses on controlling electron dynamics in complex systems and developing sub-femtosecond light sources, with applications spanning atomic physics to quantum engineering. Analysis of his 2023-2025 publications reveals dominant themes in attosecond electron dynamics using XFELs and high-harmonic generation, particularly probing electronic coherence, charge migration, and ultrafast structural changes in molecules and condensed matter. Awards and Honors: EPSRC Advanced Fellow (1990) Fellow of the Optical Society of America Fellow of the Institute of Physics ERC Advanced Grant on ASTEX (2012) EPSRC Programme Grant on Attosecond Electron Dynamics (2011) As Principal Investigator, he leads major grants including the EPSRC Programme Grant 'Attosecond Electron Dynamics' and ERC's ASTEX project, supervising numerous PhD students and postdocs while securing sustained funding from UKRI and European agencies. He directs the Blackett Laboratory Laser Consortium and collaborates through Imperial's Frontiers of Ultrafast Measurement, Physics of Life, and Quantum Engineering communities, maintaining active roles in LCLS (SLAC) and FLASH (DESY) experiments.




