Steven Cundiff

Steven Cundiff
Residence	United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Michigan University of Colorado NIST
Alma mater	University of Michigan Rutgers University
Doctoral advisor	Duncan G. Steel
Known for	Dropleton Frequency Combs Ultrafast Spectroscopy Coherent control
Notable awards	U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal (2013) OSA Meggers Award (2011) Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2010) U.S. Department of Commerce Group Bronze Medal (2009) U.S. Department of Commerce Group Gold Medal (2001)

Steven Cundiff is an American experimental physicist and the Harrison M. Randall collegiate professor of physics at the University of Michigan.^[1] His research interests include the production and manipulation of ultrafast pulses, in particular for applications in studying light-matter interactions. Cundiff is a Fellow of American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the co-author (with Jun Ye) of the standard reference for frequency combs titled Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb: Principle, Operation and Applications.^[2]

Early Life and Education

Steven Cundiff graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in physics in 1985. Following graduation, he took a position as associate scientist at SciTec Inc. in Princeton, NJ, where he remained from 1985 to 1987. Cundiff then returned to school at the University of Michigan, graduating with an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 1991 and 1992 respectively under Duncan G. Steel. From 1993 to 1994 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Marburg, and from 1995 to 1997 he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories.^[3]

Career

In 1997, Cundiff joined the Quantum Physics division at NIST as a staff member as well as an Adjoint Assistant Professor of the University of Colorado, Boulder. From 2004 to 2009 he served as chief of the Quantum Physics division at NIST, and in 2016 he took the position of Harrison M. Randall collegiate professor of physics at the University of Michigan.

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