Atac Imamoglu received his Ph.D from Stanford University. After postdoctoral stays at NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan and at the Institute of Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at Harvard University, he joined The University of California at Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor in 1993. He was promoted to Associate Professorship in 1997 and to Full Professorship in 1999. Prof. Imamoglu is currently Full Professor of Quantum Electronics at the Department of Physics of the ETH Zurich.