Anne L’Huillier is a Swedish/French researcher in attosecond science. She defended her PhD thesis at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, in 1986. She did postdoctoral visits at Chalmers Instiitute of Technology, Gothenburg, in 1986 and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1989. She was employed as researcher at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, in Saclay, France until 1995. She moved to Lund University, Sweden and became full professor in 1997. Her research has been focused on high-order harmonic generation in gases and its applications. Currently, her group works on attosecond source development and optimization as well as the study of photoionization dynamics in atomic systems using attosecond pulses. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Austrian Academy of Sciences and of the accademia nazionale dei lincei.
