Professor Gérard Albert Mourou is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers. He is the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with his doctoral student, Donna Strickland, on chirped pulse amplification(CPA), opening up new ways to realize ultra-high-power lasers and advancing laser-matter interactions into the realm of relativity and extreme relativity.

Professor Mourou studied physics at the University of Grenoble, and then at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1973. He later moved to the United States and became a professor at the University of Rochester and University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where he did his Nobel Prize awarded work.

Professor Mourou has made numerous contributions to the fields of ultrafast lasers, high-speed electronics and medicine. He has been honored with several notable awards for his breakthrough scientific inventions, including Charles Hard Townes Award by the OSA (2009), Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science by the American Physical Society (2018), etc. He was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019).