Amelle is the head of the Attosecond Quantum Physics Laboratory “AttoKings” in the Physics Department at Kin’s College London.

After a MSc in laser-matter interaction at Orsay-Ecole Polytechnique France, She was awarded her PhD on “Production and characterisation of XUV attosecond pulses” in 2006 from University of Bordeaux ‘Centre for intense lasers and applications’; which she obtained with the highest distinction.

These attosecond pulses discovery was awarded the Nobel in Physics 2023.

These pulses are known to be the shortest flash of coherent light ever achieved and the attosecond community is growing stronger worldwide in the last decades. Amelle is contributing to the UK effort on Attosecond Physics.

After her PhD she joined world recognised groups in ultrafast physics (ETH Zurich and USAL) for postdoctoral studies where she experimentally discovered the now well know Quantum Path Interferences “QPI” process in high order harmonic generation.

Following her postdoctoral studies, she was awarded an EPSRC CAF fellowship in 2011 and she built her own group at Imperial College London where she led two novel investigation lines: capturing attosecond dynamics in atoms and molecules using attosecond quantum path interferometry, and new generation of high repetition rate Yb femtosecond laser for high repetition rate attosecond physics.

She joined our department in second half of 2017 to bring attosecond physics to King’s.