Prof. Hrvoje Petek

Hrvoje Petek is the R. K. Mellon Chair of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his education in Chemistry from MIT (BS; 1980) and U.C. Berkeley (PhD; 1985). From 1985 to 1993 he was first a postdoctoral fellow and then a Research Associate at the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, Japan. In 1993 he joined the Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory as a Group Leader. In 2000 he moved to the University of Pittsburgh as a Professor of Physics and to the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin as a Humboldt Awardee. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Surface Science. His research interests span ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy of solid-state materials and surfaces. He pioneered coherent multiphoton photoemission as a method for investigating coherent electron dynamics on the femtosecond temporal and nanometer spatial scales at semiconductor and metal surfaces.