The Charpak-Ritz Prize 2019 is awarded to Benoît Deveaud

This year Professor Benoît Deveaud, best known to Switzerland from his former activities at EPFL and since 2017 acting as Vice Provost for Research at École Polytechnique (France), is honoured for his “pioneering optical spectroscopy studies dedicated to the ultrafast and quantum optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures.”