Dr. Peter Hommelhoff is professor of physics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany. He received the diploma in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in 1999 and the PhD in physics from University of Munich (LMU) in 2002.
From 2004 through 2007 he was postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. From 2007 to 2012 he ran a Max Planck Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching/Munich. In May 2012 he received the habilitation in physics from LMU Munich. Since 2012 he holds the Chair for Laser Physics at Friedrich Alexander University and, since 2018, is Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.
Hommelhoff has received an ERC Consolidator Grant, is co-spokesperson of the Moore Foundation-sponsored Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP) jointly with Professor Byer of Stanford University, was, amongst others, member of the board of the DFG Cluster of Excellence Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics, was Trimble Fellow of the Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time, and Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2018, he was visiting professor at Stanford University.
His main current research interests include light-matter interactions on extremely fast time scales (femto- and attoseconds). His work focuses on strong-field physics at the surface of and inside of solids, on electron acceleration with laser light at photonic structures, and on quantum-enhanced electron microscopy.

Honors and select funding
ERC Advanced Grant “AccelOnChip”, 2020 – 2025
Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, 2018
Visiting professor, Physics Department, Stanford University, March – Sept. 2018
“Prize for good teaching” for Experimental Physics 1 & 2 course, FAU Physics Department, 2017
Spokesperson (jointly with Prof. R. L. Byer, Stanford), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP), 2015 – 2020 (Total funding of $13,5 Million, partners: Stanford, FAU, Purdue, UCLA, TU Darmstadt, EPFL Lausanne, Uni Hamburg, SLAC, PSI, DESY, Tech-X)
Principal Investigator, SFB-953 “Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”, since 2016
Principal Investigator (jointly with Profs. Fennel, Kling), DFG SPP-1840 “Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields”, since 2015
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2014 – 2019
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Quantum Electron Microscope Grant, jointly with MIT, Stanford and Delft), 2012 – 2017, and extension QEM-II, since 2017
DARPA AXiS project (Advanced X-ray Integrated Source, with Stanford / SLAC, Prof. R. L. Byer), 2011 – 2013 (program closed)
Munich Center for Advanced Photonics, Member, 2008 – 2017
Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant of the European Union, 2008 – 2012
Head of a Max Planck Research group (formerly known as Independent reserach group leader of the Max Planck Society, free floater), Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, 2008 – 2013
Trimble Postdoctoral Fellow of the Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time, 2006 – 2007
Feodor Lynen Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2002 – 2005