Henry C. Kapteyn, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Henry C. Kapteyn, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Henry C. Kapteyn is co-founder of KMLabs Inc and Co-Chairman of the board. Henry is well-established as a leading researcher in the area of ultrafast optical science, and is Professor of Physics and a fellow of JILA, a joint NIST/University institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received a BS from Harvey Mudd College in 1982, an MS from Princeton University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. He and his wife and long-term collaborator, Margaret Murnane, are well known for their research in femtosecond lasers, and for understanding how to coherently upconvert this light to make a “tabletop x-ray laser” that they have applied to pioneering studies of material behavior at short length- and time-scales. He has published more than 200 papers (h-index 88), and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include the Adolph Lomb Medal of the OSA in 1993, the Ahmed Zewail Award of the ACS in 2009, the R.W. Wood Prize of the OSA in 2010, the Arthur Schawlow Prize of the APS in 2010, the Willis Lamb Award in Quantum Electronics in 2012, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
Margaret M. Murnane, Co-Founder
Margaret M. Murnane, Co-Founder
Margaret M. Murnane is co-founder of KMLabs Inc. Margaret is one of the most-prominent practicing physical scientists in the US today. She is Distinguished Professor of Physics and ECE, and a fellow of JILA, a joint NIST/University institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received BS and MS degrees in physics from University College Cork, Ireland, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. She and Henry are well known for their research in ultrafast science. Her research has won her numerous accolades, including the APS Simon Ramo Award in 1990, the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in 1997, a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellow grant in 2000, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004, and the Boyle Medal— Ireland’s highest scientific honor— in 2011. She has done extensive service on behalf of US science, including serving as the Chair of President Obama’s Committee for the National Medal of Science.
