Davidovich Luiz

Davidovich was educated at the Pontificia U. Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the U. of Rochester, USA (PhD 1975). He is Emeritus Professor at the Federal U. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has held several visiting positions in France, Germany, USA and UK. His interests cover quantum optics and quantum information. His research has focused on the emergence of the classical world from the quantum substrate; laser theory; cavity quantum electrodynamics; quantum entanglement; and quantum metrology. He is member of the Braz. Acad. of Sci. and Foreign Associate of the US Natl. Acad. of Sci., European Academy of Sciences, and Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Fellow of the Optical Soc. of Am. and of the Am. Physical Soc.. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Natl. Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil (2000), the TWAS Physics Prize (2001), the Braz. Natl. Prize of Sci. (2010), the TWAS Apex Award (2025), and the Willis E. Lamb Award (2025). He was President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2022, and Secretary-General of TWAS (2019-2022).