# Ursula Keller

> Ursula Keller is a Swiss physicist. She has been a tenured physics professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 1993. A pioneer in ultrafast science and technology, she is known for inventing the semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), enabling passive mode-locking of lasers and revolutionizing ultrafast laser applications in science and industry. Keller led the Swiss NCCR MUST program in ultrafast science (2010–2022), co-founded several companies, including Time-Bandwidth Products and K2 Photonics, and published a graduate textbook "Ultrafast Laser Physics" with Springer Verlag. She is highly cited and received many prestigious awards. From 2012-2016 she was the founding president of the Women Professors Forum at ETH Zurich.

*Swiss laser physicist and university teacher (born 1959)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Switzerland
- **Born:** 1959-06-21
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

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## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340732)

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