Margaret M. Murnane
Founder and Chair of the Board
KM Labs
Ukraine
Biography
Margaret M. Murnane is co-founder of KMLabs Inc. and Chair of the Board. 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, currently as the Chair of President Obama’s Committee for the National Medal of Science.
Research Interest
Her research interest is focused on Physics
