Herbert Winful

Winful was born in London, England, to Margaret Ferguson Graves, a teacher, and Herbert Francis, an engineer. where he attended Catholic Jubilee School and St Augustine's College. From 1980 to 1986, Winful was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts, conducting research in fiber optics and semiconductor laser physics. ==Career==

In 1987 Winful took up the post of associate professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department at the University of Michigan, and was promoted to become a full professor in 1992, then a year later promoted to an endowed professorship as Thurnau Professor. who in 2018 was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of a technique known as Chirped Pulse Amplification. Having published more than 130 journal articles and supervised the research of PhD students, In November 2022, Winful was inducted as a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS). ==Family and personal life==

Winful's mother was the headmistress of St. Michael's School in Cape Coast, and his father was a civil engineer who worked on the Akosombo Dam during its construction and later become executive secretary of the Volta River Authority. Winful is also a musician, during his Cape Coast school days playing rhythm guitar in a pop band, as well as organ in church. Winful performed one of his own original compositions at a party attended by some two hundred people in celebration of Gérard Mourou's 2018 Nobel win, and also honoured Mourou with the gift of a piece of Kente cloth. ==Selected honours and recognition==

• Member, The Electromagnetics Academy • Presidential Young Investigator, 1987 • Fellow, Optical Society of America, 1990 • Teaching Excellence Award, College of Engineering, 1990 • Professor of the Year, EECS Department, 1991 • State of Michigan Teaching Excellence Award, 1991 • Professor of the Year, EECS Department, 1993 • Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1994 • Faculty Advisor of the Year, 1993–1994 • Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Professor Award, 1993–1994 • Amoco/University Faculty Teaching Award, 1993–1994 • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002 • Director for Education and Outreach for the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) • Lead for University of Michigan's role in USAID's Excellence in Higher Education for Liberian Development (EHELD) • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award, 2020 • North Campus Deans' MLK Spirit Award, 2021 • Fellow, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2022 • Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, 2021 • College of Engineering Raymond J. and Monica E. Schultz Outreach and Diversity Award, 2021 ==Publications==

Selected articles • (With D. T. Walton) "Passive Mode Locking with an Active Nonlinear Directional Coupler: Positive Group-Velocity Dispersion", Optics Letters, 18, 720–722 (1 May 1993). • (With S. Feng and R. W. Hellwarth) "Gouy Shift and Temporal Reshaping of Focused Single-cycle Electromagnetic Pulses", Optics Letters., 23, 385 (1998). • (With S. Hunsche, S. Feng, A. Leitenstorfer, E. P. Ippen, and M. C. Nuss) "Spatiotemporal Focusing of Single-cycle Light Pulses", submitted to Optics Letters (1998). • (With S. Feng and R. W. Hellwarth) "Spatiotemporal Evolution of Single-cycle Electromagnetic Pulses", submitted to Physical Review E (1998). • (With S. Feng) "Fields of Single-cycle Terahertz Pulses Generated by a Loop Antenna", in ''CLEO '98 Proceedings'' (May 1998). • "Physical mechanism for apparent superluminality in barrier tunneling", in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2003), paper QFA5. DOI: 10.1109/QELS.2003.238281. • • • • "Compressing light and sound through chirpedpulse stimulated brillouin scattering", Optics Infobase Conference Papers (2013). • • ==References==