Jens Biegert is ICREA Professor at ICFO and leads experimental research on Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics. Biegert received his PhD in Physics in 2001 from the Technische Universität München, based on work at the University of New Mexico in the USA under the supervision of Jean-Claude Diels. The topic of his PhD was the physics of multiphoton coherent excitation of atomic sodium, with applications for astronomical guidestars. After completing his PhD, he pursued his Habilitation to lead a group on attosecond science at ETH Zürich. Since 2007, at ICFO, he has pioneered mid-IR photonics, attosecond soft X-rays, and laser induced electron diffraction, leading to breakthroughs in imaging chemical dynamics and carrier motion in quantum materials. Currently, he coordinates a European Commission FET Consortium and participates in two additional FET consortia. Jens Biegert is a Guest Professor at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. For example, he is actively involved in the scientific community as a co-author of the white book with Gérard Mourou, which contributed to the development of the 1.2-billion-Euro European Extreme Light Infrastructure. He serves on the Board of Directors of OPTICA, is Chair of the Meetings Council, and is part of the Strategic Planning and Finance Councils. He previously served on the Board of Chairs of ARIE, the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe, which represents seven networks of European infrastructures involving 40,000 researchers. He led Europe’s foremost laser network, “Laserlab-Europe,” as its Executive Director, uniting 46 leading research infrastructures across 22 European countries. He is a Topical Editor of OPTICA and AAAS/CAS Ultrafast Science and is a Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, OPTICA, and the American Physical Society. He has received numerous awards, including the Thousand Talents Program Award of the People's Republic of China, the OSA Allen Prize, the Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, the ERC Advanced Grant, and the ERC Proof of Concept Grant.