Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c. Karl Ludwig Kompa
Founding member of the Max Planck project group Laserforschung at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in 1976
Founding member of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in 1981
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics from 1981 till 2006
Leader of the Laser Chemistry Division till his retirement in 2006
Leader of the Laser Chemistry Emeritus Group until 2013