PhD in 2001 with distinction from TU Munich, Oberassistent/Habilitation at ETH Zürich. Since 2007 at ICFO, he has pioneered mid-IR photonics, attosecond soft X-rays and laser-induced electron diffraction which led to breakthroughs in imaging chemical dynamics and many-body quantum dynamics in materials.

He is Associate Editor of Optica and AAAS/CAS Ultrafast Science, Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Fellow of Optica (formerly Optical Society), Fellow of the American Physical Society, recipient of the Thousand Talents Program Award China, the OSA Allen Prize, and Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, ERC Advanced Grant and ERC Proof of Concept Grant holder. He coordinates a FET Consortium and is part of two FET consortia. Jens Biegert holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico in the USA, as Guest Professor at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society at Berlin. He is actively involved in the scientific community, e.g. co-author of the whitebook that lead to the construction of the 1.2-Billion-Euro European Extreme Light Infrastructures, Board of Directors of Optica (formerly the Optical Society), the Scientific Advisory Board of FORTH in Crete and the Central Laser Facility of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and he had served on the Board of Chairs of ARIE, the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe and as Executive Director of the “Laserlab-Europe” Association, the largest laser-based research network incorporating 46 leading research infrastructures across 22 countries.