Some areas of expertise

• Geochemical Physics of the Environment: Lake sediment structure and evolution; nonlinear processes in geochemical systems; pattern formation in rocks and minerals; dynamics of magmatic flow
• High Pressure Physics: Modeling of molecular systems under extreme conditions ; dense gas hydrates ; high pressure-high temperature synthesis of potentially ultra-hard materials; use of synchrotron radiation to probe materials
• Microstructural Science: Carbon nanotubes and nanotube devices; growth and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures; Electronic and optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots; nano-spintronics with quantum dots; quantum information and computation; modeling of mechanical properties of materials; ab initio calculations
• Novel Alloys: Electronic and magnetic properties of quasicrystals, metallic glasses and complex crystalline alloys
• Photovoltaics: Theories of electron transport and device modelling in novel high-efficiency photovoltaics; Nonradiative recombination in semiconductor materials; Multijunction solar cell characterization and deployment.
• Polymer Physics: Theory of electrophoresis for conjugated and branched molecules ; micro- and nano-fluidic bioanalytical devices; theory and simulation of isolated polymer collisions; simulation of biofilm growth; diffusion on a lattice with obstacles
• Quantum materials: Strongly correlated materials; Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons; low-dimensional semiconductors
• Soft Condensed Matter: Experimental and computational study of aging and dynamics in soft glassy materials; Microrheology of soft materials; Highly entropic inhomogeneous materials and biological membranes; physical properties of these materials under stress
• Surface Physics: Surface morphology of crystalline solids on the nanometer scale; kinetics of surface roughening and annealing; reaction kinetics on surfaces

Some areas of expertise

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• Laser Applications: Frequency stabilized near-infrared lasers ; precision measurements
• Medical biophotonics: Optical techniques for the non-invasive assessment of biological systems; optical models of the eye; monitoring of systemic diseases through the human eye.
• Nanophotonics and Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Slow and fast light: quantum imaging; quantum communication using orbital angular momentum states of light; nanophotonics including metamaterials and photonic crystal structures; Quantum Information in Integrated Optics, Quantum Metrology, Sources of Entangled and Single Photons, Fundamental Issues in Quantum Physics, Quantum Optics
• Optical Sensing: Theory and instrumentation for distributed fiber sensing of structural health properties in large infrastructures
• Electrophotonics: Fabrication of Bragg Gratings in Waveguides ; UV and ultrafast IR photosensitivity; phase mask design; Bragg grating structures; fused biconic tapered coupler devices; photonics and material sciences applications; photonic applications of quantum dots; ultrafast spectroscopy
• Fiber Optics: Fiber communication impairments ; Brillouin effect for optical routing; ultrafast fiber lasers; nonlinear effects in micro-structured fibers
• Laser Matter Interaction: Strong field atomic and molecular physics; laser processing of matter on sub-micron scale
• Attosecond Physics: Generation and measurement of ultra-short high intensity optical and electron pulse; molecular photonics