BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Vishwa Pal joined Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India, as an Assistant Professor in May 2018. His research expertise includes the phase locking of large arrays of coupled lasers and their potential applications for both applied and basic research. He received his PhD degree in 2014 from School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has done part of his PhD at CNRS Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France in the framework of Indo-French collaborations. During his Ph.D. program, he investigated semiconductor laser systems by probing noise correlations and dynamical control with delayed optical feedbacks. After Ph.D., he received PBC fellowship for outstanding postdoctoral researcher by the Council for Higher Education of Israel, and joined laser group of Prof. Nir Davidson and Prof. Asher A. Friesem at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His postdocotral research focused on exploting coupled lasers for investigating topological effects, simulating spins and solving computationally hard problems. He also worked on laser beam shaping with industries in Israel towards Advanced Laser Technologies for Industrial Applications. In 2018, he joined CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA, as a research scientist and worked on synthesizing non-diffracting optical beams in free space by exploiting space-time correlations. In 2018, he also received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship By European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme.

Education:

• Ph. D. (Laser Physics): 2014, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. (Part of the Ph.D. work is done at CNRS Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Orsay, France)

• M.Sc. (Physics): 2006, University of Lucknow, Lucknow

• B.Sc. (Physics, Mathematics): 2004, M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly

Work Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Ropar, Punjab, India, (May 2018 – Present).

• Research Scientist, CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA, (March 2018 –April 2018).

• Research Staff Intern, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (April 2017 – March 2018).

• PBC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (April 2013 – March 2017).

Visiting positions:

• SIRE visiting researcher at CNRS Laboratoire Lumière, Matière et Interfaces (LuMIn), Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, July - September 2022 ( 3 months)

• Invited for laboratory visit and talk, XLIM Research Institute, University of Limoges, LImoges, France, 27-28 August 2018.

• Visiting fellow at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton- CNRS, Université Paris Sud 11, Campus d’Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, (June 2012 –July 2012) (two months).

• Visiting fellow at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton- CNRS, Université Paris Sud 11, Campus d’Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, (July 2011) (One month).

• Visiting fellow at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton- CNRS, Université Paris Sud 11, Campus d’Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, (June 2010 – July 2010) (two months).

• Visiting fellow at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton- CNRS, Université Paris Sud 11, Campus d’Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, (June 2009 – July 2009) (two months).

Awards/Honors/Fellowships:

• 2022: SERB-International Research Experience Fellowship (Award number: SIR/2022/000199)

• S. R. Seshadri JOSA Publications Grant 2021 by OPTICA, USA

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship By European Commission (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017), (2018).

• Research Scientist at CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, UCF, Orlando, Florida, USA, (March 2018).

• Research Intern appointment at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehvot, Israel, (April 2017).

• PBC Post-doctoral Fellowship by Council for Higher Education of Israel, (October 2013).

• Postdoctoral Fellowship by Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (April 2013).

• Senior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), (Jan 2011 –Dec 2013).

• Junior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), (Jan 2008 –Dec 2011).

• Best Oral Presentation Award at IONS: International OSA Network of Students, IIT Delhi, (Dec 2011).

Professional memberships:

1. Individual member of OPTICA (Formerly Optical Society of America)

2. Life member of Indian Physics Association (IPA)

3. Life member of Indian Laser Association (ILA)

4. Optica chapter advisor (March 2020- present)

My Weblinks:

§ Google Scholar -- http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=4TfBoFEAAAAJ&hl=en

§ Research Gate -- http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vishwa_Pal

§ Linkedin -- http://in.linkedin.com/pub/vishwa-pal/32/703/985

§ SPIE -- http://spie.org/profile/Vishwa.Pal-142231

§ JNU Academia -- http://jnu.academia.edu/VishwaPal

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