Dr. Vishwa Pal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, Punjab, India. He earned his PhD degree in 2014 from the School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. As part of his doctoral research, he conducted a portion of his work at the CNRS Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France, under the Indo-French collaborative framework. His Ph.D. research focused on the investigation of semiconductor laser systems, specifically exploring noise correlations and dynamical control using delayed optical feedback. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Pal was awarded the prestigious PBC Fellowship for Outstanding Postdoctoral Researchers by the Council for Higher Education of Israel. He joined the research group of Prof. Nir Davidson and Prof. Asher A. Friesem at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. His postdoctoral research focused on phase-locking large arrays of lasers and utilizing them to explore topological effects, simulate spin systems, and solve computationally hard problems. Additionally, he contributed to industrial laser beam shaping applications in collaboration with Israeli industry partners. In 2018, Dr. Pal joined CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, in Florida, USA, as a Research Scientist. There, he worked on the synthesis of non-diffracting optical beams in free space by leveraging space-time correlations. In the same year, he was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship by the European Commission.
Ph. D. (Laser Physics): 2014, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. (Part of the doctoral research conducted at CNRS Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay, France)
M.Sc. (Physics): 2006, University of Lucknow, Lucknow
B.Sc. (Physics, Mathematics): 2004, M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Ropar, Punjab, India, (June 2025 – present).
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Ropar, Punjab, India, (May 2018 – May 2025).
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 – February 2018).
PBC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (April 2013 – March 2017).
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).
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).
Individual member of OPTICA (Formerly Optical Society of America)
Life member of Indian Physics Association (IPA)
Life member of Indian Laser Association (ILA)
Optica chapter advisor (March 2020- present)
§ 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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