Professional experience

• Department of Physics - QET Labs, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Feb 2024 - present: Senior Research Associate 

• Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
  Apr 2019 - January 2024: Specially Appointed Researcher
  Oct 2018 - Mar 2019: Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Feb 2018 - June 2018: Research Fellow

• Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  Mar 2015 - Feb 2018: D. S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow
  Feb 2014 - Feb 2015: Research Associate                                                                                    

Educational details 

• Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
  2014: Ph.D.

• Department of Physics, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India
  2009: M.Sc.  Physics                                 

Research interests

Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics; Laser cooling and trapping; Ultracold atoms; Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC); Optical lattices; atomic Mott-insulator (MI), Ultrafast Quantum Simulations; Rydberg atoms; Quantum Optics. The details of my research interests is given below:

Experimental research interests:

Ultrafast Rydberg quantum simulation platform using ultracold atoms :
Laser cooling and trapping to achieve coldest temperatures (nano-kelvin); 87Rb BEC; Optical lattice; atomic MI; ultrafast Rydberg excitation as close as ∼ 532 nm by circumventing the Rydberg blockade (using broadband laser pulses); atto-second coherent control; time domain Ramsey interferometry; quantum spin dynamics; ultrafast quantum simulations. 

Room temperature atomic vapor experiments:
Laser spectroscopy using atomic vapors of 87Rb and 133Cs; quantum optics; electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and absorption (EIA), coherent population trapping (CPT), coherent population pumping in a bright state (CBS) and Hanle effect.           

Theoretical research interests:

Investigation of quantum optical phenomena:
Density-matrix formalism; quantum optics: quantum interference and atomic coherence effects, manipulation of group velocity of light inside atomic medium; hyperfine levels effect on EIT and EIA; a four level system in vee+ladder atomic system; first theoretical investigation of Rydberg EIA and sub- and super-luminal light propagation using a Rydberg state.