I have more than TWENTY-SIX (26) years of research experience in the field of experimental Nonlinear Optics and Photonics.
I had obtained my Master's degree (with specialization in the area of Electronics) and Ph.D.
degree from University of Hyderabad, India.
My thesis, supervised by Prof. D. Narayana Rao, dealt
with Incoherent Laser Spectroscopy for the measurement of ultra-fast relaxation times and third
order nonlinearities in a variety of organic molecules, including C60, Porphyrins, and Phthalocyanines,
using a nanosecond laser.
I had spent close to three years as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Majid Ebrahimzadeh
(Now at ICFO, Barcelona, Spain) at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK working in the area of
Semiconductor Nonlinear Optics investigating semiconductor hetero-structures for nonlinear frequency
conversion using different phase-matching schemes with femtosecond pulses.
From July 2003 until
December 2004, I was associated with Centre for Ion Beam Applications group headed by Prof. Frank
Watt as a Research Fellow in the physics department at National University of Singapore. My interests at
NUS involved proton beam writing and its applications for Polymer Photonics.
From December
2004 to May 2007 I was associated with the physics department of Indian Institute of Technology,
Guwahati as Assistant Professor focusing on development of a Nonlinear Optics and Photonics laboratory
and was actively involved in teaching graduate and under-graduate students.
Since June 2007 I have been
associated with Advanced Centre of Research on High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), University
of Hyderabad as Reader (until 2013) and Professor (since 2013) and have been working towards the understanding the interaction of nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond laser pulses with high
energy materials using various time-resolved spectroscopic techniques such as laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, ultrafast pump-probe, ultrafast ablation, and ultrafast laser direct writing.
2 PLENARY TALKS, >65 invited talks, >100 ORAL presentations at various national/international conferences.
Over TWENTY SIX (26) years of research experience resulting in more than THREE HUNDRED & FIFTY PLUS (350+) well-cited publications in refereed
international journals/proceedings and conference papers (100+). His papers have totaled >5229 citations (SCOPUS) as of OCTOBER 2020.
Google Scholar Citations: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=drr_va8AAAAJ&hl=en
6002 citations (OCTOBER 2020). EIGHT (8) documents with >100 citations and THIRTY-SEVEN (37) documents with >50 citations.
h-index of 39 in SCOPUS; h-index of 44 and i10-index of 136 in GOOGLE SCHOLAR; 37 in Web of Science
SCOPUS LINK: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57209992249
RESEARCHER ID: B-2651-2008 (www.researcherid.com/rid/B-2651-2008)
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5361-7256
KUDOS: https://www.growkudos.com/profiles/38785
LOOP: http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/123129/overview
