Arvinder Singh Sandhu

Assistant Professor of Physics
Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences

Contact Information

 

Education

  • PhD, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2005

  • MS, Indian Institute of technology, 1998

  • BS, G.N.D. University, 1996

Employment

  • The University of Arizona: Department of Physics; Assistant Professor, 2007-date; College of Optical Sciences; Assistant Professor, 2007-date

  • University of Colorado: JILA; Senior Research Associate, 2006-2007; Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2004-2006

  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Teaching Assistant, 1999-2001; Theoretical Astrophysics Department; Research Assistant, 1997.

Professional Affiliations, Activities, and Honors

  • Young Scientist Medal and Award, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India (May, 2007)

  • Best Ph.D. Thesis, TAA - Geeta Udgaonkar Award, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (2005).

  • Sarojini Damodran International Fellowship Award, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India (2003).

  • University Grants Commission, Government of India, International Travel Award (2003).

  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and University Grants Commission (UGC India) Qualified Physics Lecturer.

  • Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Travel award (2003).

  • Certificate of Merit for Academic Excellence during M.Sc. Physics program, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India (1998).

  • Gold Medal and Merit award in B.Sc. (Honors) Physics program, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India (1996).

  • National Scholar Merit Certificate for academic excellence in Senior Secondary class by Punjab State Government, India (1993).

  • Member of the American Physical Society.

  • Life member of the Plasma Science Society, India.

 

Research

  • High harmonic generation in hollow waveguides - XUV sources, attosecond pulse trains - generation and applications
  • Carrier Envelope Phase Stabilization techniques for grating based Ti:Sapphire ultrashort pulse amplifier systems.
  • Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy (a.k.a. Reaction Microscope) for coincidence imaging of molecular or atomic fragments.
  • Time resolved experiments to probe ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules and plasmas using X-ray and electrons in both high average power and high peak power regime.