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Denver, Co, Us

Urbana, Il, Us

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Leading an independent research in theoretical and experimental quantum optics, advising students and writing research proposal for funding agencies.Lead instructor of the class Physics 402: Light

Consulting companies in research and development of novel optical products, including the writing of grant proposals for government funding agencies, performing calculations, designing experiments and planning project directions

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Designing and implementing ultrafast laser experiments and their application to photoswitching andphotocatalytic materials.• Overseeing, directing, and supervising graduate students, research personnel, and undergraduatestudents for laser-based research

Gaithersburg, Md

• Conducted research on nonlinear optical interactions in semiconductor microdisk resonators• Performed experiments with fiber lasers, optical parametric oscillator, GaAs microdisks, tapered fibers• Developed theoretical and experimental approaches towards the understanding of microdisk cavity modes, coupling between tapered fiber and cavity modes, and nonlinear interactions inside microdisk cavities

Newark, De

• Supervised students and guided projects in quantum optics, ultrafast spectroscopy, and Kerr microscopy• Developed new spectroscopic techniques to study the molecular dynamics of liquid hydrocarbons, and formed a theoretical model with which to understand the results• Developed new techniques to optimize photon-pair quantum-state sources based on commercial optical fibers• Investigated the storage of broadband photonic quantum states in atomic vapors• Built and developed an apparatus to probe ultrafast dynamics of spin wave propagation inmagnetic materials• Helped to develop and write successful research proposals for funding agencies• Implemented numerical methods and expanded existing algorithms to suit specific applications

Oxford, Uk

• Developed and performed new techniques for generating uncorrelated photon-pairs in optical fibers, useful for quantum information applications• Designed and implemented experiments with ultrafast lasers, optical fibers, avalanche photodiodes and electronics• Designed theoretical models and coded simulations of optical nonlinear interactions

Rehovot, Israel

Created models and developed algorithms to simulate the interaction of atomic beam with electromagnetic wave

Haifa, Israel

• Image processing: developed techniques to insert vehicles, trees and terrain manipulations into photographs

Doctor Of Philosophy (Dphil), Atomic And Laser Physics

Master’S Degree, Physics

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics, Summa Cum Laude