Dr. Sankar De

Career
Associate Professor F: July, 2017 (continuing) Associate Professor E: November, 2011 - June, 2017 Postdoc (Femtosecond Laser Chemistry): Worked from November, 2010 till October, 2011 in the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark.        Highlight: Alignment and orientation of polar molecules using nanosecond and femtosecond laser pulses, coherent diffractive imaging of molecules using short X-ray pulses produced from free electron lasers at FLASH, Hamburg, Germany and LCLS, Stanford, USA.  Supervisor: Prof. Henrik Stapelfeldt Research Associate (Experimental AMO Physics): Worked from November, 2007 till October, 2010 in the James R. Macdonald Laboratory (JRML), Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA. Highlight: Probing atoms and molecules using few-cycle intense infrared (IR) laser pulses, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy in combination with VMI technique, two-color field-free orientation of polar molecules, tracking dynamics in molecular systems with EUV + IR overlap.  Supervisor: Prof. Igor V. Litvinyuk and Prof. Charles Lewis Cocke