Dr. Pawan Kumar | Faculty | Physics

Dr. Pawan Kumar
Associate Professor

RESEARCH AREA

Fundamental of Plasma Physics, Radio Frequency Heating of Plasmas, Magnetic Fusion, High Power Laser Plasma Interaction, Parametric Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasmas, Laser Driven Charged Particles Acceleration( Compact  Charged Particles Accelerators), Inertial Confinement Fusion, Novel Concept for Free Electron Lasers (FELs), Compact Radiation Sources (Terahertz Ray, X-Ray and Gamma Ray), Light Matter Interaction at Nanoscale, Nanostructured Plasmas, Plasmonics, Graphene Plasmonics, Terahertz Plasmonics, High Harmonics Generation, Plasmonics Lasers, Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering(SERS), High Power Radio Waves Propagation in Ionosphere. 

EDUCATION

  • Ph. D. (Physics-Plasma Physics), IIT Delhi, 2009
  • M.Tech. (Solid State Materials), IIT Delhi, 2001

AWARDS

  • GATE Fellowship- M. Tech, IIT Delhi
  • Senior Research Fellowship- Ph.D., IIT Delhi
  • Research Associate/ Project Scientist, Physics Dept., IIT Delhi, Jan 2009 to Jan 2014
  • Best Researcher Award Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad, U.P., India

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

  • Advanced Linear Collider Research Group (ALEGRO): An International Study Group to Promote Advanced and Novel Accelerators for High Energy Physics applications.

Dr. Pawan Kumar is currently working as an Associate Prof. of Physics at the Department of Applied Sciences, Graphic Era (Deemed to be) University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He received an M.Tech. and Physics in Physics from IIT Delhi, India. Dr. Pawan Kumar worked as a project scientist in SERB-DST-funded research projects on plasma effects in nano dimensions, terahertz radiation generation, and auxiliary heating of tokamak at the Department of Physics, IIT Delhi. Dr. Pawan Kumar currently has interests in research areas of fundamentals of plasma physics, laser plasma interactions, compact sources for terahertz radiation generation, novel ideas for free electron lasers, plasma effects in nano dimensions. Dr. Pawan Kumar developed the concept of “A Surface Plasmon Laser.” Dr. Pawan Kumar has published 35 research papers in highly reputed American Institute of Physics and Optical Society of America journals. Dr. Pawan Kumar is a member of the Advanced Linear Collider Study Research Group and part of An International Study Group to Promote Advanced and Novel Accelerators for High Energy Physics Applications. Dr. Pawan Kumar visited the University of Oxford, England (As a member of the Advanced Linear Collider Study Research Group), Imperial College London, England, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Dr. Pawan Kumar gave the invited talks at the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.