Faculty

Dr. Pawan Kumar is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Applied Sciences at Graphic Era (Deemed to be) University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He obtained his M.Tech. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. Dr. Kumar previously worked as a Project Scientist on SERB–DST–funded research projects at the Department of Physics, IIT Delhi, where his research focused on plasma effects at nanometre scales, terahertz radiation generation, and auxiliary heating mechanisms for tokamak plasmas. His current research interests span fundamental plasma physics, laser–plasma interactions, compact and tunable terahertz radiation sources, novel concepts for free-electron lasers, and plasma phenomena in nanoscale systems. Notably, Dr. Kumar proposed the theoretical concept of a surface plasmon laser, contributing to the advancement of plasmonic light–matter interaction frameworks. Dr. Kumar has published 45 research articles in highly reputed journals. He is an active member of the Advanced Linear Collider Study Research Group and participates in an international collaborative study group dedicated to the development of advanced and novel accelerator concepts for high-energy physics applications. As part of these international collaborations, Dr. Kumar has visited the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He has also delivered invited talks at the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Over the last decade the focus of his research has been light matter interaction at nanoscale(plasmonics) radio frequency heating of plasmas, laser plasma interactions, laser plasma-based particle accelerators, laser driven fusion, laser plasma based compact radiation sources