Sunil Kumar


Professor
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016
E-mail: kumarsunil@physics.iitd.ac.in; sunilvdabral@gmail.com
Office: MS 311 (2nd Floor, Main Building)
Tel: (+91)-11-2659 1515 (O)
Lab: MS 419 (Femtosecond Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory)
Tel: (+91)-11-2659 7988/6543

Teaching

Research

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Biography

2025 - Present Professor
2020 - 2025 Associate Professor
2015 - 2020 Assistant Professor
2012 - 2015

Feinberg Postdoctoral Fellow

Mentor: Prof. Yaron Silberberg, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

Experience in the field of nonlinear optics, super-resolution imaging and quantum coherent control

Contributed towards the development of single beam single pulse multimodal microscopy system involving nonlinear optical micro-spectroscopy, coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering and nonlinear generation by photonic crystal fibers for a FAMOS project by the European Union

2005 - 2012

PhD Scholar

Supervisor: Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Thesis title: Femtosecond Time-Domain Spectroscopy of Iron-Pnictide High-Tc Superconductors and Nanosystems

Awarded Gold Medal for the best PhD theis in experimental condensed matter physics of IISc Beangalore

Received training on the design and development of intense femtosecond laser oscillators, regenerative amplifiers and optical parametric amplifiers at Spectra Physics, San Jose, California, USA (2006)

Recieved training on the development of THz time-domain spectrometers at Universite de Bordeaux, France (2007)

JRF: 2005-2007; SRF: 2007-2010; DST Research Fellow: 2010-2012

Joint CSIR-UGC NET/JRF for 2003,2004,2005

2004 - 2005

Post MSc Diploma in Advance Physics

Institute of Physis Bhubaneswar; Equivalent to MPhil

Major Project: Mean field approach for the solution of 1D Ising model

Supervisor: Prof. S. M. Bhattacharjee

2002 - 2004

MSc in Physics

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Major Project: Properties of nanostructures of binary III-V semiconductors GaAs and GaAs1-xPx

Supervisor: Prof. R. K. Soni