Sergio Carbajo

Sergio Carbajo (born October 4, 1985) is a Basque-Spanish-American scientist and educator. He is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the UCLA Physics & Astronomy departments and visiting professor at Stanford University’s Photon Science Division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.[1]

Sergio Carbajo
Born (1985-10-04) 4 October 1985
NationalityBasque-Spanish-American
EducationBS in Telecom Engineering, M. SC in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. in Physics
Alma materUniversidad de Navarra, Colorado State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Hamburg, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron
OccupationScientist & Educator
Known forAssistant professor at the UCLA Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

In 2022, Carbajo received the Young Investigator Research Program Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in recognition of his work at the intersection between ultrast laser and optical physics, quantum electrodynamics, and novel radiation sources.[2]

Education

Carbajo obtained a M.Eng. from Tecnun, University of Navarra in Telecom Engineering in 2009. He holds an M.Sc. from Colorado State University (2012) and Ph.D. in physics from University of Hamburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (2015).[3]

Career

Carbajo is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a visiting professor at Stanford University.[3] He is the founder and director of the Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative,[4][5][6] a scientific consortium whose mission is to understand, design, and ultimately control light-driven physical processes to help solve interconnected socio-technological challenges.[7][8] Carbajo is also the Director of Diversity at the UCLA ECE department and the founder and director of the Queered Science and Technology Center (QSTC) at UCLA.

Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative

The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative’s areas of study include life sciences,[9][10][11][12][13] quantum, ultrafast, nonlinear optics,[14][15][16][17][18][19] accelerator and X-ray sources,[20][21][22] and chemical engineering.[23][24][25] The cooperative seeks to help solve major life and energy challenges by examining the cooperative interaction between photons and matter, and its methodologies are informed by a critically interdisciplinary approach to the science and applications of light by design.[26] Carbajo has established a framework for filming the quantum world by developing novel instruments that orchestrate and capture images of electronic, atomic, and molecular motion in action with unprecedented precision. He is an active faculty member of the California NanoSystems Institute and the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering.[26]

Queered Science & Technology Center

The QSTC[27] at UCLA apprehends the centrality of critical interdisciplinarity in STEM and thus employs queer, radical feminist, and black epistemologies to upend sexual, gendered, racialized, anthropocentric, and able-bodies logics in the physical sciences. The QSTC employs critical framework to challenge and rethink knowledge production and introduces new methodological resources for critical interdisciplinarity in traditional STEM studies.[28][29][30][31]

Honors and awards
YearAward/Honor
2023IEEE Senior Member
2023UCLA Innovation Fellow
2023AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award
2021Co-recipient of Horizon Prize from the (UK) Royal Society of Chemistry
2021SPIE Early Career Achievement Award in recognition of capacity to unify ultrafast and quantum optics with X-ray science to advance the mission of Basic Energy Sciences facilities[32]
2021Sigma Xi Member
2020Optica Senior Member
2020OSA Foundation Congressional Policy Fellow
2019Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow at RIKEN Attosecond Research Center
2018SRI Young Scientist Award
2015PIER Helmholtz Foundation Dissertation Award
2014PIER Helmholtz Graduate School Mobility Award for Young Investigators
2014US Particle Accelerator School Fellow
2011Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Grant Awardee
2010-2014Basque Research Excellence Scholarship
2010Colorado State University Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence Scholar
2008-2009Universidad de Valladolid FARO Global Scholar

References
  1. "Sergio Carbajo Assistant Professor". med.stanford.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  2. "UCLA Engineering Professor Receives Air Force Young Investigator Research Award". med.stanford.edu. 28 March 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  3. "Sergio Carbajo CASUAL - NONEXEMPT, SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY". samueli.ucla.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  4. "Physicist Wesley Sims '09 Steers $900,000 in Grants to Advance Quantum Research". inside.morehouse.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  5. Carbajo, Sergio (9 June 2022). "Executive Summary of The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative". escholarship.org. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  6. "Sergio Carbajo CASUAL - NONEXEMPT, SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  7. "Sergio Carbajo UCLA and Stanford". Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  8. "Sergio Carbajo Stanford University SU • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory PhD". Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  9. Hussein, Rana, et al. Structural dynamics in the water and proton channels of photosystem II during the S2 to S3 transition. Nature communications 12.1 (2021): 1-16.
  10. Sorigué et al., Mechanism and dynamics of light-driven decarboxylation in fatty acid photodecarboxylase, Science 372, eabd5687 (2021) DOI: 10.1126/science.abd5687
  11. Robert Dods et al., Ultrafast Structural Response to Charge Redistribution within a Photosynthetic Reaction Centre, Nature (2020).
  12. Nogly P, Weinert T, James D, Carbajo S, Ozerov D, Furrer A, Gashi D, Borin V, Skopintsev P, Jaeger K, Nass K. Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser, Science 361, eaat0094 (2018)
  13. Kern, J., Chatterjee, R., Young, I.D., Fuller, F.D., Lassalle, L., Ibrahim, M., Gul, S., Fransson, T., Brewster, A.S., Alonso-Mori, R., Hussein, R., Carbajo S., 2018. Structures of the intermediates of Kok’s photosynthetic water oxidation clock. Nature, 563(7731), p.421.
  14. R Lemons, N Neveu, J Duris, A Marinelli, C Durfee, S Carbajo, Temporal shaping of narrow-band picosecond pulses via noncolinear sum-frequency mixing of dispersion-controlled pulses, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 25, 013401 (2022)
  15. Randy Lemons, Wei Liu, Josef C. Frisch, Steve Smith, Joseph Robinson, Alan Fry, and Sergio Carbajo, Integrated Structured Light Architectures, Scientific Reports volume 11, 796 (2021).
  16. Jingyi Tang, Randy Lemons, Wei Liu, Sharon Vetter, Timothy Maxwell, Franz-Josef Decker, Alberto Lutman, Jacek Krzywinski, Gabriel Marcus, Stefan Moeller, Zhirong Huang, Daniel Ratner, and Sergio Carbajo, Laguerre-Gaussian Mode Laser Heater for Microbunching Instability Suppression in Free Electron Lasers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 134801(2020)
  17. Randy Lemons, Wei Liu, Irene Fernandez De Fuentes, Stefan Droste, Günter Steinmeyer, Charles G Durfee and Sergio Carbajo, Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of an Er: Yb: glass laser via feed-forward technique, Optics Letters 44, pp. 5610-5613 (2019)
  18. S. Carbajo, J Schulte et al, Efficient narrowband terahertz generation in cryogenically cooled periodically poled lithium niobate, Opt. Lett. 40 (24), 5762 (2016)
  19. S. Carbajo, E Granados, D Schimpf, A Sell, KH Hong, J Moses, FX Kärtner, Efficient generation of ultra-intense few-cycle radially polarized laser pulses, Optics Letters 39 (8), 2487-2490 (2014)
  20. Liebster, N., Tang, J., Ratner, D., Liu, W., Vetter, S., Huang, Z. and Carbajo, S., 2018. Laguerre-Gaussian and beamlet array as second-generation laser heater profiles. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 21(9), p.090701. (2018)
  21. Liang Jie Wong, Kyung-Han Hong, Sergio Carbajo, Arya Fallahi, Philippe Piot, Marin Soljačić, John D. Joannopoulos, Franz X. Kärtner & Ido Kaminer, Laser-Induced Linear-Field Particle Acceleration in Free Space, Scientific Reports, 7: 11159 (2017)
  22. S. Carbajo, Emilio A. Nanni, Liang Jie Wong, Gustavo Moriena, Phillip D. Keathley, Guillaume Laurent, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Franz X. Kärtner, Direct longitudinal laser acceleration of electrons in free space, PRSTAB 19, 021303 (2016)
  23. Brian Stankus, Haiwang Yong, Nikola Zotev, Jennifer M Ruddock, Darren Bellshaw, Thomas J Lane, Mengning Liang, Sébastien Boutet, Sergio Carbajo, Joseph S Robinson, Wenpeng Du, Nathan Goff, Yu Chang, Jason E Koglin, Michael P Minitti, Adam Kirrander, Peter M Weber, Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation, Nature Chemistry 11, pages716–721(2019).
  24. H. Yong et al., Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering Offers a Structural View of Excited State Charge Transfer, PNAS May 11, 2021 118 (19) e2021714118
  25. Stankus B, Yong H, Zotev N, Ruddock JM, Bellshaw D, Lane TJ, Liang M, Boutet S, Carbajo S, Robinson JS, Du W. Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation. Nature Chemistry. 2019 Jul 8:1.
  26. S. Carbajo, Light by design: emerging frontiers in ultrafast photon sciences and light-matter interactions, invited perspective article in Journal of Physics: Photonics, Volume 3, Number 3 (2021)
  27. Carbajo, Sergio. Queered Science & Technology Center: Volume 1. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12318 (2023)
  28. Carbajo (editor), Colonial Narratives in Urban Mapping and Dynamics, UCLA QSTC 2023
  29. Carbajo (editor), On Linguistics of (Inclusive) STEM Education, UCLA QSTC 2023
  30. Carbajo (editor), On the Power of Storytelling and Logics to Affect Scientific Progress, UCLA QSTC 2023
  31. Carbajo (editor), On the Human-Machine Embodiment of Knowledge, UCLA QSTC 2023
  32. "Sergio Carbajo: The 2021 Early Career Achievement Award". spie.org. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
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