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About the Editors
Dr. Manik Pradhan received his Ph.D. in Chemical
Physics from the group of Professor Andrew OrrEwing, FRS in 2008 from the University of Bristol, UK,
having been awarded a prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin
Fellowship. Subsequently, he moved to the University
of Cambridge, UK for his postdoctoral work (2008–
2010) in the group of Professor Richard Lambert after
receiving the Isaac Newton Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship from Trinity College, UK. Hereafter, he came
to work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2010–
2011) in the group of Professor Richard Zare, FRS
in Stanford University, USA. He also worked as a
Visiting Research Assistant (2004–2005) at the Institute
of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia
Sinica, Taiwan. Currently he is leading many multidisciplinary research projects as a Principal Investigator (PI) as well as a Co-investigator. His research
group focuses on the cutting-edge research in interdisciplinary areas involving experimental laser spectroscopy, biomedical and, environmental sciences along
with developments of new-generation optical cavitybased laser spectroscopy techniques. Dr. Pradhan has
published more than 50 research articles in international
peer-reviewed journals and has several patents to his
name.
Prof. Dr. Arnulf Materny recieved his Ph.D. in 1992
with distinction under the supervision of pioneer spectroscopist Prof. Wolfgang Kiefer at the University of
Würzburg, Germany. Further, he was a postdoc at
Caltech, Pasadena, USA. There, he started to work in
the field of “femtosecond spectroscopy” in the group
of Nobel Laureate Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail. Currently,
Prof. Materny is serving as a Full Professor of Chemical Physics at the Jacobs University, Bremen Germany.
His reserach intrests cover the applications of freqencny
and time domain spectroscopic techniques in various
molecules and materials. Prof. Materny has received
several awards, including Kekule Fellowship and the
Hoechst Prize for his Ph.D. work, a Faculty Award by
the JMU and the Heisenberg Fellowship by the DFG
for his postdoc research. More than 16 Ph.D.s and 15
post doc reserachers including many Humboldt fellow
succesfully completed his project under his guidance.
About the Editors
Dr. Manik Pradhan received his Ph.D. in Chemical
Physics from the group of Professor Andrew OrrEwing, FRS in 2008 from the University of Bristol, UK,
having been awarded a prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin
Fellowship. Subsequently, he moved to the University
of Cambridge, UK for his postdoctoral work (2008–
2010) in the group of Professor Richard Lambert after
receiving the Isaac Newton Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship from Trinity College, UK. Hereafter, he came
to work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2010–
2011) in the group of Professor Richard Zare, FRS
in Stanford University, USA. He also worked as a
Visiting Research Assistant (2004–2005) at the Institute
of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia
Sinica, Taiwan. Currently he is leading many multidisciplinary research projects as a Principal Investigator (PI) as well as a Co-investigator. His research
group focuses on the cutting-edge research in interdisciplinary areas involving experimental laser spectroscopy, biomedical and, environmental sciences along
with developments of new-generation optical cavitybased laser spectroscopy techniques. Dr. Pradhan has
published more than 50 research articles in international
peer-reviewed journals and has several patents to his
name.
Prof. Dr. Arnulf Materny recieved his Ph.D. in 1992
with distinction under the supervision of pioneer spectroscopist Prof. Wolfgang Kiefer at the University of
Würzburg, Germany. Further, he was a postdoc at
Caltech, Pasadena, USA. There, he started to work in
the field of “femtosecond spectroscopy” in the group
of Nobel Laureate Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail. Currently,
Prof. Materny is serving as a Full Professor of Chemical Physics at the Jacobs University, Bremen Germany.
His reserach intrests cover the applications of freqencny
and time domain spectroscopic techniques in various
molecules and materials. Prof. Materny has received
several awards, including Kekule Fellowship and the
Hoechst Prize for his Ph.D. work, a Faculty Award by
the JMU and the Heisenberg Fellowship by the DFG
for his postdoc research. More than 16 Ph.D.s and 15
post doc reserachers including many Humboldt fellow
succesfully completed his project under his guidance.