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College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Physics

Teaching areas

Physics :Theory and Experiment

Research areas

Combining powerful ultra fast lasers with imaging techniques in photographing and controlling experimentallythe structure as well as the dynamics of matter on extremely short time scales (femto- down to the attosecond range).

Education

PhD, Experimental Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics: Ultra Fast Science, Western Michigan University, United States, 2002

Professional experience

Professor, Physics, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2014 - Present

Visiting Porfessor, Max Planck Institute For Quantum Optics, Germany, 2011 - 2012

Assistant Professor, Physics, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2005 - 2010

Research Fellow-, Physics, Kansas State University, United States, 2002 - 2005

Research Assistant, Physics, Western Michigan University, United States, 1999 - 2002

Memberships

American Physical Society-USA, June 1999 - December 2014

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2340

Dr. Ali Alnaser

Professor

Ali Alnaser's research interests are centered around the use of ultra-strong lasers in photographing and manipulating experimentally the structure of matter on extremely short time scale. He has more than 15 years of experience teaching undergraduate physics courses and advanced physics laboratories, and has co-supervised the research work of master's and PhD students in the US, Canada and Germany. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading science journals, such as those of Nature Publishing Group, American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. He has given many invited talks and contributed more than 60 papers at international physics conferences.

Publications

Muslim Al-mahmood, Wael Abuzaid, Maen Alkhader And Ali Alnaser. Optimizing laser powder bed fusion parameters for support-free 0° overhang structures in stainless steel 316L: the case of honeycomb core sandwich structures, Progress In Additive Manufacturing, 2025

Muhammad Maqsood, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Oussama El-kadri, Hani El-kaderi And Ali Alnaser. Boosting the charge storage capability of Ni foams via femtosecond laser structuring in different solvents, Materials Chemistry And Physics, March 2025

Baha Khalil, Mostafa Nasr, Asghar Ali, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Nasser Qaddoumi, Amer Zakaria And Ali Alnaser. Femtosecond Laser-Treated SiO2 Nanocomposites for EMI Shielding and Preserved Optical Transparency, Journal Of Materials Science, 4 February 2025

Muslim Al-mahmood, Wael Abuzaid, Maen Alkhader And Ali Alnaser. Optimizing laser powder bed fusion parameters for support-free 0° overhan structures in stainless steel 316L: the case of honeycomb core sandwich structures, Progress In Additive Manufacturing, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2025

Rasha Diab, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Mahmoud Kaid, Ahmad Fawad, Hani El-kaderi, Mohammad Al-sayah, Ali Alnaser And Oussama El-kadri. Fabrication of heteroatom-doped graphene-porous organic polymer hybrid materials via femtosecond laser writing and their application in VOCs sensing, Scientific Reports, 29 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2025

Tahir Nawaz, Vinod Paul, Sidrah Younus, Shahbaz Ahmad, Mehmet Egilmez, Wael Abuzaid, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Noor Akbar, Mustafa Khamis, Ghaleb Husaini And Ali Alnaser. Biocompatibility and drug release kinetics of TiNbZrSn femtosecond laser-induced superhydrophilic structures, Applied Surface Science Advances, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2025

Shahbaz Ahmad, Mehmet Egilmez, Wael Abuzaid, Faisal Mustafa, Arunachala Kannan And Ali Alnaser. Efficient medium entropy alloy thin films as bifunctional electrodes for electrocatalytic water splitting, International Journal Of Hydrogen Energy, 2024

Muhammad Maqsood, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Vadim Ialyshev, Oussama El-kadri, Hani El-kaderi And Ali Alnaser. Femtosecond Laser-Structured Nickel Foams in Different Atmospheres as Current Collectors for Supercapacitor Applications, Acs Applied Energy Materials, 23 September 2024

Aya Baker, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Piotr Piatkowski, Mustafa Khamis And Ali Alnaser. Nonlinear optical properties and transient absorption in Hibiscus Sabdariffa dye solution probed with femtosecond pulses, Optical Materials, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023

Asghar Ali, Piotr Piatkowski, Tahir Nawaz, Shahbaz Ahmad, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Ali Alnaser. A Two-Step Femtosecond Laser-Based Deposition of Robust Corrosion-Resistant Molybdenum Oxide Coating, Materials, 1 February 2023

Shahbaz Ahmad, Mehmet Egilmez, Arunachala Kannan And Ali Alnaser. Oxygen evolution reaction enhancement of copper electrodes in alkaline medium using ultrafast femtosecond laser structuring, International Journal Of Hydrogen Energy

Shahbaz Ahmad, Mehmet Egilmez, Mehmet Orhan And Ali Alnaser. Enhancing The Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Bare Copper Electrodes through Ultrafast Femtosecond Laser Nanostructuring, 23rd World Hydrogen Energy Conference (whec2022), 2022

Shahbaz Ahmad, Waqas Ahmad, Aya Abu Baker, Mehmet Egilmez, Wael Abuzaid, Mehmet Orhan, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Ali Alnaser. Enhancement of the corrosion resistance of mild steel with femtosecond laser-nanostructuring and CrCoNi medium entropy alloy coating, November 2022

Shahbaz Ahmad, Waqas Ahmad, Aya Abubakar, Mehmet Egilmez, Wael Abuzaid, Mehmet Orhan, Taleb Ibrahim, Mustafa Khamis And Ali Alnaser. Enhancement of the corrosion resistance of mild steel with femtosecond laser- nanostructuring and CrCoNi medium entropy alloy coating, Applied Surface Science Advances, 18 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2022

Vadim Ialyshev, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Mazhar Iqbal, Mustafa Khamis And Ali Alnaser. Enhancing Gas Solubility in Water via Femtosecond Laser-Induced Plasma, Acs Omega, 16 August 2022

Atiq Kaligar, Hemnath Kumar, Asghar Ali, Wael Abuzaid, Mehmet Egilmez, Maen Alkhader, Farid Abed And Ali Alnaser. Femtosecond Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing: Current Status and Perspectives, Quantum Beam Science, 1 March 2022

Aya Abu Baker, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Mazhar Iqbal, Mikhail Pylnev, Nasser Hamdan And Ali Alnaser. Giant Third-Order Nonlinear Response of Mixed Perovskite Nanocrystals, Materials, 5 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Mehmet Egilmez, Isaac Isaac, Ali Alnaser, Zbigniew Bukowski, Janusz Karpinski, Kim Chow And Jan Jung. Instabilities of the Vortex Lattice and the Peak Effect in Single Crystal YBa2Cu4O8, Condens. Matter

R. Ganeev, S. Stremoukhov, A. Andreev And Ali Alnaser. Application of Quasi-Phase matching concept for enhancement of high-order harmonics of ultrashort laser pulses in plasmas, Applied Sciences (switzerland), 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019

Ali Alnaser, Sharjeel Khan, Rashid Ganeev And Emmanuel Stratakis. Recent advances in femtosecond laser-induced surface structuring for oil-water separation, Applied Sciences (switzerland), 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019

C. Burger, A. Atia-tul-noor, T. Schnappinger, H. Xu, P. Rosenberger, N. Haram, S. Beaulieu, F. Légaré, Ali Alnaser, R. Moshammer, R. Sang, B. Bergues, M. Schuurman, R. De Vivie-riedle, I. Litvinyuk And M. Kling. Time-resolved nuclear dynamics in bound and dissociating acetylene, Structural Dynamics, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2018

M. Kübel, C. Burger, R. Siemering, Nora Kling, B. Bergues, Ali Alnaser, I. Ben-itzhak, R. Moshammer, R. De Vivie-riedle And M. Kling. Phase- and intensity-dependence of ultrafast dynamics in hydrocarbon molecules in few-cycle laser fields, Molecular Physics, 18 August 2017

Ali Alnaser, Shahin Abdel-naby, Raza Syed, Said Sakhi, Yousef Salamin, Mehmet Egilmez, Sami El-khatib, Nasser Hamdan, Nidhal Guessoum And Tariq Majeed. Preface, 11 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Ali Alnaser, Shahin Abdel Naby, Raza Syed, Said Sakhi, Yousef Salamin, Mehmet Egilmez, Sami El-khatib, Nasser Hamdan, Nidhal Guessoum And Tariq Majeed. Preface, 11 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Ali Alnaser And Igor Litvinyuk. Subfemtosecond directional control of chemical processes in molecules, Journal Of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics, 13 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017

M. Kübel, R. Siemering, C. Burger, Nora Kling, H. Li, Ali Alnaser, B. Bergues, S. Zherebtsov, A. Azzeer, I. Ben-itzhak, R. Moshammer, R. De Vivie-riedle And M. Kling. Steering Proton Migration in Hydrocarbons Using Intense Few-Cycle Laser Fields, Physical Review Letters, 12 May 2016

Christian Burger, Nora Kling, Robert Siemering, Ali Alnaser, Boris Bergues, Abdallah Azzeer, Robert Moshammer, Regina De Vivie-riedle, Matthias Kübel And Matthias Kling. Visualization of bond rearrangements in acetylene using near single-cycle laser pulses, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016

Vincent Wanie, Heide Ibrahim, Samuel Beaulieu, Nicolas Thiré, Bruno Schmidt, Yunpei Deng, Ali Alnaser, Igor Litvinyuk, Xiao Tong And François Légaré. Coherent control of D2/H2 dissociative ionization by a mid-infrared two-color laser field, Journal Of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics, 16 December 2015

H. Li, Ali Alnaser, X. Tong, K. Betsch, M. Kübel, T. Pischke, B. Förg, J. Schötz, F. Süßmann, S. Zherebtsov, B. Bergues, A. Kessel, S. Trushin, A. Azzeer And M. Kling. Intensity dependence of the attosecond control of the dissociative ionization of D2, Journal Of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics, 28 June 2014

Ali Alnaser, M. Kübel, R. Siemering, B. Bergues, Nora Kling, K. Betsch, Y. Deng, J. Schmidt, Z. Alahmed, A. Azzeer, J. Ullrich, I. Ben-itzhak, R. Moshammer, U. Kleineberg, F. Krausz, R. De Vivie-riedle And M. Kling. Subfemtosecond steering of hydrocarbon deprotonation through superposition of vibrational modes, Nature Communications, 8 May 2014

R. Siemering, M. Kübel, B. Bergues, Ali Alnaser, M. Kling And R. De Vivie-riedle. Sub-femtosecond steering of carbonhydrogen bonds, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

M. Kübel, K. Betsch, Nora Kling, Ali Alnaser, J. Schmidt, U. Kleineberg, Y. Deng, I. Ben-itzhak, G. Paulus, T. Pfeifer, J. Ullrich, R. Moshammer, M. Kling And B. Bergues. Non-sequential double ionization of Ar: From the single- to the many-cycle regime, New Journal Of Physics, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

M. Kübel, Ali Alnaser, B. Bergues, T. Pischke, J. Schmidt, Y. Deng, C. Jendrzejewski, J. Ullrich, G. Paulus, A. Azzeer, U. Kleineberg, R. Moshammer And M. Kling. Strong-field control of the dissociative ionization of N2O with near-single-cycle pulses, New Journal Of Physics, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014