Faculty

College / Department

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

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Experimental Ultrafast Atomic Physics, Kansas State University, USA,2005.

MSc in Theoretical Plasma Physics, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1996.

PhD in Experimental Ion-Atom Collisions Physics,Western Michigan University, USA, 2002.

BSc in Physics (Major) and Math (minor), Yarmouk University, Jordan 1994.

Professional experience

Professor-American University of Sharjah-UAE (2005-Present).

Visiting Professor-Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics -Garching-Germany (2011-2012).

Research Associate and Instructor in the Physics Department at Kansas State University- Kansas- USA (2002-2005) .

Memberships

-The American Physical Society , Elected member in the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in Physics at Western Michigan University Chapter, Michigan, USA. -International Advisory Board Member, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Institute of Physics,UK.

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2340

Dr. Ali Alnaser

Professor | Head of Department

PhD, Western Michigan University, USA

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

Ali S Alnaser, Igor V Litvinyuk,Subfemtosecond directional control of chemical processes in molecules, Journal of Physics B (2017).

Christian Burger, Nora G Kling, Robert Siemering, Ali S Alnaser, Boris Bergues, Abdallah M Azzeer, Robert Moshammer, Regina de Vivie-Riedle, Matthias Kübel, Matthias F Kling,Visualization of bond rearrangements in acetylene using near single-cycle laser pulses, Faraday discussions(2016).

M. F. Kling M. Kübel, R. Siemering, C. Burger, Nora G. Kling, H. Li, A. S. Alnaser, B. Bergues, S. Zherebtsov, A. M. Azzeer, I. Ben-Itzhak, R. Moshammer, R. de Vivie-Riedle,Steering Proton Migration in Hydrocarbons Using Intense Few-Cycle Laser Fields,Physical Review Letters (2016).

A. S. Alnaser et. al., Sub-femtosecond Steering of Hydrocarbon Deprotonation, Nature Communications 5, 3800 (2014).

I.A. Bocharova, A. S. Alnaser, U. Thumm, T. Niederhausen, D. Ray, C.L. Cocke, and I.V. Litvinyuk, “Time-resolved Coulomb explosion imaging of nuclear wave-packet dynamics induced in diatomic molecules by intense few-cycle laser pulses”,Physical Review A 83, 013417 (2011).

A. S. Alnaser, et. al.,Probing excited states dynamics in CO cations using few-cycle IR and EUV laser pulse, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 194, 032046 (2009).

T.P-Colberg, A. Schiffrin, N. Karpowicz, S. Kruchinin, Ö. Sağlam, S. Keiber, O. Razskazovskaya, S. Mühlbrandt,A. S. Alnaser, M. Kübel, V. Apalkov, D. Gerster, J. Reichert, T. Wittmann, J. V. Barth, M. I. Stockman, R. Ernstorfer, V. S. Yakovlev, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, Solid-state light-phase detector,Nature Photonics 8, (2014).

H. Li,A. S. Alnaser, X.M. Tong,K.J. Betsch, M. Kübel, T. Pischke, B. Förg, J. Schötz, F. Süßmann, S. Zherebtsov, B. Bergues, A. Kessel, S.A. Trushin, A.M. Azzeer, M.F. Kling,Intensity dependence of the attosecond control of the dissociative ionization of D2, Journal of Physics B 47, 124020 (2014).

M. Kübel, A. S. Alnaser, B. Bergues, T. Pischke, J. Schmidt, Y. Deng, C. Jedrzejewski, J. Ullrich,G. G. Paulus, A. M. Azzeer, U. Kleineberg, R. Moshammer, M. F. Kling, Strong-field control of the dissociative ionizationof N2Owithnear single-cycle pulses, submitted to New Journal of Physics 16, 065017 (2014).

C.L. Cocke, A. S. Alnaser, I. Bocharova, C. Maharjan, P. Ranitovic, M. Magrakvelidze, K. Singh, S. De, and I.V. Litvinyuk, Momentum imaging with intense laser pulses, RevistaMexicana de FISICA S 56 (2) 1–10 (2010).

Conference Presentations

Ali S. Alnaser [Invited Talk]: Sub-femtosecond Directional Control of Chemical Bonds Break-up in Complex Molecules, at the 4th International Conference on Attosecond Physics, Paris, France, July 2013.

Ali S. Alnaser [ Invited Talk]:Attosecond Steering of Chemical Bond-Cleavage in Simple and Polyatomic Molecules, in the 13th International Conference on Multiphoton Processes, Shanghai, China, December 2014.

Ali S. Alnaser [Invited Talk]: Sub-Femtosecond Steering of Molecular Disintegration, at the 96th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Quebec City, Canada, May 2013.

Ali S. Alnaser [Invited Talk]: Ultrafast Control of CO Break-up using Femto- and Attosecond Lasers, at the Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 2011.

Ali S. Alnaser [Invited Talk]: Attosecond Steering of Chemical Bond-Cleavage in Simple and Polyatomic Molecules, at the 8th Asian Symposium on Intense Laser Science (ASILS 8) , National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2014

Ali S. Alnaser [Invited Talk]: CEP-Control of simple and complex molecules? fragmentation, at the Second Max Planck Center of Attosecond Science Workshop, Munich, Germany, July 2012.

Awards and Honors

Distinguished Alumni Achievement-Western Michigan University, October 2017.

"Distinguished Arab Scholar”awardby the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development in the State of Kuwait, 2011.

Awarded The Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy Grant (100,000 AED) on the project “Ultrafast Lasers andNanocatalysts: New Routes Toward Efficient and Alternative Energy”, July 2010

George E. Bradley Award for exceptional performance in all aspects of graduate work in physics at Western Michigan University (My name is engraved in Bradley Commons in Everett Tower Building at Western Michigan University)(2001).

Named All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar at Western Michigan University(2001).

Other creative/research

Ali S Alnaser, Shahin Abdel-Naby, Raza Syed, Said Sakhi, Yousef Salamin, Mehmet Egilmez, Sami El-Khatib, Nasser Hamdan, Nidhal Guessoum, Tariq Majeed,Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics/UAE 2017, Journal of Physics Conference Series (FTAPS 2017)(2017)