Assoc. Prof. Andon Rangelov
Address:Theoretical Physics Division, room v39
Department of Physics,
Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski,
5 James Bourchier Blvd, Sofia 1164, Bulgaria
phone: (+359) 2 8161659
email: rangelovphys.uni-sofia.bg
web page: http://www.phys.uni- sofia.bg/~rangelov/
Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Thesis title: Coherent control of quantum systems with pulsed fields (download)
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 2004 – 2008 - Bachelor's Degree, Theoretical Physics,
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 1998 – 2003
Research experience:
- Associate Professor
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski
October 2015 – Present Sofia, Bulgaria
Teaching duties have been concerned with the following courses:
Quantum Transitions (lectures and exercises for Master's program);
Atomic and Quantum Optics (lectures and exercises for Master's program);
Quantum Mechanics (exercises for students in the major of Engineering Physics);
Electrodynamics (lectures and exercises for students in the major of Engineering Physics).
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
August 2014 – October 2016 (2 years 3 months) Singapore
Collaborator: Dr. Elica Kyoseva
Research projects: composite and adiabatic polarization wave plates, composite polarization rotators, pulse shaping with composite birefringent crystals
- Assistant Professor
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski
March 2009 – September 2015 (6 years 7 months) Sofia, Bulgaria
Teaching duties have been concerned with the following courses:
Quantum Transitions (lecture and exercises for Master's program);
Atomic and Quantum Optics (lecture and exercises for Master's program);
Quantum Mechanics (exercises for students in the major of Engineering Physics);
Electrodynamics (exercises for students in the major of Engineering Physics).
- Research visit
Technische Universität Darmstadt
July 2014 – August 2014 (2 months) Darmstadt, Germany
Collaborator: Prof. Thomas Halfmann
Research: Composite pulses in nonlinear optics
- Research visit
Australian National University
September 2013 – September 2013 (1 month) Canberra, Australia
Collaborator: Prof. Dragomir Neshev
Research: Quantum-optical analogues
- Research visit
Universität Kassel
September 2008 – November 2008 (3 months) Kassel, Germany
Coherent quantum control research project under supervision of Prof. Thomas Baumert and Dr. Matthias Wollenhaupt
- Research visit
University of Pisa
March 2007 – May 2007 (3 months) Pisa, Italy
Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage into continuum research project under supervision of Prof. Ennio Arimondo
- Research visit
University of Sussex
March 2004 – May 2004 (3 months) Brighton, United Kingdom
Coherent quantum control research project under supervision of Prof. Barry Garraway
- Research Fellow
Technical University Kaiserslautern
January 2003 – December 2003 (1 year) Kaiserslautern, Germany
Adiabatic control research project under supervision of Prof. Klaas Bergmann
Skills:
- Wolfram Mathematica
- Latex, HTML, MS Office
Memberships:
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Member of the “Optical Society of America”
Degrees and Awards:
- In June 2014 Dr. Rangelov was awarded as the best young scientist of Bulgaria for 2013 (Pitagor award, which is the highest Science award in Bulgaria)
- In March 2012 Dr. Rangelov was awarded as the best young scientist of the Sofia University for 2011.
- In December 2008 Dr. Rangelov was awarded from foundation Evrika as the best young scientist in
Bulgaria for 2008.
Research Keywords:
- coherent control, quantum systems, pulsed fields, quantum states, atomic optics, stimulated
Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), Rapid Adiabatic Passage (RAP), coherent superposition, quantum
dynamics of simple systems, coherent interactions of laser fields, atoms and molecules, rotating-wave
approximation, adiabatic basis, adiabatic approximation, two-state Schrödinger equation,
Morris-Shore transformation, Householder reflection, Bloch equation, sum frequency generation, down
conversion, invisible cloaking, composite pulses, wireless energy transfer.
Referee of Scientific Journals:
- Scientific Reports
- Optics Letters
- Physical Review A
- Applied Optics
- Optics Express
- Optics Communications
Supervising Graduate Students
- A co-supervisor of one PhD Student and supervisor of one Master Student at Theoretical Physics Division, Department of Physics, Sofia University, Bulgaria