Sergio Carbajo

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Sergio Carbajo
Sergio Carbajo Garcia
Born (1985-10-04) 4 October 1985 (age 38)
Donostia
Nationality Basque-Spanish-American
EducationM.Eng. in Telecom Engineering, M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. in Physics
Alma mater Universidad de Navarra, Colorado State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Hamburg, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron
Occupation Scientist & Educator
Known forAssistant professor at the UCLA Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

Sergio Carbajo (born October 4, 1985) is a Basque-Spanish-American scientist and educator, musician and composer (alias Julian Telleria), and creative writer. He is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with apppointments in the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Physics & Astronomy departments. He is also a scientist at Stanford University’s Photon Science Division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. [1]

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Carbajo is known for his contributions to quantum and nonlinear photonics, free electron lasers, ultrafast phenomena, and physical biochemistry. 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. He is a topical editor of High Power Laser Science and Engineering [9] .

Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative

The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative's (QLMC) focus is on the quantum coherent interplay between light and matter as a fundamental building block of a wide range of quantum phenomena of relevance to quantum information sciences and to determine and control functional properties of physical and biological systems. The QLMC areas of study include life sciences, [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] quantum, ultrafast, nonlinear optics, [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] accelerator and X-ray sources, [21] [22] [23] and chemical engineering. [24] [25] [26] 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. [27] 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. [27]

Queered Science & Technology Center

Carbajo is the director of the Queered Science & Technology Center (QSTC) [28] at UCLA. The QSTC exists to underscore the pedagogical and epistemological centrality of critical interdisciplinarity in STEM. It employs queer, radical feminist, and black and indigenous epistemologies to upend pervasive sexual, gendered, racialized, anthropocentric, and able-bodies logics in the physical sciences and science & technology policy. The QSTC employs critical frameworks to challenge and rethink knowledge production and introduces new methodological resources for critical interdisciplinarity in traditional STEM studies. [29] [30] [31] [32]

Honors and awards

YearAward/Honor
2024Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award [33] [34]
2023 IEEE Senior Member
2023 UCLA 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 [35]
2021 Sigma Xi Member
2020 Optica Senior Member
2020OSA Foundation Congressional Policy Fellow
2019 Japan 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
2010 Colorado State University Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence Scholar
2008-2009Universidad de Valladolid FARO Global Scholar

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  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ 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)
  18. ↑ 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)
  19. ↑ S. Carbajo, J Schulte et al, Efficient narrowband terahertz generation in cryogenically cooled periodically poled lithium niobate, Opt. Lett. 40 (24), 5762 (2016)
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  27. 1 2 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)
  28. ↑ Carbajo, Sergio. Queered Science & Technology Center: Volume 1. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12318 (2023)
  29. ↑ Carbajo (editor), Colonial Narratives in Urban Mapping and Dynamics, UCLA QSTC 2023
  30. ↑ Carbajo (editor), On Linguistics of (Inclusive) STEM Education, UCLA QSTC 2023
  31. ↑ Carbajo (editor), On the Power of Storytelling and Logics to Affect Scientific Progress, UCLA QSTC 2023
  32. ↑ Carbajo (editor), On the Human-Machine Embodiment of Knowledge, UCLA QSTC 2023
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