Shima Rajabali
Assistant professor at Delft University of Technology,
Associate Research fellow at Harvard University.
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Education/Employment
September 2024-Present: Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and Associate Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA
June 2023-September 2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA
Project: Integrated photonics on Lithium niobate for classical and quantum applications
Advisor: Prof. Marko Lončar
March 2022-April 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Project: On-chip terahertz spectrometer on Lithium niobate
Advisor: Prof. Cristina-Ileana Benea Chelmus
September 2016-December 2021: Doctor of Sc., Physics, at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Thesis: Ultrastrong light-matter coupling at the nanoscale
Advisors: Prof. Jerome Faist and Prof. Giacomo Scalari
September 2014-August 2016: M.Sc. with distinction, Semiconductor Devices Technology, at University of Tehran, IR
Thesis: Impurity-/phonon-limited mobility calculation for few-layer MoS2
Advisors: Prof. Mahdi Pourfath and Prof. Shams Mohajerzadeh
- Internship at Quantum Optoelectronics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (March –
May 2016) - Internship at Dipartimento Politecnico di Ingegneria ed Architettura, University
of Udine, Italy (May – July 2016)
September 2008-July 2013: B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Electronics), at University of Tehran, IR
Thesis: Light emitting diodes using Silicon nano-structure
Advisor: Prof. Shams Mohajerzadeh
Grants and Fellowships
- Delft Technology Fellowship (DTF) – Accepted in 2024 (Delft, The Netherlands)
- Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Postdoctoral Fellowship – Accepted in 2023 (Boston, USA)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship – Accepted in 2022 (Switzerland)
- Hans Eggenberger Foundation Project Fund: Amount 100 KCHF for “Towards a compact terahertz transmitter with an integrated photonic-based dual-wavelength light source on lithium niobate ” – Accepted in 2022 (Switzerland)
Awards and Achievement
- European Physical Society Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (EPS-QEOD) Thesis Prize – CLEO Europe 2023 (Münich, Germany)
- Hans Eggenberger Ph.D. Thesis Prize – 2022 (Zürich, Switzerland)
- Best Student Presentation Awards, 1st Rank – IRMMW-THz 2021 (Chengdu, China)
- Best Student Presentation Awards – CLEO Europe 2021 (Munich, Germany)
- Outstanding Student Paper – IRMMW-THz 2019 (Paris, France)
- 1st Rank Master Student in the Engineering Faculty – 2016 (Tehran, Iran)
Teaching Experiences
- Basic integrated photonic components fundamentals and simulations
- Transducers for Classical and Quantum Applications
- Physics Laboratory
- Quantum physics for electrical engineering students
- Quantum Electronics
- Theory and Technology of Device Fabrication
- Electrical Circuits I & II
- Electronics II
- Linear Control Systems
- Microprocessors
Publications
Check the Publications page by clicking here.
Keep calm and smile 🙂
Shima Rajabali 