Dr Suman Anand

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Dr. Anand is currently a Faculty for Future fellow; (a programme launched by the Schlumberger Foundation) in the Applied Optical Manipulation Group of the Electronic Engineering and Physics Division. She is engaged in the investigation of new techniques to explore aerosol properties by making use of optical tweezers. She is engaged in optical trapping and manipulating aerosols and then freezing it under controlled laboratory conditions. Ultimately, her work may help in resolving environmental issues such as climate change, global radiation uncertainty and the effects of aerosols on cloud formations.

Dr Anand received a Ph.D in Physics from the Banaras Hindu University, India. She obtained senior research Fellowship from the CSIR, Indian Government that enabled her to pursue her Ph.D studies.. During PhD, she was focused upon thin film deposition and its characterisation by various techniques such as SEM, TEM,etc. Suman has experience of working in a number of research fields. In her first post-doctoral studies at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in New Delhi, where she worked on optical coherence and spectral switch. In 2004 she worked as PI of an independent project funded by DST,India. In 2006 and 2009, she was awarded Royal Society of Edinburgh and Leverhulme visiting fellowships respectively. During 2011-2012, Suman was also awarded a research grant from Royal Society to support her present fellowship at Dundee.

Professional Biography

Faculty for Future Fellowship (Schlumber), 2010-present
Royal Society research grant, 2011-2012
Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship, 2009
International exchange award from ICAM and LC2CAM, University of Colorado,USA, 2008
Royal Society of Edinburgh visiting Fellowship, 2006
PhD (Banaras Hindu University, India, 1999) "Investigation of high temperature superconducting cuprate films in regard to their synthesis, structural/microstructural superconducting characteristics”
MSc (Banaras Hindu University, India, 1992), Solid State Physics

Research Interests

Holographic Optical tweezers
Optical phase singularity
Microscopy
Aerosols/Colloids
Organic Solar Cells

Publications

The dynamics of coalescence of aerosol particles in an optical trap, (2012) N. S. Mistry, R. Power, S. Anand, D. McGloin, A. Almohamedi, M. Downie, J. B. Wills, J. P. Reid, A. J. Hudson, J Phys Chem A (Accepted) 2012, 27th Aug.
Optically written optofluidic ice channels, S. Anand, A. Engelbrecht and D. McGloin , J of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics (Accepted) (2010).
Non contact optical control of multiple particles and defects using holographic optical trapping with phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator, Suman Anand, Rahul P. Trivedi, Gabriel Stockdale, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7232, 723208, (2009).
Generation of Gaussian beam and its anomalous behaviour, Suman Anand, Optics Communication, Vol.282, Issue 7, p. 1335-1339 (2009).
Optical Manipulation of Airborne Particles: Techniques and Applications, David McGloin, Daniel R. Burnham, Michael D. Summers, Daniel Rudd, Neil Dewar and Suman Anand, Faraday Discussions, 137,335-350 (2008).
Experimental study of spectral anomalies in a Fraunhofer diffraction pattern, Suman Anand and H.C.Kandpal, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics , vol. 6, pp.177-179 (2004).
Experimental study of the anomalous behavior of Spectra near phase singularity Suman Anand and H.C.Kandpal, Optics Communications, Vol 232/1-6 pp 69-75 (2004).
Experimental observation of phenomenon of spectral switch for a class of partially coherent light, H.C. Kandpal, Suman Anand and J.S. Vaishya, J. of IEEE Quantum Electronics, 38, 336-339, (2002)
Experimental study of the phenomenon of 1XN spectral switches due to diffraction of partially coherent light, Suman Anand, B.K.Yadav and H.C.Kandpal, J. of Optical Society of America A 19, 2223-2228, (2002).