VAHAN SENEKERIMYAN

EDUCATION

	Postdoc, California Institute of Technology

	PhD, Physical Chemistry, University of California Irvine

	BS, Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

EXPERIENCE

06/'08 - present	Senior Scientist, Cymer Inc.	San Diego, CA, 92127

	Graduate Student/Postdoc, UCI/Caltech
	Ultrafast laser systems: Ti:Sapphire oscillator, Ti:Sapphire based chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system, optical parametric amplifiers (OPA), pulse compressors, and pulse characterization techniques. Laser spectroscopy methods: Four-wave mixing (FWM): transient grating, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). Laser induced fluorescence (LIF), transient absorption (TA), linear absorption and Raman. Instrument control, data acquisition, scientific apparatus, and interfacing to PC. Vacuum technologies and mass spectrometry: vacuum systems including cryostats, molecular beams coupled to time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer, matrix-assisted laser desorption and ionization (MALDI) spectrometry.

SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS

Photonics, biophotonics, optics, lasers, ultrafast spectroscopy, development of femtosecond laser systems, LabView, Mathematica, MATLAB

PUBLICATIONS

V. Senekerimyan, I. Goldschleger, and V.A. Apkarian, "Vibronic dynamics of I2 trapped in amorphous ice: Coherent following of cage relaxation", J. Chem. Phys., 127, 1 (2007).

I. Goldschleger, V. Senekerimyan, and V.A. Apkarian, Recoherence and emergence of wavefunctions from the portrait of a dissipative quantum oscillator: Br2 encaged in ice, Science (submitted)

V.A. Senekerimyan, H. Seferyan, A. Wark, D. Whitmore, R. Zadoyan, R.M. Corn, and V.A. Apkarian, Cooling Times of Metal Nanoparticles Measured Through Transient Grating Spectroscopy: Silver Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solutions, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2007

I.U. Goldschleger, V. Senekerimyan, M. Krage, H.Ye. Seferyan, K.C. Janda, and V.A. Apkarian, Quenched by Ice: Transient Grating Measurements of Vibronic Dynamics in Bromine-Doped Ice, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 204507 (2006).