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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 appointments 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.

Carbajo is known for his contributions to quantum and nonlinear photonics, free electron lasers, ultrafast phenomena, and physical biochemistry. In 2023, 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 ultrafast laser and optical physics, quantum electrodynamics, and novel radiation sources.

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).

Career

Carbajo is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a visiting professor at Stanford University. He is the founder and director of the Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative, a scientific consortium whose mission is to understand, design, and ultimately control light-driven physical processes to help solve interconnected socio-technological challenges. 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.

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, quantum, ultrafast, nonlinear optics, accelerator and X-ray sources, and chemical engineering. 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. 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.

Queered Science & Technology Center

Carbajo is the director of the Queered Science & Technology Center (QSTC) 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.

Honors and awards

References

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10. Hussein, Rana, et al. Structural dynamics in the water and proton channels of photosystem II during the S2 to S3 transition. Nature communications 12.1 (2021): 1-16.
11. Sorigué et al., Mechanism and dynamics of light-driven decarboxylation in fatty acid photodecarboxylase, Science 372, eabd5687 (2021) DOI: 10.1126/science.abd5687
12. Robert Dods et al., Ultrafast Structural Response to Charge Redistribution within a Photosynthetic Reaction Centre, Nature (2020).
13. Nogly P, Weinert T, James D, Carbajo S, Ozerov D, Furrer A, Gashi D, Borin V, Skopintsev P, Jaeger K, Nass K. Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser, Science 361, eaat0094 (2018)
14. Kern, J., Chatterjee, R., Young, I.D., Fuller, F.D., Lassalle, L., Ibrahim, M., Gul, S., Fransson, T., Brewster, A.S., Alonso-Mori, R., Hussein, R., Carbajo S., 2018. Structures of the intermediates of Kok’s photosynthetic water oxidation clock. Nature, 563(7731), p.421.
15. R Lemons, N Neveu, J Duris, A Marinelli, C Durfee, S Carbajo, Temporal shaping of narrow-band picosecond pulses via noncolinear sum-frequency mixing of dispersion-controlled pulses, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 25, 013401 (2022)
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)
20. S. Carbajo, E Granados, D Schimpf, A Sell, KH Hong, J Moses, FX Kärtner, Efficient generation of ultra-intense few-cycle radially polarized laser pulses, Optics Letters 39 (8), 2487-2490 (2014)
21. Liebster, N., Tang, J., Ratner, D., Liu, W., Vetter, S., Huang, Z. and Carbajo, S., 2018. Laguerre-Gaussian and beamlet array as second-generation laser heater profiles. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 21(9), p.090701. (2018)
22. Liang Jie Wong, Kyung-Han Hong, Sergio Carbajo, Arya Fallahi, Philippe Piot, Marin Soljačić, John D. Joannopoulos, Franz X. Kärtner & Ido Kaminer, Laser-Induced Linear-Field Particle Acceleration in Free Space, Scientific Reports, 7: 11159 (2017)
23. S. Carbajo, Emilio A. Nanni, Liang Jie Wong, Gustavo Moriena, Phillip D. Keathley, Guillaume Laurent, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Franz X. Kärtner, Direct longitudinal laser acceleration of electrons in free space, PRSTAB 19, 021303 (2016)
24. Brian Stankus, Haiwang Yong, Nikola Zotev, Jennifer M Ruddock, Darren Bellshaw, Thomas J Lane, Mengning Liang, Sébastien Boutet, Sergio Carbajo, Joseph S Robinson, Wenpeng Du, Nathan Goff, Yu Chang, Jason E Koglin, Michael P Minitti, Adam Kirrander, Peter M Weber, Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation, Nature Chemistry 11, pages716–721(2019).
25. H. Yong et al., Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering Offers a Structural View of Excited State Charge Transfer, PNAS May 11, 2021 118 (19) e2021714118
26. Stankus B, Yong H, Zotev N, Ruddock JM, Bellshaw D, Lane TJ, Liang M, Boutet S, Carbajo S, Robinson JS, Du W. Ultrafast X-ray scattering reveals vibrational coherence following Rydberg excitation. Nature Chemistry. 2019 Jul 8:1.
27. ^ 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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• 1985 births
• 21st-century American astronomers
• 21st-century American engineers
• 21st-century American physicists
• American astrophysicists
• American electrical engineers
• American people of Basque descent
• Engineers from California
• Living people
• Scientists from California