Gopal K. Shenoy

Professional experience

• 2002-present: Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2002-present: Senior Scientific Advisor, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2001: Interim Associate Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1999-2001: Senior Scientific Director, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1989-1999: Division Director, Experimental Facilities Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1988-1989: Associate Division Director, Advanced Photon Source Project, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1984-1988: Group Leader, Advanced Photon Source Project, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1984-1988: Group Leader, Synchrotron Radiation Studies Group, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1981-2002: Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1976-1981: Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1974-1976: Visiting Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1972-1974: Chargé de Recherche, Centre de Recherches Nucleaires, C.N.R.S., Strasbourg, France
• 1971: Visiting Scientist (part-time), Technical University of Helsinki, Otaniemi, Finland
• 1970-1972: Gastforcher, Phyik Department E-15, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
• 1967-1970: Postdoctoral Appointee, Solid State Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1966-1967: Visiting Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
• 1964-1966: Senior Research Associate, The Institute of Science, University of Bombay, India, sponsored by the National Bureau of Standards, Washington D. C., USA
• 1961-1963: Lecturer in Physics, The Institute of Science, University of Bombay, India

Education

• 1965: Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, University of Bombay, Bombay
• 1961: M.Sc. in Solid State Physics, University of Bombay, Bombay
• 1959: B.Sc. (Hons), Physics and Mathematics, University of Bombay, Bombay

Selected honors and awards

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow, American Physical Society
• 1991: Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Chapter of the India Physics Association
• 1986: University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance for Developing the Concept, Design and Plan for the Advanced Photon Source
• Mössbauer Century Club (with more than 200 publications) as of August 2006

Selected professional activities

• 2007-present: Science Advisory Committee, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Baton Rouge
• 2006-present: Project Advisory Committee, NSLS -II, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• 2006-present: Science Advisory Committee, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC
• 2004: PETRA-III Beamline Selection and Prioritization Panel, DESY, Hamburg
• 2002-present: International Science Advisory Committee, Australian Synchrotron
• 1989-92: Editorial Board of the Review of Scientific Instruments
• 1973-1983: Editorial Board of the Journal of Mössbauer Effect Data
• 1974-85: Commission under International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Research interests

• Application of synchrotron radiation to condensed matter physics and nanoscience
• Development of new synchrotron radiation techniques
• New-generation synchrotron radiation and free-electron laser sources

Recent publications (from more than 300 in print)

• "Getting to the core of the problem: Origin of the luminescence from (Mg,Zn)O heterostructured nanowires," Richard A. Rosenberg, G. K. Shenoy, Matthew F. Chisholm, Li-Chia Tien, David Norton, and Steven Pearton, Nano Letters (2007)
• "Time-resolved x-ray excited optical luminescence characterization of one-dimensional Si-CdSe heterostructures," R.A. Rosenberg, G.K. Shenoy, X.H. Sun, T.K. Sham, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 243102 (2006)
• "Anisotropic x-ray absorption effects in the optical luminescence yield of ZnO nanostructures," R.A. Rosenberg, G.K. Shenoy, L.-C. Tien, D. Norton, S. Pearton, X.H. Sun, T.K. Sham, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 093118 (2006)
• "Emerging areas of scientific research using ultrashort-pulse x-ray sources," G.K. Shenoy, Proc. SPIE 5917, 591709 (2005)
• "Determination of the local structure of luminescent sites in ZnS nanowires using x-ray excited optical luminescence," R.A. Rosenberg, G.K. Shenoy, F. Heigl, S.-T. Lee, P.-S.G. Kim, X.-T. Zhou, T.K. Sham, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 253105 (2005)
• "Variable-period undulators for synchrotron radiation," G. K. Shenoy, J. W. Lewellen, Deming Shu and N. A. Vinokurova, U.S.Patent No. 6,868,998 (2005)