Education and early career

Dr. Ali has received M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in physics at the department of physics Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He has concluded his Ph.D. thesis entitled: Novel applications of metamaterials and plasmonics to optical tweezing: directional scattering, chiral resolution and pulling forces in 2020. He has sixteen first author paper including four single author.  

Research Interests

Optical manipulation of chiral sphere using tweezers where we have developed the methods for characterization and chiral resolution of single chiral nanocrystals.
I also worked on the optimization of the spin hall shift of light using chiral sphere.  
Current projects: Space time metamaterials, Beam shifts near the Exceptional points

Education Profile

• Master and M. Phil from QUAID Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2012 and 214, respectivley.  

• PhD from Fereral University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016-2020)

• Postdoc: UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil (2020-2022)

• Postdoc: HKUST Hong Kong, (2022-2023)

• Postdoc: KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (2023-present)

Selected Publications

• R. Ali, Ying Wu, "Enantioselective transport of chiral spheres using focused femtosecond laser pulses," Optics Express 31, 29716-29729 (2023).

• R. Ali*, "Chirality-assisted spin hall effect of in the vicinity of the quasi-anti-dual symmetry mode of a chiral sphere," Phys. Rev. A 106, 063508 (2022)

• R. Ali*, F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa, R. S. Dutra, P. A. Maia Neto, "Enantioselective manipulation of single chiral nanoparticles using optical tweezers," Nanoscale 12, 5031 (2020).

• R. Ali*, R. S. Dutra, F. A. Pinheiro, P. A. Maia Neto, "Enantioselection and chiral sorting of single microspheres using optical pulling forces," Optics Letters 46, 1640 (2021).

• R. Ali*, F. A. Pinheiro, R. S. Dutra, P. A. Maia Neto, "Tailoring optical pulling forces in composite spheres using plane waves," Physical Review A 102, 023514 (2020).