I am an Iranian graduate student in the group of "Photon Scattering" at AMOLF, working under supervision of Ad Lagendijk.

My research topic is about observation of Anderson localization of light in strongly-scattering media. I am also interested in Anisotropic diffusion of light and optical non-linearity in scattering media.

2008-05-10: Full characterization of anisotropic diffuse light is now possible with the straight-forward method we have introduced. I've dubbed this method "Effusion Microscopy" in my Master's thesis.
In an article published in Optics Express (Vol. 16, Issue 10, pp. 7435-7446), Patrick Johnson, me, and Ad Lagendijk have demonstrated our method for fully characterizing diffuse transport of light in a statistically anisotropic opaque material. Our technique provides a straight-forward procedure for determining all parameters governing anisotropic diffusion. Anisotropy in the diffusion constant, the mean free path, and the extrapolation length are, for the first time, determined independently. These results show that the anisotropic diffusion model is effective for modeling transport in anisotropic samples, providing that the light is allowed to travel several times the transport mean free path from the source.

2008-04-15: Ad Lagendijk has compiled a life long learning and teaching experience in a comprehensive and highly informative 'How to' for scientists, aptly titled: "Survival Guide for Scientists". This book is published by the Amsterdam University Press and Chicago University Press.
The survival kit contains guidelines for writing articles, creating presentations, but also hard nose tips on how to survive in the hard and competitive world of science.
You can order the book through the Amsterdam University Press.
A related blog has been initiated on www.sciencesurvivalblog.com, to which I also post some short texts.

2008-02-21: Our "Organic Spintronics" article has been selected as one of the highlights of the articles published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (J. Phys. D) in 2007.
A special collection of 30 articles, including ours, has been created on the journal website at this link and will be available for free until 31 December 2008.