Research Interest
Zhandos Utegulov is founding faculty member of SSH Department of Physics, Associate Professor and Director of Advanced Materials Research & Laser Technology Laboratory (www.amrelat.nu.edu.kz). His R&D portfolio is in applied physics area of laser-based material science & technology and optical sensing
The focus of his research is on laser-matter interaction at various spatio-temporal scales, laser-based materials characterization & development of fast and ultrafast time-resolved laser-acoustic and photo-thermal sensing techniques; Brillouin, surface-enhanced Brillouin, Raman, absorption and
photoluminescence spectroscopies of variety of nanostructured, thin film, bulk solid, soft & fluid materials for diverse research & industrial applications.
Prior to Nazarbayev University Zhandos has held several research positions in the United States at Idaho National Laboratory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder, Colorado) and University of Cincinnati. Zhandos received his PhD in Physics in 2003 and MS in Photonics in 1999 both from Oklahoma State University and Magna Cum Laude Diploma in Physics from Al Farabi Kazakh National University in 1996.
More on latest research and publications can be found at our group website www.amrelat.nu.edu.kz
PHYS 473 Introduction to Solid State Physics
PHYS 370 Optics with Laboratory
PHYS 362 Classical Electrodynamics II
PHYS 361 Classical Electrodynamics I
PHYS 280 Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics
PHYS 261 Modern Physics with Laboratory
PHYS 162 Physics II with Labs
PHYS 161 Physics I with Labs
PHYS 692 Master Thesis
PHYS 499 Graduation Project
PHYS 491 Directed Study of Advanced Topics
PHYS 409 4th year Research Project
PHYS 492 Physics Research Project
PHYS 309 3rd year Summer Project
PHYS 495 Physics Colloquium
PHYS 105 Careers in Physics