CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Murtadha A. Khakoo
 Professor of Physics (Tenured), Cal State Fullerton
Consultant, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Office - McCarthy Hall, MH665C
Phone - 714.278.2247    Fax - 714.278.5810
Email - mkhakoo@fullerton.edu

Education
Undergraduate: University College London (UK), B.Sc. Honors (1972-1975)
Graduate: University College London (UK), Ph.D. in Atomic Physics (1981)
Postdoctoral: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Resident Research Associate, Electron Scattering Group, Windsor, Canada

Memberships
Member of the American Physical Society
Member of the Council of Undergraduate Research
Member of the American Institute of Physics

Who's Who Appearances
Marquis Who's Who in America
Who's Who American Men and Women of Science

Patents
Patent #NPO-16235, "Pulsed Electron Gun.." (JPL)
     together with Dr. S. K. Srivastava (1985).

Recent Awards, Fellowships and Grants
NASA-ASEE Fellowship, PI
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2001)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Chartered Physicist (2001)
Dean's Outstanding Research Faculty Award (2001-02)
NASA-Planetary Atmospheres, co-PI (2004-2007)
NSF-RUI (2004-2007), PI
APS-Research Corporation Prize for Outstanding Research
     in an Undergraduate Institution (2005)

Recent Professional Colloquiums
Invited Talk – Electron scattering from molecular nitrogen
     Electron-Molecule Symposium, ICPEAC 2005, Campinas, Brazil
Plenary Talk – Electron Scattering from Fundamental Atoms and Molecules
     DAMOP 2005, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Recent Undergraduate Students' Colloquiums
Electron Impact Ionization of Helium
E. Schow, C. Medina, G. Vitug, G. Childers and M. A. Khakoo, 2005 Division of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, Lincoln, Nebraska; Abs#H6.00063
Electron Impact Ionization of Helium
E. Schow, C. Medina, G. Vitug, G. Childers and M. A. Khakoo, 56th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Abs#TA5, San Francisco, May 2003
Low Energy Electron Impact Excitation of Argon
P. Vandeventer, G. Childers and M. A. Khakoo, 56th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Abs#WC3, San Francisco, May 2003
Low Energy Electron Scattering from N2
Ismail Ozkay, CSUF Seminar, May 2005

Publications in Refereed journals - 67 (Abstracts - 84)
Selected Significant Publications (Undergraduates in Italics):

13. Polarization correlation study of the electron impact excitation of Neon and Argon, M. A. Khakoo and J. W. McConkey, Phys. Rev. Letts. 57, 679 (1986).

36. Electron Impact Excitation of the 11S ® 31P transition in Helium, M.A.Khakoo, D.Roundy and F.Rugamas, Phys. Rev. Letts. 75 41 (1995).

42. Elastic Scattering from Laser-Excited 138Ba(..6s6p1P1) Atoms, S.Trajmar, I.Kanik, M.A.Khakoo, L.LeClair, I.Bray, D.Fursa and G.Csanak, J.Phys.B: Atom.Mol.Opt.Phys. L34, 1234 (1998).

43. Electron Impact Excitation of the 12S ® 22S+ 22P transitions in Atomic Hydrogen at 50eV and 100eV Impact Energies, M. A. Khakoo, B. P. Paolini, M. Larsen, X. Guo, I. Bray, A. Stelbovics, I. Kanik and S. Trajmar, Phys. Rev. Letts. 82, 3980 (1999).

51. Monte Carlo Investigations of Mott Scattering from Gold Foils, M.A.Khakoo, D.Roundy, N.Margolis, E. Yeung, A. Ross and T. J. Gay , Phys. Rev. A 64 052713 (2001).

52. Electron Impact Excitation of the 2p53s configuration of Neon, M. A. Khakoo, J. Wrkich, G. Kleiban, I. Kanik, S. Trajmar, M. J. Brunger, P.J.O. Teubner, A. Crowe, C.J. Fontes, R. E. H. Clark,V. Zeman, K. Bartschat, D.H. Madison, R. Srivastava and A. D. Stauffer. (in Press)
(Current Research: SIX papers in progress at present)

56. Electron Impact Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen, J. Childers, K. James, M. Hughes, I. Bray, M. Baertschy and M. A. Khakoo, Phys. Rev. A: Rapid Communications, A 68, 030702R (2003).

57. Low Energy Electron Impact Excitation of the O (23p - 33s) Transition, P. Johnson, I. Kanik, M. A. Khakoo, J. W. McConkey and S. Tayal, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Phys., 36, 4289 (2003).

58. Electron impact excitation of the argon 3p54s configuration: Differential cross-sections and cross-section ratios, M. A. Khakoo, P. Vandeventer, J. G. Childers, I. Kanik, C. J. Fontes, K. Bartschat, V. Zeman, D. H. Madison, S. Saxena, R. Srivastava and A. D. Stauffer, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 37, 247 (2003).

59. Low Energy Electron Scattering from Atomic Hydrogen I: Ionization, J. Childers, K. James, M. Hughes, I. Bray, M. Baertschy I. Kanik and M. A. Khakoo, Phys. Rev. A 69, 022709 (2004)

60. Low Energy Electron Scattering from Atomic Hydrogen II: Elastic and Inelastic Scattering, K.E. James, J. Childers, M. Hughes, I. Bray, M. Baertschy and M. A. Khakoo, Phys. Rev. A 69, 022710 (2004).

63. Differential cross sections for the electron impact excitation of the A 3 Sigma + u , B 3 Pi g , W 3 Delta u , B' 3 Sigma - u , a' 1 Sigma - u , a 1 Pi g , w 1 Delta u , and C 3 Pi u states of N2 , M. A. Khakoo, P. V. Johnson, I. Ozkay, P Yan, S Trajmar, and I Kanik, Phys. Rev. A 71, 062703, (2005)

 

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