Shambhu Ghimire

Shambhu Ghimire received his PhD in physics from Kansas State University in 2007 and went to University of Michigan for a post-doc work before joining SLAC in 2009. Today, Ghimire is a principal investigator at Stanford PULSE Institute in SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, leading the Attosecond X-ray Photonics Group. He is a recipient of the Young Investigator award from the Office of Science, US Department of Energy. His research interests are on strong-field and attosecond electron dynamics. He was elected an Optica Fellow in 2024.