Randy Bartels

Bartels earned a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1997. During summer breaks, he participated in research experience for undergraduate programs, studying semiconductor thin film growth and characterization at Iowa State University,{{Cite web |last=Mattmiller |first=Brian |date=2023-05-25 |title=Super-resolution and ultra-deep: New Morgridge scientist pushes limits of imaging |url=https://morgridge.org/story/super-resolution-and-ultra-deep-new-morgridge-scientist-pushes-limits-of-imaging/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Morgridge Institute for Research |language=en-US}} fabricating and modeling ion-exchanged waveguides at the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan,{{Cite web |last=Mattmiller |first=Brian |date=2023-05-25 |title=Super-resolution and ultra-deep: New Morgridge scientist pushes limits of imaging |url=https://morgridge.org/story/super-resolution-and-ultra-deep-new-morgridge-scientist-pushes-limits-of-imaging/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Morgridge Institute for Research |language=en-US}} and building quasi-continuous-wave diode pumped solid state lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.{{Cite report |url=https://www.osti.gov/biblio/510668 |title=1-watt composite-slab Er:YAG laser. Revision 1 |last1=Page |first1=R. H. |last2=Bartels |first2=R. A. |date=1997-02-13 |publisher=Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States) |issue=UCRL-JC-125351-Rev.1; CONF-970103-6 |language=English |last3=Beach |first3=R. J. |last4=Sutton |first4=S. B. |last5=Furu |first5=L. H. |last6=LaSala |first6=J. E.|osti=510668 }} Bartels received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2002. After starting his Ph.D. work at the University of Michigan, he moved to JILA in Boulder, CO, where the bulk of his thesis work was performed. He worked on the development of ultrafast lasers, coherent control of quantum systems, and the study of extreme nonlinear optics.{{Cite web |title=Coherent Control of Atoms and Molecules {{!}} JILA - Exploring the Frontiers of Physics |url=https://jila.colorado.edu/bibcite/reference/653 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=jila.colorado.edu}} This work contributed to the development of attophysics by manipulating the strong-field dynamics of atomic electron wave functions with ~10 attosecond precision.{{Cite journal |last1=Bartels |first1=R. |last2=Backus |first2=S. |last3=Zeek |first3=E. |last4=Misoguti |first4=L. |last5=Vdovin |first5=G. |last6=Christov |first6=I. P. |last7=Murnane |first7=M. M. |last8=Kapteyn |first8=H. C. |date=July 2000 |title=Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-rays |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/35018029 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=406 |issue=6792 |pages=164–166 |doi=10.1038/35018029 |pmid=10910350 |hdl=10217/67979 |s2cid=662611 |issn=1476-4687|hdl-access=free |arxiv=2404.01324 }}{{Cite journal |last1=Christov |first1=I. P. |last2=Bartels |first2=R. |last3=Kapteyn |first3=H. C. |last4=Murnane |first4=M. M. |date=2001-06-11 |title=Attosecond Time-Scale Intra-atomic Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5458 |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=86 |issue=24 |pages=5458–5461 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5458|pmid=11415275 |bibcode=2001PhRvL..86.5458C |hdl=10217/68042 |s2cid=18498192 |hdl-access=free |url-access=subscription }} Attosecond physics was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023, conferred to three scientists “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/summary/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}

During his graduate career, Bartels was supported by a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and received the Optical Society of America’s New Focus Student Research Award, and a JILA Scientific Achievement Award,{{Cite web |title=Randy A Bartels {{!}} Optica |url=https://www.optica.org/History/Biographies/bios/Randy_A_Bartels |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.optica.org}} as well as the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Fellowship.{{Cite web |title=IEEE Photonics Society Awards |url=https://ieeephotonics.org/awards/graduate-student-scholarship/}}

Bartels began his independent research career at Colorado State University, where he was awarded a Monfort Professorship, and held joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and in the School of Biomedical Engineering. He began working on strong-field control of molecular rotations and vibrations and demonstrated ultra-sensitive detection of molecular coherences for spectroscopy and microscopy. His group developed vacuum ultraviolet light laser sources and optical systems, as well as stable optical comb sources in the mid infrared spectral region.

In 2023, Bartels joined the Morgridge Institute for Research as an Investigator and the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a professor of Biomedical Engineering. His research involves the development of spectroscopy and microscopy techniques and applications and the development of ultrafast fiber lasers for use in these applications.

Bartels is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the American Physical Society. He serves on the Editorial Board of Applied Physics Letters, Photonics, as an editor for Optics Communications, and as an Associate Editor for Science Advances.

• 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 0348068 - CAREER: Impulsive Molecular Modulation for Generating Broadly Tunable, Tailored Femtosecond Laser Pulses |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0348068&HistoricalAwards=false |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=en}}
• 2004 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America, "for pioneering contributions to the coherent control of light, atoms, and molecules, including the shaped-pulse optimization of high order harmonic soft x-ray radiation"{{Cite web |title=Adolph Lomb Medal {{!}} Optica |url=https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/awards/award_descriptions/adolphlomb/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.optica.org}}
• 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the Department of Defense
• 2005 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics{{Cite web |title=Fellows Database |url=https://sloan.org/fellows-database?page=210 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=sloan.org}}
• 2005 Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation{{Cite web |title=Randy Bartels |url=https://www.beckman-foundation.org/people/randy-bartels/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation |language=en-US}}
• 2007 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award, "for pioneering contributions to ultrafast molecular photonics and photonic reagent control of quantum systems on an unprecedented time-scale"{{Cite web |title=IEEE Photonics Society Awards |url=https://ieeephotonics.org/awards/young-investigator-award/}}
• 2005 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award
• 2008 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.engr.colostate.edu/faculty/rbartels/biography/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Dr. Randy Bartels |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Randy Bartels |url=https://www.nasonline.org/programs/kavli-frontiers-of-science/frontiers-alumni/alumni-directory/randy-bartels.html |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.nasonline.org}}
• 2011 Fellow, Optical Society of America (Optica){{Cite web |title=Fellow Members {{!}} Optica |url=https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.optica.org}}
• 2013 Fellow, American Physical Society, "for advances in precision temporal, spatial and spectral control of optical and x-ray pulses, the control of quantum wave packets via sculpted light fields, and optical microscopy"{{Cite web |title=APS Fellow Archive |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.aps.org |language=en}}

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