Aditya Sood is an assistant professor at Princeton University at the
Princeton Materials Institute and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering. His group works on fundamental problems at the intersection of
ultrafast science, microelectronics, and nanoscale thermal physics. He received
his BS from IIT Kanpur and PhD from Stanford University in materials science
and engineering. He was a postdoc and research scientist at the Stanford
Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) at SLAC National
Accelerator Laboratory, before starting at Princeton in 2023. He has been
recognized by the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, the AVS Nanoscale
Science and Technology Division Early Career Award, the LCLS Young Investigator
Award from SLAC, the MRS Postdoctoral Award, the MRS Gold Graduate Student
Award, and the Batra Gold Medal from IIT. His teaching at Princeton has been
recognized by three commendations for outstanding teaching from the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is the Principal Investigator of a newly
funded Cluster of Excellence at Princeton focusing on Advanced Optical
Metrology and Ultrafast Dynamics.