Hadiseh Nasari received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with the highest honors (summa cum laude) from Iran in 2017. Between 2018 and 2020, she pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Berkeley. Following this, from 2020 to 2023, she held a position as a research scientist at CREOL—The College of Optics & Photonics—at the University of Central Florida and at the University of Southern California. Subsequently, she joined the Photonics Initiative of the Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, as a postdoctoral research associate. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York.

Her research explores emergent optical phenomena inspired by cross-disciplinary analogies and implemented through nanostructured and temporally driven photonic systems. With core contributions to topological phases, non-Hermitian dynamics, and nonlinear light–matter interactions, her broader body of work extends into terahertz photonics, plasmonics, and two-dimensional materials. By integrating theoretical analysis, advanced simulation, and experimental methodologies, her efforts aim to uncover new frontiers in optical physics and photonic computing. Her work has been published in leading journals including Nature and Science.

Dr. Nasari is the recipient of a Marie-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence in 2019, of the 2018 Dr. Kazemi Ashtiani Award from Iran’s National Elites’ Foundation (INEF), and of a special award of INEF from 2015 to 2018. She translated “Fundamentals of Photonics” from English into Persian and serves as a reviewer for more than 20 optics journals. She has also contributed to the organization of Metamaterials conferences and Optica technical meetings.

• PhD, Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2017
• MSc, Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2012
• BSc, Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2010

EE 21000 - Switching Systems

Photonic Emulators, Time-Varying Media, Photonic Computing, Topological Photonics, Non-Hermitian Physics, Nonlinear
Optics, Nano-photonics, 2D and van der Waals Crystals, Computational Electromagnetics, Terahertz Optics, Plasmonics

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2NxxPqYAAAAJ&hl=en

JOURNALS

1. H. Nasari, H. Moussa, Y. Kasahara, A. Thielens, & A. Alù, “Observation of Penrose-
Zel’dovich super-radiance and angular-momentum bandgaps in a Floquet-rotating spacetime
crystal”, Nature, vol. 655, pp. 608-616, 2026. 
2. M. Khodadadi, N. Nozhat, and H. Nasari, “A comprehensive review on hybrid plasmonic
waveguides: Structures, applications, challenges, and future perspectives”.
Nanotechnology Reviews, vol. 14, 20240137, 2025.
3. H. Nasari, G. G. Pyrialakos, D. N. Christodoulides and M. Khajavikhan, “Non-Hermitian
topological photonics”, Opt. Mater Express, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 870-885, 2023.
4. H. Nasari, G. L. Galmiche, H. E. Lopez Aviles, A. Schumer, A.U. Hassan, Q. Zhong,
Stefan Rotter, P. L. LiKamWa, M. Khajavikhan and D. N. Christodoulides, “Observation
of chiral state transfer without encircling an exceptional point”, Nature, vol. 605, pp. 256-
261, 2022.
5. A. Schumer, Y. G. N. Liu, J. Leshin, L. Ding, Y. Alahmadi, A. U. Hassan, H. Nasari, S.
Rotter, D. N. Christodoulides, P. LikamWa, M. Khajavikhan, “Topological modes in a laser
cavity through exceptional state transfer”, Science, vol 375, pp. 884-888, 2022.
6. P. S. Jung, M. Parto, G. G. Pyrialakos, H. Nasari, M. Khajavikhan, W. Krolikowski, D. N.
Christodoulides, “Optical Thouless pumping transport and nonlinear switching in a
topological low-dimensional discrete liquid crystal array”, Phys. Rev. A, vol 105, 013513,
2021.
7. W. Noh*, H. Nasari*, H.M. Kim*, V. Q. Le, Z. Jia, C. Huang and B. Kante, “Experimental
demonstration of single-mode topological Valley Hall lasing at telecommunication
wavelength controlled by the degree of asymmetry”, Opt. Lett., vol. 45, no. 15, pp 4108-
4111,2020.
8. H. Nasari, M. Dupre and B. Kante, “Efficient design of random metasurfaces,” Opt. Lett.,
vol. 43, no. 23, pp. 5829-5832, 2018.
9. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian and P. Berini, “Nonlinear optics of surface plasmon
polaritons in subwavelength graphene ribbon resonators,” Optics Express, vol. 24, no.1, pp.
708-723, 2016.
10. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Quasi-phase matching for efficient long-range
plasmonic third harmonic generation via graphene” Optics Letters, vol. 40, no. 23, pp.
5510-5513, 2015.
11. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Nonlinear Manipulation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons
in Graphene Based Bragg Reflector,” Journal of Light wave Technology, vol.33, no. 19,
pp. 4071-4078 (2015).
12. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “All-optical tunable notch filter by use of Kerr
nonlinearity in a graphene microribbon array” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B., vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 1691-
1697, 2014.
13. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Terahertz bistability and multistability in
graphene/dielectric Fibonacci multilayer,” Applied Optics, vol. 56, no. 19, pp. 5313-5322,
2017.
14. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian,“ Numerical Study of Plasmonic Resonance Enhanced,
Terahertz Second Harmonic Generation from Graphene in the Otto Configuration,” IEEE
Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 53, no. 4, 8500407, 2017.
15. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Nonlinear terahertz frequency conversion via graphene
microribbon array,” Nanotechnology, vol. 27, 305202, 2016.
16. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Electrically tunable, Plasmon resonance enhanced,
terahertz third harmonic generation via graphene” RSC Adv., vol. 6, pp. 50190-50200, May
2016.
17. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Electrically tunable graded index planar lens based on
graphene,” J. Appl. Phys., vol. 116, 083106, 2014.
18. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Magnetically tunable focusing in a graded index planar
lens based on graphene,” J. Opt., vol. 16, 105502, 2014.
19. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Electrically tunable light focusing via a plasmonic
lens,” J. Opt., vol. 14, 125002, 2012.
20. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Beam manipulation via an array of nanoslits modified
with perpendicular cuts and bumps,” Plasmonics, vol.8, no. 4, pp. 1675-1682, 2013.
21. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian, “Active focusing of light in plasmonic lens via Kerr
effect” J. Opt. Soc. Korea, vol 16, no. 3, pp. 305-312, 2012.
22. HR.Taghvaee, H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian,“ Circuit modeling of graphene absorber
in terahertz band,” Optics Communication, vol. 383, pp. 11-16, 2016.
 

CONFERENCES &
PRESENTATIONS

23. H. Nasari, H. Moussa, Y. Kasahara, A. Thielens, & A. Alù, “Angular momentum timecrystal
for synthetic Penrose superradiance”, SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, USA,
Augus 2025.
24. H. Nasari, “Electromagnetic Modeling in Discrete Space-Time: An Introduction to the
Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Method”, City University of New York,
Advanced Science Research Center, May 2025 – Invited.
25. H. Nasari, G. L. Galmiche, H. E. Lopez Aviles, A. Schumer, A.U. Hassan, Q. Zhong,
Stefan Rotter, P. L. LiKamWa, M. Khajavikhan and D. N. Christodoulides, “Dynamics of
chiral state transfer in the vicinity of a non-Hermitian singularity”, University of Ottawa,
Canada, November 2022 – Invited.
26. H. Nasari, G. L. Galmiche, H. E. Lopez Aviles, A. Schumer, A.U. Hassan, Q. Zhong,
Stefan Rotter, P. L. LiKamWa, M. Khajavikhan and D. N. Christodoulides, “Dynamics of
chiral state transfer in the vicinity of a non-Hermitian singularity”, Conference on Lasers
and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, USA, May 2022 – Invited.
27. H. Nasari, G. Lopez-Galmiche, H. E. Lopez Aviles, A. U. Hassan, A. Schumer, P.
LiKamWa, M. Khajavikhan and D. N. Christodoulides, “Towards a common path photonic
emulator for dynamically encircling an exceptional point” 2021 Conference on Lasers and
Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, USA, May 2021.
28. W. Noh*, H. Nasari*, H.M. Kim*, V. Q. Le, Z. Jia, C. Huang and B. Kante, “Single-mode
topological Valley-Hall lasing controlled by the degree of asymmetry at telecommunication
wavelength”, 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, USA, May
2021.
29. W. Noh*, H. Nasari*, H.M. Kim*, V. Q. Le, Z. Jia, C. Huang and B. Kante, “Single mode
topological Valley Hall lasing controlled by the degree of asymmetry”, Novel In-Plane
Semiconductor Lasers, 11705,11705C, USA, March 2021.
30. W. Noh*, H. Nasari*, H.M. Kim*, V. Q. Le, Z. Jia, C. Huang and B. Kante, “Experimental
demonstration of topological Valley Hall lasing at telecommunication wavelength”,
Nonlinear Photonics, JTh4A.1, USA, July 2020.
31. W. Noh*, H. Nasari*, H.M. Kim*, V. Q. Le, Z. Jia, C. Huang and B. Kante, “Experimental
demonstration of single mode topological Valley Hall lasing controlled by the degree of
asymmetry”, 2020 conference on lasers and electro-optics pacific rim (CLEO-PR),
Australia, August 2020.
32. W. Noh*, H. Nasari*, H.M. Kim*, V. Q. Le, Z. Jia, C. Huang and B. Kante, “Single mode
topological Valley Hall lasing at telecommunication wavelength”, Frontiers in Optics,
FTh5D.1, USA, September 2020.
33. W. Noh*, H. Nasari*, H.M. Kim*, V. Q. Le, Z. Jia, C. Huang and B. Kante, “Experimental
demonstration of single-mode topological Valley Hall lasing at telecommunication
wavelength”, Advanced Solid-State Lasers, ATu2A.7, USA, October 2020.
34. H. Nasari, M. Dupre and B. Kante, “New Phase-map for efficient random metasurfaces,”
Proceedings of SPIE 11080, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems, San Diego,
USA, September 2019.
35. H. Nasari, M. Dupre and B. Kante, “A novel phase-map to increase the efficiency of
Random metasurfaces,” CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science 2019, San Jose, USA, May
2019.
36. H. Nasari, M. Dupre and B. Kante, “New phase-map for random metasurfaces” SPIE
Photonic West 2019, San Francisco, USA, February 2019.
37. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian “Tunable beam manipulation via graphene,” IST 2014,
ICT Research institute, Tehran, Iran, September, 2014.
38. H. Nasari and M. S. Abrishamian “Planar metallic lens based on an array of slits modified
by perpendicular cuts,” ICEE 2013, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran, May 2013.
 

BOOKS

39. M. S. Abrishamian and H. Nasari, “Fundamentals of Photonics by Prof. B. E. A. Saleh and
Prof. M. C. Teich”, Translator English-Farsi, K. N. Toosi University of Technology,
Tehran, 2020.