Suresh Gnawali joined Florida Poly's Department of Physics as a visiting assistant
professor of physics in 2024. Before this, he was a graduate research and teaching
assistant at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Gnawali has a strong passion for academia and has been actively involved in teaching
since high school. He has worked extensively on multidisciplinary research projects,
including theoretical and computational studies on 2D materials and finite nanostructures
to investigate optical nonlinearities. Prior to 2019, his research was focused on
theoretical, experimental and computational work on medical imaging physics and biophysics.
Provost Dissertation Award, Georgia State University, 2023
International Student Association Council (ISAC) Leader of the Year, Georgia State
University, 2021
Outstanding Poster Presentation Student Award in Oral Presentation, Alabama State
University Annual Research Symposium, 2019
Science, Technology and Environment Exhibition Award, St. Xavier’s College, 2011
Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Georgia State University, 2024
M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics, Georgia State University, 2021
M.S. in Biomedical Physics, Tribhuvan University, 2012
B.S. in Physics, Tribhuvan University, 2007
2D materials
Nano-optics
Ultrafast phenomena
Medical physics
Biophysics
Member, American Physical Society, 2022-current
The Association of Nepali Physicists in America (ANPA), 2022-current
