Dr. Yogeshwar Nath Mishra is an Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur and a former NASA Scientist. He earned his Ph.D. in Photonics and Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden (2018), where he developed advanced laser diagnostics for probing optically dense spray systems. He later worked as a researcher at FAU Erlangen (Germany), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech (USA).

Mentored by globally renowned scientists such as Prof. Lihong Wang (Caltech), Dr. Murthy Gudipati (NASA), and Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich (KAUST), Dr. Mishra has made pioneering contributions in ultrafast imaging and laser-based diagnostics. At Caltech, he co-invented laser sheet compressed ultrafast photography (LS-CUP), recognized as the world’s fastest single-shot planar imaging method. More recently, he reported CUP2AI, the world’s fastest molecular mapping technique.

His work has been widely featured in Physics World, Nature India, Phys.org, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Caltech News, and national TV. He has received several honors, including the Swedish Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018), Dr. K. Radhakrishnan Young Scientist Award (2023), and the Young Researcher Award (runner-up) from FAU Erlangen (2025). He also co-founded Fourier Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd., developing smart optical technologies for energy and biomedical applications.

Key Publications:

• P. Wang+, Y.N. Mishra+, F.J. Bauer+, M. S. Gudipati, L. V. Wang, Single-shot two-dimensional nano-size mapping of fluorescent molecules by ultrafast polarization anisotropy imaging, Nature Communications 2025 16 (1), 1-14 (IF ~ 15) Q1 +Equal contrib.
• Y.N. Mishra+, P. Wang+, F.J. Bauer, M. Gudipati, L.V. Wang, Single-pulse ultrafast real-time simultaneous planar imaging of femtosecond laser-nanoparticle dynamics in flames, Light: Science & Applications 13 (1), (2024). (IF = 23.4) Q1, Nature Publishing Group
• V.S. Jagadale, D. Deshmukh, D. Hanstorp, Y.N. Mishra, Bubble dynamics and atomization of acoustically levitated diesel and biodiesel droplets using femtosecond laser pulses, Scientific Reports 14 (1) (2024) (IF ~ 4) Q1 Nature Publishing Group
• Y.N. Mishra+, P. Wang+, F.J. Bauer, Y. Zhang, D. Hanstorp, S. Will, L.V. Wang, Single-pulse real-time billion-frames-per-second planar imaging of ultrafast nanoparticle-laser dynamics and temperature in flames, Light: Science & Applications 12 (1), 47 (2023). (IF = 23.4) Q1, Nature Publishing Group
• J. Paul, A. K. Pandey, Y.N. Mishra, Z. Said, Y. K. Mishra, Z. Ma, J. Jacob, K. Kadirgama, M. Samykano, V. V. Tyagi, Nano-enhanced organic form stable PCMs for medium temperature solar thermal energy harvesting: Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 161, 112321 (2022). (IF: 16.3) Q1

Ongoing Projects:

• Title: Laser-based sustainable hydrogen production from water Funding Agency: Adlerbertska Foundation for Sustainable Research, Gothenburg, Sweden, Collaborator: Prof. Dag Hanstorp (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Title: Development of imaging technique for visualization of preformed fragments in detonation gas cloud Funding Agency: DRDO Role: Co-PI