CV

Comprehensive overview of my academic and professional experience. For the complete CV, please download the PDF version linked above.

Research Interest

  • NV Magnetometry, Magnonics, Spintronics, Magnetic Materials and Magnetism, Ferrimagnetic Insulator, Garnets, Ferromagnetic Resonance, and Thin Film Deposition.

Work and Research Experience

  • 2024 - Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Howard University, QMML Lab Washington DC, USA
    • Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
    • Identified emergent materials and collaborated to design the projects.
    • Micromagnetic simulation studies for real-space magnetic topological features.
  • 2024 - Present
    Visiting Scholar
    Northeastern University, EQUAL Lab, Boston, MA, USA
    • Synthesis and characterization of magnetic materials.
    • Performed scanning NV magnetometry experiments.
    • Collaborating to publish an article in peer-reviewed journals.
  • 2019
    Beamline User
    Raja Ramanna Center for Advanced Technology, Indore, India
    • Beamline user at BL-3 Soft X-ray Beamline of INDUS-2.
    • Soft X-ray reflectivity and absorption experiments and exposure to the synchrotron radiation source.
    • Performing the experiments and sample preparation.
  • 2016 - 2018
    Project Fellow
    School of Physics, Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore, India
    • Project Fellow working on swift heavy ion irradiation effects.
    • Project entitled "Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation (SHI) on structural and magnetic properties of nano-crystalline spinel ferrites."
    • Assisted with Ph.D. for experimental data analysis and synthesis.
  • 2015 - 2016
    Master's Project Student
    UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, India
    • Master's project student under the supervision of Dr. Vasant Sathe.
    • Thesis entitled "Temperature dependent Raman spectroscopic studies of LaFeO₃ and LaMnO₃ across magnetic order."
    • Synthesizing perovskites with the solid-state method, characterization, and data analysis.
  • 2015
    Summer Intern
    Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India
    • Summer intern guided by Mr. Thomas Jinto.
    • Report entitled "Calibration of polychromator for Thomson scattering using Raman scattering."
    • Alignments and calibration of polychromator.

Education

  • 2018 - 2024
    Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology
    Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India
    • Thesis "Magnetic resonance properties of all solution-processed Iron Garnet thin films."
    • Advisor Dr. Shrawan Kumar Mishra.
  • 2014 - 2016
    M.Sc. in Physics
    School of Physics, Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore, India
    • CGPA 8.16/10 (I Division).
  • 2011 - 2014
    B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics
    Govt. Holkar Science College, Indore, India
    • Affiliated to Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore, India.
    • Percentage 79.97% (I Division) (1st position in Batch).
  • 2011
    Higher Secondary Examination
    Madhya Pradesh Board, Indore, India
    • Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.
    • Percentage 86.2% (among 1 percent in the state of M.P., India).

Publications

  • 1. "Quantum sensing of geometrically altered DMI-induced domain walls in thulium iron Garnets" R. Sharma, et al. (Under preparation)
  • 2. "Magneto Crystalline Anisotropy in Multi-Oriented MnSb Thin Films for Multifunctional Device Applications", N. Azam, I. Irshad, R. Sharma, APL Electronic Devices (Accepted).
  • 3. "Interfacial skyrmion in magnetic thin films and its applications", R. Sharma, S. K. Mishra, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 551 (2022) 169107.
  • 4. "Observation of V−V dimers softening and distinct length scales in nanostructured VO₂ thin films", P.K. Ojha*, R. Sharma*, R. Hissariya, S. Babu, E. Ketkar, S. Singh, S. Neema, A. Rana, N. Pal, V.G. Sathe, S.K. Mishra, Journal of Alloys and Chemistry 163 (2022) 110564.
  • 5. "Antisites disorder mediated magnetization relaxation and polydispersity in La₃NiMnO₇-crystallites", R. Hissariya, R. Sharma, S.K. Mishra, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 181 (2023) 111549.
  • 6. "Magnetic energy dissipative factors in solution-processed TmIG thin films", R. Sharma, P.K. Ojha and S.K. Mishra, Thin Solid Films 764 (2023) 139625.
  • 7. "Magnetic ordering in sol-gel-based Tm₃Fe₅O₁₂ thin films", R. Sharma, P.K. Ojha, S. Choudhary and S. K. Mishra, Materials Letters 352 (2023) 135154.
  • 8. "Charge ordering at a dielectric gate in itinerant metallic states with low-field memristor properties in VO₂ thin films", P. K. Ojha, R. Sharma, S. K. Mishra, and S.Ram, Surfaces and Interfaces 42 (2023) 103445.
  • 9. "Dynamics of phonons, charge-regulated itinerant VO₂ states, and their impacts on the memristor properties of spin VO₂ films", P. K. Ojha, R. Sharma, V.G. Sathe, S. Ram and S. K. Mishra, Surfaces and Interfaces 46 (2024) 104029.
  • 10. "All solution grown epitaxial magnonic crystal of thulium iron garnet thin film", R. Sharma, P. K. Ojha, S. Sahoo, R. Roychoudhary, and S. K. Mishra Nanoscale 15 (2023) 9152-9161 (DOI 10.1039/d2nr05823e-2312.15973).
  • 11. "The micromagnetic study of stabilizing parameters for the interfacial skyrmions", R. Sharma, and S. K. Mishra, Materials Today Proceedings 66 (2022) 1205.
  • 12. "Effect of 120 MeV ²⁸Si⁸⁺ ion irradiation on structural and magnetic properties of NiFe₂O₄ and Ni₀.₇Zn₀.₃Fe₂O₄" R. Sharma, S. Raghuwanshi, M. Satalkar, S. N. Kane, T. R. Tatarchuk, and F. Mazaleyrat, AIP Conference Proceedings 1953 (2018) 030117.

Conferences and Presentations

  • 2025
    • Conference for Graduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics, Washington DC, USA.
    • American Physical Society Global Physics Summit (March Meeting), Los Angeles CA, USA (Poster Presented).
  • 2023
    • MagIC+ Magnetism, Interactions and Complexity Innovative ideas on spin wave dynamics and transport properties in low-dimensional materials (MagIC+ 2023), Bedlewo, Poland (Poster presented).
    • 8th International Conference on Nanomaterials for Better Living (NBL 2023), Srinagar, Kashmir, India (Poster presented).
  • 2022
    • Recent Advancement in Sustainable Materials (GC-RASM 2022), Mangalore, Karnataka, India (Oral presentation).
    • International Conference on Higher Education Research and Innovation (ICHERI'22) (Virtually).
  • 2021
    • International Conference on Advanced Materials and Mechanical Characterization (ICAMMC) 2021 (Virtually).

Experimental Skills

  • Sample Preparation
    • Sol-gel-based spin coating
    • Magnetron DC and RF Sputtering
    • Ion Beam Sputtering
  • Characterization Techniques
    • Scanning NV magnetometry
    • Broadband Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR)
    • Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
    • Magnetic Properties Measurement System (MPMS)
    • Spectrometer
    • Micro Raman
    • X-ray Reflectivity (XRR)
    • X-ray diffraction (XRD)
    • Field Electron Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM)
    • Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
    • X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS)

Computational Skills

  • Basic Software
    • Microsoft Office
    • Origin (graphics software)
    • Igor (graphics software)
    • LaTeX
    • Python
  • Analytical Software
    • Image J (Scanning Electron Microscopy analysis)
    • Gwyddion (Atomic Force Microscopy analysis)
    • Parratt32 (X-ray reflectivity analysis)
    • Vesta Software (crystal structure analysis)
    • CasaXPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy analysis)
    • XPS Peak 4.1 (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy analysis)
    • Full Prof (Rietveld Refinement)
    • SRIM (ion irradiation stopping potential and range of matter)
  • Micromagnetic Software
    • Mumax³
    • Object Oriented Micromagnetic Framework (OOMMF)

Additional Skills

  • Experience in performing data analysis, preparing reports and presentations for projects, and writing scientific publications.
  • Learned to be efficient in time management and able to fulfill tight deadline requirements.