Department of Physics

• Year of Joining:  July 1988
• Educational Qualifications: 
• PhD 1987 Centre for Energy Studies IIT Delhi.
• MSc Physics 1983 IIT Delhi
• BSc Physics (Hons) 1981 Hindu College. Delhi University
• Thesis Title: Evaluation of Passive Techniques in Non Conditioned Buildings.
• Area of Research: Solar Architecture, Passive Concepts in Architecture.

• Year of Joining :   Permanent faculty since July 1995.  Lecturer on ad hoc basis  from August 1992 to July 1995
• Educational Qualifications :   Ph.D  (2001), Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi.  M.Sc. Physics (1988),  Delhi University.  B.Sc. Honours  Physics (1986), Delhi University.

Year of joining Miranda House : Permanent Faculty since October 16, 1996

Teaching :  Teaching as Adhoc Faculty since August,1992 

Educational Qualifications :

Ph D,1996, Department of Physics and Astrophysics,University of Delhi.MSc in Physics,1991 from Department of Physics and Astrophysics,University of Delhi. B Sc (Hons)Physics,1989 from Hansraj College, University of Delhi.

Area of Research : Experimental High Energy Physics.

Title of Thesis : Intermittency Phenomenon in 800 GeV proton - emulsion nuclei interactions.

Year of Joining Miranda House: 
Permanent Faculty since March 10, 2005. Lecturer (ad-hoc) from July 2001- March 2005;
Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., 2004, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi
NET-JRF (CSIR-UGC) in Physical Sciences, June 1996
M.Sc. Physics, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, 1996 IInd Rank
B.Sc. (Hons) Physics, Miranda House, University of Delhi, 1994 IIIrd Rank in the University
Thesis Title: Cosmic Equation of State and Gravitational Lensing Statistics.
Total Publications (in referred journals): 21
Scopus h-index: 14
Citations (Scopus): 808
Area of Research: Cosmology; Constraints on cosmological parameters in dark energy models using observational data.
Other Interests: Water Colour Paintings, Photography, Dramatics

Year of Joining Miranda House: Permanent Faculty since March 11, 2005

Educational Qualifications: Ph.D., 2014, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi. Passed Joint CSIR-UGC JRF-NET Examination, December 2001. M.Sc. Physics (2001) and B.Sc. Hons. Physics (1999) from Miranda House, University of Delhi.

Thesis Title: Fabrication of Nanostructures using Modified Dense Plasma Focus and their Characterization including Surface Plasmon Resonance.

Area of Research: Applied Plasma Physics; Plasma Processing of Nanomaterials: Metal Nanostructures and Characterizations.

Total Teaching Experience: 20 Years as on 11 August 2023

• Designation:

  Professor, Department of Physics, Miranda House, University of Delhi

  Fellow, Insititute of Eminence, University of Delhi

• Recognized amongst the top 2% scientists of the world in the ranking released by Stanford (2022 and 2023).

• Specialization:Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (Adv. Materials& Electronic Devices)
• Educational Qualifications:Ph.D. (Physics): University of Delhi (2004): Thesis on “Studies on Temperature Stability of LiNbO3 and ZnO thin film Surface Acoustic Wave Devices
  Passed Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility test (NET) Examination in July 2001.
  B.Sc.(69.0%) and M.Sc.(75.1%) from University of Delhi in 1996 and 1998 respectively.
• Teaching Experience:18 Years
• Research Experience:19 Years (after Ph.D.)
• Research Guidance: Two students are pursuing Ph.D and Nine students have been awarded Ph.D. (1 as co-supervisor); One student has been awarded M.Phil degree.
• Publications: 377 (276-Refereed Journals, 102-International/National Conference Proceedings) Total citation > 7,084 h-index = 44 (scopus); 50 (Google Scholar); i10-index= 213 (Google Scholar)
• Research Interests:Semiconductor and Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors for gas/chemical/radiations/bio-molecules, Amperometric/Photometric biosensors, Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technique for dielectric studies and sensing applications, Micro-fluidics, Nanostructured materials, Piezoelectric and Multiferroic thin films/ceramics for energy harvesting applications, Pressure sensors, RF and microwave resonators, photonic devices, Non linear optical studies, SAW devices, MEMS transducers and Micro-heaters, Thin film processing, Electronic device fabrication.


• TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS:
  • Technology transferon complete know-how about the developed equipment “Table-top Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) set up” to an industry “Optiregion, Ashok Vihar, Delhi-110052” for its commercialization on 17-02-2015.
  • Indian Patents Granted: 03 and Published: 8 
  • USA Patent (Granted): 1 (Patent No. US10115456B2, 2018/10/30) (US20170206952A1, 2017/1/13)
• Sponsored Research Projects: 6 On-going projects and 20 completed projects

Year of Joining Miranda House:  Permanent Faculty since July, 2009
Educational Qualification:
M.Phil. Physics,  Himachal Pradesh University, Summerhill Shimla (H.P.).
Ph.D. (Pursuing)  Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi.

Permanent Faculty since March 10, 2023.

Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) from January 17, 2011 - March 9, 2023.

Educational Qualifications:

Ph. D., 2017, University School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Indraprastha University.

M.Sc. Physics (with specialization in Electronics), 2008, Department of Physis and Astrophysics (enrollment in Hansraj College), University of Delhi

B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics, 2006, Hansraj College, University of Delhi

Passed Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) Examination in Physical Sciences, 2009 and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics, 2009

Thesis Title:

Investigations in Three-Dimensional Imaging and Wavefront Aberrations

Research Interests:

Digital Signal Processing,  Digital Image Processing, Wavefront Aberrations

Permanent Faculty since March 10, 2023. 

Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) from January 4, 2016, to March 9, 2023.

Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D.: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi (2015).

M.Sc. Physics: Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi (2011).

B.Sc.(H) Physics: Hansraj College, University of Delhi (2009).

Research Area: Effective Field Theory for Hadron Physics.

Year of Joining Miranda House: Ad-hoc Faculty since  July 20, 2016

Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D., 2014, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi

M.Sc., 2008, Physics Department of Physics, Miranda House, University of Delhi

B.Sc., 2006, Physics Department of Physics, Miranda House, University of Delhi

Thesis Title: Structural, Optical and Electrical studies of Wide Band Gap Nanomaterials

Research Interests: Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience, and Nanotechnology

Permanent Faculty since March 10, 2023. 

Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) from January 04, 2016 to March 09, 2023.

Educational Qualifications:

Ph. D., 2013, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

M.Sc. Physics, 2005, Seth G.B. Poddar College Nawalgarh (affiliated to University of Rajasthan), Rajasthan.

B.Sc. (Prog) Physics, 2003, Seth G.B. Poddar College Nawalgarh (affiliated to University of Rajasthan), Rajasthan.

Passed Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics in 2006.

Thesis Title:

Investigations on Biometrics based information security systems.

Research Interests:

Optical Image Encryption, Optics based Biometric Security Systems, Biometric Recognition, Digital Image Processing.

Total Publications (in referred journals): 16

Permanent Faculty since March 10, 2023

Assistant Professor (ad-hoc) from July 20, 2017 to March 09, 2023

Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D. (Physics)  Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

M.Sc. (Physics)  Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi - 2008

B.Sc. (Physics, Mathematics): Ewing Christian College, Allahabad University - 2006

Passed Joint CSIR-UGC (JRF) Examination in Physical Sciences - June 2009

Passed Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics - 2009

Thesis Title:

Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Chaotic Systems and Random Matrix Theory

Research Interests: Classical and Quantum Chaotic Systems, Random Matrix Theory

Permanent Faculty since 10 March, 2023.

 Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) during the period 20 July 2016  to 30 Aug  2016 and from  20 July 2017  to 9 March 2023.

Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D in 2002 from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

 Thesis Title: Electron Localization in Low Dimensional Systems

M Phil in 1997 from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Dissertation Title: Resistance of Thin Wires: Effect of Localization

M.Sc. (Physics) in 1996 from University of Calicut, Kerala, India

B.Sc. (Physics) in 1994 from University of Calicut, Kerala, India

Qualified Joint CSIR-UGC  National Eligibility Test  (JRF-NET) Examination in Physical Sciences in June 1999

Research Experience:

1. Post Doctoral Fellow at Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria, SPAIN through  Spanish Ministry of Education and Science Fellowship.

2. Guest Research Associate at Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

3.  Post Doctoral Fellow at Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.

Research Projects:

1.  Principal Investigator (April 2013 – April 2016)  in DST  SERC Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists at School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Project Title: Study of noise induced effects in nonequillibrium systems

2.  Principal Investigator (July 2009 – June 2012)  in DST  SERC Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists at School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Project Title: Study of phase transitions and stochastic processes in nonequilibrium systems

Research Interests:

Noise-induced transport, Low dimensional disordered systems. 

PhD in 2019, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi. 

Passed Joint CSIR-UGC JRF-Net Examination in December 2012 (38th rank).

M.Sc. Physics (2007) and B.Sc (2005) from CCS University, Meerut.

Thesis Title: Statistical studies of accelerated cosmic expansion.

Area of Research: Cosmology, Constraints on dark energy models in various dark energy models using different observational data, Dark matter.

Total Teaching Experience: 6Y 3M

Year of Joining Miranda House: Assistant Professor since 10 March 2023

Eduational Qualifications: Ph.D. Astrophysics from University of Delhi, 2023.

M.Sc Physics (Specialization: Astronomy and Astrophysics) from Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Universty of Delhi, 2015

B.Sc (Hons.) Physics, Hindu College, University of Delhi, 2013

Passed CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET-JRF) in Physical Sciences, 2015 (Rank 44)

Thesis Title: A study of extra-tidal stars in the Galactic globular clusters using the Gaia photometric and astrometric data

Research Interests: Galactic globular clusters and variable stars.

Year of Joining Miranda House:  Permanent faculty since 10 March 2023.

Educational Qualification:

Ph.D.:  Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (2023).

M.Sc.( Physics): Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (2015).

B.Sc.(H) Physics: St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi (2013).

UGC-NET JRF (2016) and GATE (2016) - Physical Sciences qualified.

Research Area: Optical spectroscopic studies of two- dimensional Transitional Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs).

Permanent faculty since March 10, 2023.

Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D. : Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (2021).

Thesis Title: Some aspects of non-perturbative quantum gravity in a two form gauge theory.

M.Sc. : Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (2014).

Area  of specialization: String Theory.

B.Sc.  (Hons.) Physics : Hans Raj College, University of Delhi (2012).

Research Area: Quantum gravity; Quantum field theory, Gravitation.

• Desiganation:  Assistant Professor
• Permanent faculty since March 20, 2023.
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• Educational Qualification
• ​​​​ Ph.D: Department of Physics, University of Jammu (started from 2019 and still in progress).

UGC-NET JRF : in Physical Science (2019)

JK SET/SLET : in Physical Science (2018). 

M.Sc : Department of Physics, Panjab University Chandigarh (2017).

​​​​B.Sc (H) : Miranda House, University of Delhi (2015).

Area of Research:  Experimental High Energy Physics (in collaboration with ALICE Experiment at CERN Geneva Switzerland).

Thesis title:  Intermittency analysis of charged particles produced in Xe-Xe collision system at Center of Mass  Energy 5.44 TeV.