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Postdoctoral Research Fellows:

1. Girish Sharma (PhD, Clemson University, 2016). Girish joins us after doing his PhD with Sumanta Tewari and a postdoc with Ed Barnes at Virginia Tech. He has worked in the areas of topological quantum matter, Weyl fermions, transition metal dichalcogenides and non-equilibrium spin physics.

2. Nimisha Raghuvanshi (PhD, IIT Kanpur, 2017). Nimisha did her Ph.D. with Avinash Singh working on iron pnictides. She then did a postdoc with Alireza Akbari at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics in Korea before joining us in Singapore.

3. Hokin Tang (PhD, National University of Singapore, 2017). Hokin re-joins the group after spending one year working with big data and machine learning in industry. During his Ph.D, we worked together on incorporating long-range Coulomb interactions into quantum Monte Carlo algorithms. His thesis work was published as Science 361, 570 (2018) and Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 186602 (2015);

4. Jia Ning Leaw (PhD, National University of Singapore, 2018). Jia Ning recently completed his PhD and is continuing as a Research Fellow. He has worked on analytical models for electron-electron correlation effects in various 2D materials including anisotropic Dirac fermions (arXiv:1809.07775) and bilayer graphene.

5. Maxim Trushin (PhD, University of Hamburg, 2005). Maxim Trushin is the Director's Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced 2D Materials. Prior to coming to Singapore he worked in Regensburg, Konstanz and University of Texas at Austin on various properties of 2D materials. We currently have a few collaborative projects together on exitonic properties of 2D materials and interaction effects in topological materials.

Ph.D. Students

1. Indra Yudhistira (MS, Physics 2013, National University of Singapore)

2. Xingyu Gu (co-supervised by Hsin Lin, National University of Singapore)

Graduate Research Assistants:

1. Evan Laksono (BS, Physics, 2015, National University of Singapore)

2. Brian Khor (MS, Physics, 2018, Oxford University)

3. Shuin Jian (BS, Physics, 2018, Yale-NUS College)

Undergraduate Students:

1. Nilotpal Chakraborty (Senior, Yale-NUS College)

2. Harshitra Mahalingam (Sophomore, Yale-NUS College)

3. Gideon Lee (Sophomore, Yale-NUS College)

4. Alexander Michael Reaves (Sophomore, Yale-NUS College)

5. Manraaj Singh (Sophomore, Yale-NUS College)

Job Openings:

(1) Prospective Postdoctoral Fellows: The theory group of the Center for Advanced 2D Materials has a limited number of openings for senior postdoctoral researchers. Excellent candidates should send me their CV and a one-page independent research proposal. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.

(2) Prospective graduate students: There are four avenues for obtaining Research Scholarships to fund your graduate education and to complete your PhD under my mentorship. All four require that you send your application to Department of Physics though their website clearly indicating that you wish to work on theoretical condensed matter physics. There are two intakes each year to begin studies in either January or August (and you should e-mail me a completed copy of your application once submitted). Applicants to the Department of Physics are automatically considered for a Research Scholarship through the NUS Faculty of Science. In addition, highly qualified applicants should concurrently apply for either the Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA), which also has two intakes each year, or the Yale-NUS College graduate Research Scholarship, which has only one intake each year. Finally, the Center for Advanced 2D Materials also has graduate Fellowships that you can apply for.

(3) Undergradaute students: Yale-NUS College is seeking exceptional freshman in all areas of the liberal arts and sciences. See here for more information. Opportunities will be available for undergraduate students to participate in cutting edge research in theoretical physics. Current Yale-NUS College students should look for me in the dining hall to discuss research opportunities.

Former Students and Group Alumni:

(Please drop me an e-mail if any of this information is incorrect)

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