Dr Santosh Kumar
Superconductivity and Magnetism Group,
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India.
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Dr Santosh Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, India. He completed PhD from Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His research areas include Superconductivity and Magnetism. In his PhD, he studied the vortex phase transitions, vortex phase diagram and some metastability effects in the single crystals of some low Tc superconductors via detailed magnetization and electrical resistivity measurements.
At University of Warwick, UK, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Superconductivity and Magnetism group where he worked on some rare-earth transition-metal based permanent magnets.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India.
Academic Positions:
Assistant Professor : Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India.
Visiting Fellow : Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
Postdoctoral Researcher: Department of Physics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
Research Assistant: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
PhD: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India.
Research Area:
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Superconductivity
Magnetism
Single Crystal Growth
Recent Research Highlights
Paramagnetic Meissner effect, two-step peak effect anomaly and vortex phase diagram in the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Ru7B3,
Debajani Rout, Kamal Tej A, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, R. Kulkarni and Santosh Kumar, Superconductor Science and Technology 39, 075025 (2026).
Paramagnetic Meissner effect, two-step peak effect anomaly and vortex phase diagram in the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Ru7B3,
Debajani Rout, Kamal Tej A, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, R. Kulkarni and Santosh Kumar, Superconductor Science and Technology 39, 075025 (2026).
Single crystal growth, study of magnetic and transport properties in the non-centrosymmetric material YCoC2,
Debajani Rout, R. Kulkarni, A. Thamizhavel and Santosh Kumar, Journal of Crystal Growth 671, 128343 (2025).
Single crystal growth, study of magnetic and transport properties in the non-centrosymmetric material YCoC2,
Debajani Rout, R. Kulkarni, A. Thamizhavel and Santosh Kumar, Journal of Crystal Growth 671, 128343 (2025).
Inelastic neutron scattering investigation of the crystal field excitations of NdCo5,
F. de Almeida Passos, G. J. Nilsen, C. E. Patrick, M. D. Le, G. Balakrishnan, Santosh Kumar, A. Thamizhavel, D. R. Cornejo and J. Larrea Jimenez, Phys. Rev. B 108, 174409 (2023).
Torque magnetometry study of the spin reorientation transition and temperature-dependent magnetocrystalline anisotropy in NdCo5,
Santosh Kumar, Christopher E. Patrick, Rachel S. Edwards, Geetha Balakrishnan, Martin R. Lees, and Julie B. Staunton, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 32, 255802 (2020).
Tunability of the spin reorientation transitions with pressure in NdCo5
Santosh Kumar, Christopher E. Patrick, Rachel S. Edwards, Geetha Balakrishnan, Martin R. Lees, and Julie B. Staunton,, Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 102408 (2020).
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