Nitin Yadav - About me

Name

Date of birth

Nationality

Digital identifier

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Nitin Yadav

01 Jan 1989

Indian

0000-0002-8976-516X (ORCID)

nitnyadv@gmail.com, nyadav@iitd.ac.in

011-2659-8615

Work Experience

05.2025--present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi

08.2022--04.2025: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Education

10.2020--08.2022: Postdoctoral researcher, CmPA, KU Leuven, Belgium

04.2017 -- 09.2020: Post Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany

01.2015 -- 03.2017: Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher) in IIT Delhi, India, in a project entitled Waves and Instabilities and their Role in Energetics in Geospace’

07.2011 -- 10.2015: Ph.D. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India, thesis title ‘Nonlinear Alfvénic Localized Structures and Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas’, supervisor: Prof. R. P. Sharma

07.2009 -- 06.2011: Mater of Technology (Energy Studies, C.G.P.A.-9.7/10), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, thesis title ‘Laser-Matter Interaction: Resonance Absorption and Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation’, supervisor: Prof. R. P. Sharma

07.2007 -- 06.2009: Master of Science (Physics Hons., 82%), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, thesis title ‘Inverse Compton scattering’, supervisor: Prof. A. K. Bhati

07.2004 -- 06.2007: Bachelor of Science (80%) with a specialization in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, S. G. N. Khalsa College, Sriganganagar, Rajasthan, India.

Awards and Merits

01.2026 IGSTC-WISER grant (3 years)

03.2024 CSIR-ASPIRE grant (3 years)

02.2024 SERB-MATRICS grant (3 years)

07.2023 IUCAA Visiting Associateship (3 years, extendable)

08.2022 Inspire faculty fellowship award (5 years)

06.2017: Five years Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by University Grant Commission (UGC), India (declined)

06.2016: International travel support by Indian National Science Academy, India to participate in the conference ‘18th International Congress on Plasma Physics’ held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 27 June–01 July, 2016

07.2013: Foreign travel grant by the Human Resource Development Group, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India for attending ‘50th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School’ held in Culham Center for Fusion Energy, Oxfordshire,United Kingdom, 15–26 July, 2013

06.2011: Secured first rank in M. Tech. Energy Studies in IIT Delhi (C.G.P.A.-9.7/10)

03.2009: Qualified ‘Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE)’, 2009, with GATE percentile 97% (National level test for admission in IITs for pursuing M. Tech. and PhD program)

12.2008: Qualified ‘National Eligibility Test (NET)’, 2008, conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (National level test to determine eligibility for lectureship and for the award of Research Fellowship for pursuing research)