Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Email: tushar [at] iitism.ac.in, Ph (Office): +91-326-223-5341
Office: Room No 612, 6th floor, Academic Complex
Laboratory: Room No 527-C, 5th floor, Academic Complex
Academics:
M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Dual Degree): IIT Bombay (2013) [Supervisor: Prof. A. V. Mahajan]
B.Sc. (Honors in Physics): Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Howrah, (University of Calcutta), (2005)
Professional Experience:
Assistant Professor: IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India (Since Nov 2020)
Visiting Assistant Professor: IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India (Nov 2019- Nov 2020)
Postdoc: University of Cologne, Germany (July 2018- Oct 2019) [Mentor: Prof. T. Lorenz]
Postdoc: University of Augsburg, Germany (Dec 2014- June 2018) [Mentor: Prof. P. Gegenwart]
Postdoc: IFW Dresden, Germany (Jan 2013-Nov 2014) [Mentors: Dr. S. Wurmehl and Prof. B. Buechner]
Research/Academic Visits:
ISIS Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, May 2025
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Sept 2024
IFW Dresden, Germany (June - July 2024)
IFW Dresden, Germany (May - June 2023)
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, May 2017
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, Oct 2017
ISIS Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, March 2017
International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism (HFM 2014), Cambridge, UK, July 2014
EPFL Switzerland (June-July 2012)
Itinerant Spin-Orbital Systems: From Magnetic Frustration to Novel Superconductivity, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany, May 2012
Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity, Waterville Valley, NH, USA, June 2011
Teaching Experience (at IIT Dhanbad):
NPHI101 (Engineering Physics for 1st Yr B.Tech Students), MS 24-25, WS 24-25, SS 24-25, MS 25-26,
PHC201 (Classical Mechanics for 2nd Yr B.Tech Eng. Physics), MS 20-21, MS 21-22, MS 22-23
PHE202 (Material Science and Engineering for 2nd Yr B.Tech), WS 20-21, WS 21-22, WS 22-23, WS 23-24
PHO571 (Material Characterization for PhD MSc and B.Tech Eng. Physics), WS 21-22, WS 22-23
PHD509 (Advanced Condensed Matter Physics for MSc and PhD students), MS 20-21, MS 21-22, MS 23-24
PHD507 (Plasma and Space Physics for MSc students), WS 20-21
APE34107 (Plasma and Space Physics for MSc students), WS 19-20
APC34102 (Advanced Condensed Matter Physics for MSc students), WS 19-20
Invited/Seminar Talks:
Possible Spin Liquid Behavior in Ba3MTa2O9 (M = Mn, Cu), SMS-3 Conference, IIT Hyderabad, 23 Jan 2026
Unconventional magnetism in the triple perovskite Ba3MnTa2O9, NIT Patna, 05 Jan 2026
Frustration-driven unconventional magnetism in the triple perovskite Ba3MnTa2O9, QMEC-2025, IISER Bhopal, 23 Dec 2025
Frustrated magnetism in 3d and 5d-based triple perovskite materials, AC2MP 2024, IIT Patna, 10 Dec 2024
Novel magnetism in A3BM2O9 materials, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 02 July 2024
Search for spin liquid candidates, Workshop on topology, quantum criticality and strongly correlated systems, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 16th Jan 2024
A3BM2O9 materials: A playground for novel magnetism, QMAT2023, NISER Bhubaneswar, 28 Nov 2023
A3BM2O9 materials: A playground for novel magnetism, IFW Dresden, Germany, 7th June 2023
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physics, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 27th Aug 2019
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physics, IIT (BHU)Varanasi, 8th Aug 2019
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata, 6th Aug 2019
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physics, Shiv Nadar University, 10th July 2019
Search for Kitaev spin liquid materials, Department of Physics, IIT Ropar, 9th Nov 2017
Search for Kitaev spin liquid materials, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Mohali, 6th Nov 2017
Search for Kitaev spin liquid materials, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, 3rd Nov 2017
Possible materials for realization of (i) Heisenberg-Kitaev physics in triangular lattice and (ii) excitonic magnetism, CRC-1238 seminar, University of Cologne, Germany, 19th Oct 2016
Novel magnetism in some iridium-based oxides, Department of Applied Physics, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India, 27th Oct 2015
Novel magnetism in some iridium-based oxides, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, India, 14th Oct 2015
Novel magnetism in Ir-based oxides, TRR80 Seminar, Institute for Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany, 29th July 2014
Outreach Seminars:
He is Special: A Story of Low Temperature, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Howrah, WB, 6th Sept 2025
He is Special, (Language: Bengali), One Day Physics Seminar, Garhbeta College, Paschim Medinipur, WB, 31st Jan 2025
He is Special, Society of Physics, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 6th Jan 2025