Dr Surender Sharma
Lecturer
Department of Physics
Natural Sciences Building
Physics Main Office Third Floor
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone: 868-622-2002 ext: 3125
Email: surender.sharma@sta.uwi.edu
More than 12 years of post-PhD research cumulative teaching experience working in the area of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry/Physics of multifunctional nanomaterials for magnetic and biomedical applications. Worked on different research/academic positions in Brazil, France, Czech Republic, India and Mexico from 2007-2019.
Qualification
- BSc, MSc, BEd, MPhil & PhD (Physics)
Fellowships and Training
- FAPESP, Young Researcher, UNICAMP, Brazil (2007-2011
- CNRS Senior Researcher, ITODYS, Universite Paris Diderot (2011-2013)
- Awardee of Senior Researcher grant, FAPEMA-Brazil (2014-2019)
- Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India) Young Scientist award under Fast Track (2012)
- Junior Research Fellowship by Inter University Accelerator Centre, UGC, Govt. of India, New Delhi (2002-2005)
Research Interests
- Basic and applied properties of colloidal magnetic nanocrystals
- Size, shape controlled synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanohybrids
- Study of novel magnetic phenomena in superparamagnetic and complex magnetic nanostructures (core-shell or dumbbell)
- Exchange bias in core-shell nanoparticles
- Surface engineering of multifunctional nanostructures for application in biomedical applications
- Multifunctional nanomaterials including upconversion/downshifting nanoparticles for MRI, hyperthermia and photothermal therapy
- Nano scintillators
Courses Taught
- Ceramic Science
- Solid State Physics
- Quantum Mechanics
- Electrodynamics
- Classical Mechanics
- Electricity & Magnetism
- Magnetism & Superconductivity
- Nuclear Physics and Atomic Physics & Spectroscopy
- Advanced Electron Microscopy
- Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Research Projects
- Completed a four year project (co-PI) funded by FAPESP (Govt. of Sao Paulo, Brazil) on “controlling the structural and magnetic properties of the ferromagnetic nanocomposites through ion beam implantation”.
- Synthesis of ferrite based nanohybrids for magnetic and biomedical applications by FAPEMA, São Luis, Brazil (2015-2019)
- Magnetic Nanohybrids: synthesis, characterization and applications by FAPEMA, São Luis, Brazil (2016-2018)
- First Northeast international Conference in nanoscience, nanotechnology, and Nano biotechnology by FAPEMA, São Luis, Brazil (March-June 2017)
- Second Northeast international Conference in nanoscience, nanotechnology, and Nanobiotechnology by FAPEMA, São Luis, Brazil (September-March 2019)
