Nidhi Adhlakha

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Professional Experience: 

1. Postdoctoral Researcher at Solid State Physics Group, Department of Physics, University of Turin, Turin, Italy (2014-2015)
2. Postdoctoral Researcher (with TRIL Fellowship from ICTP-UNESCO) at Free Electron Laser Facility, Elettra Sincrotrone Light Source, Trieste, Italy (2016- 2017)
2. Postdoctoral Researcher at Free Electron Laser Facility, Elettra Sincrotrone Light Source, Trieste, Italy (2017- 2020)

Additional Affiliation:
1. Visiting Researcher (short term) at “Synchrotron Related Theory Group” at The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (2016)
2. Associate Member, INFN, Section of Turin, Turin (2014-2015)

Contact Details

E-mail: 

adlakha.nidhi@gmail.com
nidhi@nitk.edu.in
Academic Background

B.Sc (Physics) Panjab University, Chandigarh, India (2007)
M.Sc (Physics) Panjab University, Chandigarh, India (2009)
Ph.D. (Physics) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India (2014)

Areas of Interest

Low Dimensional Materials
Topological Insulators
Ferroelectrics/Multiferroics Ceramics
Magnetoelectric composites for device applications
Ultrafast Terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS)

Achievements

Awards/Fellowships:

1. National Scholarship Award for outstanding performance in Matric Examination from the Government of Punjab in 2002.
2. Awarded a "Certificate of Merit" for being placed in statewise top 1% in the National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) 2006-2007 conducted by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT).
3. Qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) with Junior/Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR-UGC, India in Physical Sciences (December 2008).
4. Qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE), Physics, 2009, All India Rank: 200; Percentile: 96%.
5. "Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL)" Fellowship funded by International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy during 2016-2017.
6. Institute Fellowship, Elettra Sincrotrone Light Source, Trieste, Italy (2017- 2020).

Significant Travel Grants:

1. Travel Grant to participate and give a talk in "International conference on Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics" at Munich, Germany; awarded by Elettra Sinctrotrone, Trieste, Italy (2019).
2. Financial support by European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France for performing Beamtime Experiments on “Structural and functional modulations induced by direct-writing X-ray nanolithography in technologically relevant oxides” at ESRF (2015).
3. International Travel Support Awarded by Science and Engineering Board, DST, India for giving Oral Presentation at "ICMAT 2013: International conference on materials for advanced technologies" in Suntec, Singapore (2013).

Special Hightlights:

1. Our Research on “Terahertz tuning of Dirac plasmons in Bi2Se3 Topological Insulator” mentioned in "Elettra Highlights" of Elettra Sincrotrone Light Trieste, Italy (2020, Section: Structure and Dynamics, Page: 84-85).
2. Our Research on “THz-pump/THz-probe time-resolved spectroscopy at TeraFERMI” mentioned in "Elettra Highlights" of Elettra Sincrotrone Light Trieste, Italy (2018, Section: Photon Sources and Instrumentation, pages: 132-133).
3. Our Research on “A superconducting device drawn by focused X-rays without etching the crystal”, mentioned in "ESRF Highlights" at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France (2016, Section: X-ray Nanoprobe, Page: 35-36).

 

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Department of Physics, NITK, Surathkal
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Karnataka, India.

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