Educational Qualifications: M.Sc. (IIT Bombay), CSIR NET, Ph.D. (ongoing from INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Nanomaterials, Device Characterization, Cryogenics, Polymer composites.

Properties of matter and sound
Laser and Spectroscopy
Applied Physics
Solid State Physics

• Resistance and magnetoresistance in platinum nanowire: Implications to Kohler’s rule
VA Shiva, A Roy, S Mátéfi-Tempfli, M Mátéfi-Tempfli, R Kiebooms, R Menon .Physica B: Condensed Matter 591, 412239
• Enhanced charge transport in highly conducting PEDOT-PSS films after acid treatment VA Shiva, R Bhatia, R Menon APS March Meeting 2016, G1. 375
• Several publications under communication

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
• Winter School 2017 on Frontiers in Materials Science, JNCASR, Bangalore
• Magneto-transport in PEDOT: PSS-SWNT composites. International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2015), Suntec, Singapore.
• Charge transport in PEDOT: PSS – carbon nanotube composites at high fields and low temperatures. International Conference on science and technology of Synthetic metals (ICSM-2014), Turku, Finland.
• Charge transport in cellulose – carbon nanotube composites at high fields and low temperatures. International Conference on science and technology of Synthetic metals (ICSM-2014), Turku, Finland.
• Charge transport in multiwalled carbon nanotube and cellulose nanocomposites. International Conference on Electro-active Polymers (ICEP 2012), BHU, Varanasi.

Academic Achievements and AWARDS RECEIVED
1. Secured 5th rank in Physical Sciences in the CSIR-NET examination (June 2009).
2. Bagged a PhD position in the prestigious University of Oxford (March 2009).
3. Ranked 19th in JEST 2009 with 99.55 percentile.
4. Ranked 102nd in GATE 2009, within top 2% of the candidates appeared.
5. Ranked 77th in IIT JAM 2007, within top 3% of the candidates appeared.
6. Ranked 1st in B.Sc. Physics Honours 3rd year examination in Banaras Hindu University.

RESOURCE PERSON
1. Conducted a short training program on “VLSI Technology” for students of CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru in Feb 2023.
2. Resource person for “JAM EXAM: Why? When? How to clear?” on 15th Oct 2020 Organized by Department of Physics, Shree Gavisiddeshwara Arts, Science, and Commerce college, Koppal.
3. Conducted “Special Coaching classes for CSIR-UGC JRF/NET Examinations” at Maharani’s Science College for Women, Bengaluru during September 2015 and May 2018.