Dr. Ashwini Kumar Sharma Professor Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati - 781 039, Assam, INDIA e-mail:    aksharma@iitg.ernet.in Phone:  +91-361-258-2724 (Off.), 4724 (Res.) Fax:        +91-361-2582749 / 2690762

ACADEMIC

         Educational Qualifications

         Master of Science (Physics)             : Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (1997).          

         Bachelor of Science                         : Christ Church College, Kanpur University (1994).          

         Senior Secondary School                 : Kendriya Vidyalaya, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1991).          

         High School                                     : Kendriya Vidyalaya, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1989).

         Awards/Honors/Scholarships

• Paper titled Effect of uniform magnetic field on laser-produced Cu plasma and the deposited particles on the target surface by K. S. Singh, A. Khare, and A. K. Sharma published in Laser Part. Beams 35, 313 (2017)appeared amongst the top ten most read regular articles over the last 30 days since publication in 2017 in the journal Laser and Particle Beams (Cambridge University Press).
• Paper titled Multi-structured temporal behavior of neutral copper transitions in laser-produced plasma in the presence of variable transverse static magnetic field by Kh. Shantakumar Singh and A. K. Sharma published in Phys. Plasmas 23, 013304 (2016) appeared amongst the most read regular articles in 2016 in the journal Physics of Plasmas (AIP publishing).
• Paper titled Reactive Pulsed Laser Ablation: Plasma Studies by R. K. Thareja and A. K. Sharma published in Laser and Particle Beams 24, 311 (2006), listed by the editorial of the journal in hot paper section (Hoffmann D. H. H., Laser and Particle Beams 25, 329 (2007)).
• Indian Laser Association best PhD thesis award, 2004.         

         Research experience

        2021, June – till date                        : Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati

        2014, August – 2021, June              : Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati

        2007, December – 2014, August     : Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati

        2005, June – 2007, November        : Post Doctoral Fellow, IPPT, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

        2005, January – 2005, May            : Senior Project Scientist, Centre for Laser Technology, IIT Kanpur

        2004, October – 2005, January      : DAAD-DST Exchange Program, IPPT, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

        2004, August – 2004, October       : Project Research Assistant, Centre for Laser Technology, IIT Kanpur

        2004, May – 2004, August             : Project  Senior Research Assistant, Centre for Laser Technology, IIT Kanpur

        2000, October – 2001, July            : Project Assistant, IPPT, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

        1997, July – 2005, April                 : Graduate Student, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur