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Educational Background:
Master of Science: Dept. of Physics, IISc, Bangalore (1993).
PhD: Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore (1998).
Awards/Professional Activities:
TWOWS Prize for young woman scientist in Physics/Mathematics in Asia region for 2010.
NASI-SCOPUS young scientist award in Physics for 2010.
Executive Board member, MRSI Kolkata chapter.
Council member, MRSI.
Editorial board member, Chinese Journal of Physics.
Professional Background:
1998-2000: Post-doctoral Researcher at JRCAT, Tsukuba, Japan.
2000-2003: Post-doctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Lab, Denver, CO – USA.
2003-2005: Assistant Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
2005-2009 : Reader, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences
2009-present : Associate Professor , S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences
Main area of work
Electronic, magnetic, optical and mechanical properties of nanomaterials
Photoemission, inverse photoemission, x-ray absorption, auger spectroscopy of strongly correlated systems
Magneto-crystalline anisotropy calculations for thin films, interfaces
Surface electronic structure of transition metal oxides
Models for magnetism in dilute magnetic semiconductors/oxides, bulk oxides
Electronic structure and microscopic modeling of semiconductor heterostructures
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- Microscopic models for ferroelectric materials/ multiferroic materials
- Charge and orbital ordering in strongly correlated systems
- Estimation of electronic and magnetic interaction strengths from ab-initio calculations
Significant recent publications:
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Dependence of magnetism on the GdFeO3 distortion in the
t2g system ARuO3 (A=Sr, Ca), S. Middey, Priya Mahadevan
and D.D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. B 83, 014416 (2011).
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Size dependence of the bulk modulus of semiconductor nanocrystals
from first-principles calculations, R. Cherian, C. Gerard,
Priya Mahadevan, N.T. Cuong and R. Maezono, Phys. Rev. B 82, 235321
(2010).
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Absence of rippling in graphene under biaxial tensile strain,
Bipul Rakshit and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B 82, 153407 (2010).
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KO2: Realization of orbital ordering in a p-orbital system,
A.K. Nandy, Priya Mahadevan, P. Sen and D.D. Sarma,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056403 (2010)
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Charge ordering induced ferromagnetic insulator : K2Cr8O16,
Priya Mahadevan, Abhinav Kumar, D. Choudhury and D.D. Sarma, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 104, 256401 (2010).
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