Prashant Sharma, PhD

Research Interests

• Physics of low-dimensional systems
• Spintronics and nanotechnology
• Physics of strongly correlated condensed matter systems

Employment History

• 2013-2016
  Department Chair of Physics, Suffolk University
• 2006-Present
  Assistant Professor of Physics, Suffolk University
• 2008
  Visiting Professor, Harish Chandra Research Institute, India
• 2006-2004
  Postdoctoral Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, IL
• 2004-2002
  Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, NY
• 1995-2002
  PhD Candidate, Boston University, MA
• 1995-1994
  Research Fellow of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian Institute of Technology, India
• 1994
  K.S. Krishnan Research Fellow in Physics, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India

Publications

• U. Hizi, Prashant Sharma, and C.L. Henley, Semiclassical ordering in the large-n pyrochlore antiferromagnet, Physical Review Letters, 95: 167203 (2005). Article Cited by: 7
• Prashant Sharma, How to Create a Spin Current, Science, 307, 531 (2005). Article Cited by: 15
• Prashant Sharma and Piet W. Brouwer, Mesoscopic effects in adiabatic spin pumping, Physical Review Letters, 91: 166801 (2003). Article Cited by: 42
• Prashant Sharma and Claudio Chamon, Quantum pump for spin and charge transport in a Luttinger liquid, Physical Review Letters, 87: 096401 (2001). Article Cited by: 74

Talks and Conferences

• Workshop for New Physics Faculty, Organized by American Association of Physics Teachers and National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., November 2008
• Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, Waimea, June 2008
• Nanotechnology Conference of the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI), Boston, June 2008
• American Physical Society Meeting, Baltimore, March 2006
• 55th meeting of Nobel laureates at Lindau, Germany, June 2005

Professional Activities

Reviewer/Referee for:

• American Physical Society Journals: Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B
• National Science Foundation: Research Grants in Condensed Matter Physics

Other Activities

• Society of Physics Students (American Institute of Physics student body) Advisor of the Suffolk Chapter that won the 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Award