Nikhil Medhekar

                             

                              Associate Professor

                                Department of Materials Science and Engineering

                                Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.


                                CV (Oct 21)            Department webpage           

PhD Students

Undergraduate/Masters Research Students

Group Alumni

PhD students:


  1. Majid Mortazavi, PhD student (2012–2014), currently postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Alexandre Tkatchenko’s group at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.

  2. Yuefeng Yin, PhD student (2012–2014), currently postdoctoral researcher at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

  3. Naresh Alaal, PhD student at IITB-Monash Academy (2014–2018), currently postdoctoral researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

  4. Bala Ananthoju, PhD student at IITB–Monash Academy (2014–2018), currently postdoctoral researcher at University of Manchester, UK.

  5. Runhong Huang, PhD student (2013–2017), currently postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Den-en Jiang’s group at University of California, Irvine.

  6. Mahdi Javadi, PhD student (2015–2019), currently postdoctoral researcher at RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia.

  7. Yong Zhang, PhD student (2016–2019), currently postdoctoral researcher at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

  8. Jodie Yuwono, PhD student (2016–2019), currently postdoctoral researcher at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

  9. Zezhong Zhang, PhD student (2016–2019), currently joint postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford, UK and University of Antwerp, Belgium.

  10. Aayush Kant, PhD student at IITB-Monash Academy (2015–2019), currently postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

  11. Paul White, PhD student (2013–2019, part time), currently at DST, Melbourne.

  12. Chutian Wang, PhD student (2018–2021).

  13. Vallabh Vasudevan, PhD student (2018–2021).



Postdoctoral researchers:


  1. Junkai Deng, postdoctoral fellow (2011–2013), currently Assistant Professor in Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.

  2. Yiqiang (Kelvin) Chen, postdoctoral fellow (2016–2017), currently postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Society of Iron Research, Dusseldorf, Germany.

  3. Mingchao Wang, postdoctoral fellow (2017–2020), currently postdoctoral researcher at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.



Undergraduate Research Students:


  1. 2017: Jessica Alves, Shiqi Liu

  2. 2016: Yan Wu, Alex Satrya

  3. 2015: Ghadeer Alame, Amalia Tsalanidis

  4. 2014: Edmund Soon, Yiming Foo, You Yi, Junjiao Deng

  5. 2013: Genevieve Hart, Richard Machet, Yuqi Jiang, Chao Wang, Qiongjie Ye, Zezhong Zhang, Nasyriq Zainudin, On Kit Chai, Luke Besley

  6. 2012: Amy He, Jack Gallagher, Simone Brennan, Runhong Huang, An Wang

  7. 2011: Vi La, Yuefeng Yin, Thomas Bullock



Visiting Researchers:


  1. 2016: Lizhi Cheng

  2. 2015: Xin Huang, Xiaofen Tan

  3. 2014: Zeyu Deng, Jun Wang

  4. 2013: Wanru Liu (currently, pursuing masters degree at University of Alberta, Canada)



Computational Materials Lab


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Visiting Researchers

Postdoctoral Researchers

Shenghan Su


Research topic: Atomistic simulations for Aluminium alloys

Abin Varghese


Research topic: Optoelectronic devices of 2D heterostructures.


Abhishek is a PhD student at IITB-Monash Research Academy.

Enamul Haque


Research topic: Electron-phonon coupling in low-dimensional materials


Yuefeng Yin


Research topic: Electronic structure of atomically thin materials

Ziyuan Zhang


Research topic: Electronic structure of atomically thin topological insulators

Hong Liu


Research topic: Modelling effects of disorder in low dimensional electronic mateerials

Victor Le


Research topic: In silico design of novel battery materials

Bernard Field


Research topic: Electronic Structure simulations of atomically thin metal organic frameworks

Madhav Sharma


Research topic: Structural and chemical stability of perovskite materials