Nikhil Medhekar

                             

                              Associate Professor

                                Department of Materials Science and Engineering

                                Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.


                                CV (Oct 21)            Department webpage           

Open Postdoctoral and PhD Positions

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