BCMaterials & Master in New Materials invited talk: Dr. Neeraj Sharma

Neeraj completed his Ph.D. at The University of Sydney then moved to the Bragg Institute at Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) for a post-doc. He is now a lecturer in chemistry at UNSW Australia and holds an Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Research Fellowship. Neeraj has been the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Nyholm Youth Lecturer (2013/2014), won the NSW Young Tall Poppy Award and the UNSW Excellence Award for Early Career Research in 2014. Neeraj has 70 publications and has been invited to present his work at over 20 conferences. Neeraj’s research interests are based on solid state chemistry, designing new materials and investigating their structure-property relationships. He loves to undertake in situ or operando experiments of materials inside full devices, especially batteries, in order to elucidate the structural subtleties that lead to superior performance parameters. Neeraj collaborates with colleagues at the CIC and from all over the world. Neeraj also enjoys science communication and has been actively involved in projects such as www.crystalsinthecity.com. Neeraj’s research group consists of a PhD student, 3 science Honours students and 2 electrical engineering Honours students. Here is a video these students have made - https://thinkable.org/submission/2080.