Dr. Madhav Prasad Ghimire is an Associate Professor at the Central Department of Physics at Tribhuvan Univeristy, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr. Ghimire completed his B. Sc (Physics) from North Eastern Hill University, India (2001), M.Sc (Physics) from Banaras Hindu University, India (2003), and PhD from Mizoram University, India (Nov. 2010). He joined Nepal Academy of Science and Technology as a Senior Scientific Officer (2011-2012). He was a NIMS Postdoctoral fellow (2012-2014) at National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, and in 2015, he received a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany. He is recently a recipient of (a) Brain Pool program as Research Professor and (b) International Collaborative Research (as Co-PI) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (2023). Since 2018, he is a faculty member of Tribhuvan university and is guiding a number of PhD and MSc students.

Awards, Honors, Projects and Achievements:

● Brain Pool Award, NRF, Korea (2023-2024)

● AvH Renewed Research & Book Grant (2022, 2023)

● UGC Collaborative Research Grant (2022-2024)

● UNESCO-TWAS Research Grant (2021-2023)

● AvH Equipments Grant (2020)

● Indian Science and Research Fellowship (ISRF) Award (2019-2020)

● HERP DLI-7B Project, Tribhuvan University (2018-2019)

● Vidhya Bhusan-Ka Medal from the President of Nepal (2018)

● Humboldt Postdoctoral Award (HERMES), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,  Germany, November (2015-2018)

● TWAS Award (for Physics), Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy (2011)

● Young Scientist Scholarship awarded for the VASP Workshop, France, August (2016)

● Awarded the NAST-INSA Bilateral Exchange Program, INSA, India (2011)

Research Interests:

● Topological phase transition in kagome materials, jacutingaite, layered materials, etc.

● Surface and interfacial properties, chemical gating and doping  in bismuth-rhodates,

● Energy efficient materials, Electronic, magnetic, and optical properties, magnetic anisotropy, etc.

Collaborations:

He has developed good international collaboration in well-recognized universities such as MIT, Harvard, Notre Dame within USA, and several institutions in Germany, Japan, Korea, India. Dr. Ghimire has published more than 80 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals including articles in Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Quantum Materials, Physical Review Journals, ACS Nano Letters, RSC journals, etc.

PhD in Physics, Mizoram University, India (2010)

M. Sc (Physics), Banaras Hindu University, India (2003)

B. Sc (Physics), North Eastern Hill University, India (2001)

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS/Experiences (for the last 10+ years)

Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Associate Prof. in Physics August, 2018 – Present

Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW- Dresden, Germany

Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow July, 2015 – July, 2018

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan

NIMS Post-Doctoral Researcher Feb. 2012 – August 2014

Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Lalitpur, Nepal

Senior Scientific Officer April, 2011 – Jan. 2012

Bose Institute, Kolkata, India [NAST-INSA Bilateral exchange program]

Visiting Scientist (supported by INSA, India) November, 2011 – December, 2011

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE HOME INSTITUTION (Tribhuvan University)

● Electrodynamics [PHY554 & PHY602] - M. Sc compulsory course (II & III-Semester)

● Computational Physics Lab [PHY604] - M. Sc compulsory course (III-Semester)

● Advanced Solid State Physics [PHY611 & PHY661] - M. Sc elective course (III & IV-Semester)

Ten Significant Publications:

1. B. P. Belbase, L. Ye, B. Karki, J. I. Facio, J.-S. You, J. G. Checkelsky, J. van den Brink, and M. P. Ghimire*, Large anomalous Hall effect in single crystals of the kagome Weyl ferromagnet Fe₃Sn, Phys. Rev. B 108, 075164 (2023).

2. P. E. Siegfried, H. Bhandari, ... M. P. Ghimire, et al., CoTe₂: A Quantum Critical Dirac Metal with Strong Spin Fluctuations, Adv. Mater. 35, 2300640 (2023).

3. B. Rasche, ..., M. P. Ghimire, et al., Determination of Cleavage Energy and Efficient Nanostructuring of Layered Materials by Atomic Force Microscopy, Nano Lett. 22, 3550 (2022).

4. B. Karki, B. P. Belbase, G. B. Acharya, S. Singh, and M. P. Ghimire*, Pressure-induced creation and annihilation of Weyl points in Td−Mo_0.5W_0.5Te₂ and 1T′′−Mo_0.5W_0.5Te₂, Phys. Rev. B 105, 125138 (2022).

5. P. E. Siegfried, H. Bhandari, D. C. Jones, M. P. Ghimire, R. L. Dally, L. Poudel, M. Bleuel, J. W. Lynn, I. I. Mazin, and N. J. Ghimire, Magnetization-driven Lifshitz transition and charge-spin coupling in the kagome metal YMn₆Sn₆, Commn. Phys. 5, s42005-022-00833-2 (2022).

6. Z. Ren, H. Li, S. Sharma, D. Bhattarai, ..., M. P. Ghimire, et al., Plethora of tunable Weyl fermions in kagome magnet Fe₃Sn₂ thin films, NPJ Quant. Mat. 7, 109 (2022).

7. M. Han, ..., M. P. Ghimire, W. J. Cho, E. Kaxiras, and J. G. Checkelsky “Evidence of two-dimensional flat band at the surface of antiferromagnetic kagome metal FeSn” Nat. Commun. 12, 5345 (2021).

8. S. Fang, L. Ye, M. P. Ghimire, M. Kang, ..., and J. G. Checkelsky, Ferromagnetic helical nodal line and Kane-Mele spin-orbit coupling in kagome metal Fe₃Sn₂, Phys. Rev. B 105, 035107 (2022).

9. D. R. Jaishi, N. Sharma, B. Karki, B. P. Belbase, R. Adhikari, and M. P. Ghimire*, “Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of half-Heusler alloys NiTZ” AIP Adv. 11, 025304 (2021).

10. S. R. Bhandari, D. K. Yadav, B. P. Belbase, M. Zeeshan, B. Sadhukhan, D. P. Rai, R. K. Thapa, G. C. Kaphle, and M. P. Ghimire*, Electronic, magnetic, optical and thermoelectric properties of Ca2Cr_1-xNi_xOsO6 double perovskites, RSC Adv., 10, 16179-16186 (2020).

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