Education

• Ph. D. in Applied Physics. Yale University, 1996.
• M. Phil. in Applied Physics. Yale University, 1994.
• M. S. in Applied Physics. Yale University, 1994.
• B. Tech. in Engineering Physics. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1990.

Positions Held

• 2005 - present: Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
• May 2000 - 2005: Faculty Fellow , Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.
• June 1999 - May 2000: Research Associate, Department of Physics, Harvard University.
• June 1999 - May 2000: Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard
  University.
• June 1996 - May 1999: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University.

Academic and Professional Honours

• Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (2008): elected as a Fellow.
• National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (2007): elected as a Fellow
• B. M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad B. M. Birla Science Prize in Physics (2005).
• Materials Research Society of India MRSI Medal (2005).
• DuPont Center for Collaborative Research and Education DuPont Young Faculty Award (2003).
• Yale University, New Haven, USA (1990-91), University Fellowship.
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1990), Institute Silver Medal, Class of 1990.
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1988, 89),
  Awards for topping the Engineering Physics class.
• Mathematics Teachers Association, Maharashtra (1984),
  Mathematics Pragnya Award.
• National Talent Search (NTS): (1984-86)
  NTS Scholarship Certi cate.

Research

Research in my group has three-fold goals: (a) understand aspects of chemical bonding and microscopic couplings that are essential to the specific properties of a material, (b) obtain information about the atomistic structure and electronic states that may be hard to access experimentally, and (c) design new materials or modify existing materials to yield desired properties, or narrow down the choices of new materials for design by experiment.

• Smart Materials
• Nano-structures and molecular systems
• Development of methods

Selected Publications

• "A first-principles study of phase transitions in ultrathin films of BaTiO3", J Paul, T Nishimatsu, Y Kawazoe and U V Waghmare, Pramana 70, 264 (2008).
• "Soft modes at the stacking faults in SiC crystals: First-principles calculations", Thomas,Tiju / Pandey,Dhananjai / Waghmare,Umesh V., Phys. Rev. B 77 (Rapid Comm), 121203 (2008).
• "Effect of nearest neighbor Pb-O divacancy pairs on the ferroelectric-relaxor transition in PSN", Burton B.P., Cockayne,Eric, Tinte,Silvia and U. V. Waghmare, Phys. Rev. B 77, 144114 (2008) [also chosen as an Editor's Suggestion].
• "Coupling between magnetic ordering and structural instabilities in perovskite biferroics: A first-principles study", Nirat Ray and U. V. Waghmare, Phys. Rev. B 77, 134112 (2008).
• "Carbon nanotubes with an extended line defect", Mousumi Upadhyay-Kahaly, S. P. Singh and U. V. Waghmare, Small, accepted for publication (2008).