Dr. RUCHI SHARMA PANDEY

Broad Area of Specialization: Physical Chemistry

·        Computational Chemistry: Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations

·        Water-like Anomalies

·        Network Forming Liquids

·        Molecular Modeling

·        Condensed Matter Physics

·        Recognition for outstanding contribution of using ICT based teaching and learning methodology by Spoken Tutorials, IIT Bombay (National Mission on Education through ICT, MoE, Govt. of India).

·        Ph.D. Thesis titled, “Computational Studies of Network Forming Liquids: Multiple time-scale behavior and water-like anomalies”, under Professor Charusita Chakaravarty, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Delhi

·        Highest cumulative impact factor for 6 international publications during PhD, from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi, in 2008-09, for which I received cash award and certificate of appreciation.

·        Recipient of highly coveted Junior Research Fellowship (Nov’03-Nov’05) and Senior Research Fellowship (Dec‘05 to Nov’08) through the National Eligibility Test (NET) (CSIR/UGC) for research fellowship and eligibility for lectureship held in Dec, 2002 in Chemical Sciences

·        Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) for research fellowship held in Feb’02 in chemistry

·        All India Sanskrit Board scholarship & certificate of merit for securing 98% in Sanskrit in Class X (CBSE’93)

Conferences Attended

Presenting Author

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R. Sharma, M. Agarwal and C. Chakravarty

 Entropy, Diffusivity and Structural Order in Liquids with Waterlike Anomalies

Spring College on” Water in Physics, Chemistry and Biology”, 10 - 20 April, 2007 held at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

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R. Sharma, S. N. Chakraborty and C. Chakravarty

Entropy, Diffusivity and Structural Order in Liquids with Waterlike Anomalies
School on Understanding Molecular Simulations (SUMS-07), 22 - 27 January 2007 held at JNCASR, Bangalore, India.

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R. Sharma, A. Mudi and C. Chakravarty

Multiple Time-Scale Behaviour and Diffusional Anomaly in Tetrahedral Liquids

Winter School on Computational Approaches to Materials Science (CAMS-06), 18 - 21 January 2006 held at JNCASR, Bangalore, India.

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R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Multiple Time-Scale Behaviour and Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in liquid Methanol

DAE-BRNS Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, 9 - 12 December 2004 held at BARC, Mumbai, India.

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Attended Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics-III, International Conference and School, 28 June - 1 July 2004 held at JNCASR, Bangalore, India.

Co-Author

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M. Agarwal, R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Entropy, Mobility and Structural Order in Ionic Melts with Waterlike Anomalies

Gordon Research Conference: Water and aqueous solutions, 27 July- 1 Aug 2008, held at Holderness, NH, USA

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M. Agarwal, R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Ionic Melts: Relationship between Structure, Entropy and Transport Properties

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M. Agarwal, S. N. Chakraborty, T. Goel, M.Majumder, R. Sharma and C. Chakravarty

Chemistry in Silico

I2Tech "Open House", 21 April 2007 held at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Computational Skills

Languages: Proficient in PYTHON, FORTRAN and BASIC and familiar with C/C++

Document Markup Language: LaTex

Chemical Softwares: HyperChem, ACD/Chemsketch, ISIS/Draw, MATLAB, DIAMOND, GAUSSIAN, NAMD, DL_POLY, PACKMOL, AVOGADRO, Mocubed, JMol, ORCA

Simulation Methods: Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics

Operating System: Windows:XP/7/8/10; Mac:OSX; Linux- Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu

Utility: MS Office – Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Google-Meet, Zoom, Sheets Microsoft-Teams