2021
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Why did you choose to do a PhD?
To be honest, during my undergraduate studies, I was passionate about Physics and wanted to explore that passion and to create valuable advancement in my research interest. I enjoyed doing more experiments and wanted to expand my perspectives by creating something entirely new. The only finest opportunity I realized during my undergrads is pursuing a PhD degree and exploring these concepts in detail. One of the great things in PhD which I learned is to conduct even your own research and contribute to the subject.
Why did you choose to do graduate education at NUS? If you received offers from other universities, why did you pick NUS?
“First, I am honored and proud to be the recipient of NUS Alumni.
NUS is perennially Asia’s best university and one of the top overall universities in the world. Attending NUS was a dream after I graduated bachelor’s and master’s degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal. NUS signifies the highest pursuit of excellence, and I was truly inspired by the NUS vibrant and respectful culture of learning.
My PhD Supervisor Prof Ariando and Prof Venky are world-leading experts in the oxide research community. I was excited by their research interest and projects. This was also one of the major reasons why I have decided to pursue my PhD in NUS.”
How does graduate school compare to your undergraduate experience?
The Experience of graduate school in NUS was totally enthralling compared to my undergraduate studies in India. I never had such an amazing vibrant multicultural eco-friendly cultural experience anywhere before. On the other hand, in my PhD, I had a quite clear idea of research from the beginning which was not available during my undergraduate.
Briefly share about your research or thesis (i.e. dissertation topic for Masters by Coursework students).
My research centers around the physics and devices of functional materials, with a particular emphasis on the strongly correlated complex oxides. My research work aims to explore correlated oxides that can exhibit a strong spin-orbit effect and triggers a fascinating quantum phenomenon.
What impact do you hope to have with your research?
With the dawn of the internet-of-things and artificial intelligence, computing power and big data are essential, where current devices’ inefficiency is the major obstacle. I am designing and developing spintronics devices with the motivation to solve the pressing problem of high energy consumption in CMOS technology. By exploring new device concepts, I strongly believe, I can create a strong impact on semiconducting technologies.
Academic Activities
“My greatest accomplishment was to receive the Materials Research Society (Singapore) Medal, a gold medal is awarded to the Doctor of Philosophy graduate in the Department of Physics with the most outstanding thesis. I have received several other academic awards during PhD studies in NUS, including Best Graduate Researcher Award (2020), IEEE Gold Medallist in Magnetic Symposium (2020), and Global Young Scientist Summit (2020).
I have been invited to speak about my research work at an International Conference on Functional Materials Science 2020 (5th ICFMS 2020). This year, I have been invited from several universities and institutes in India to speak about my research work and to encourage undergraduate students about career opportunities in Physics. Details can be found in my webpage (https://sites.google.com/view/ganeshjiomar/home).
During my PhD, I learned that the only route to achieve any award or achievement is to keep doing your work steadily without distraction.”
Other Endeavours
At the moment, I am not engaged in any entrepreneurial activity. But in the future, I have decided to translate my innovative ideas into reality and develop entrepreneurial skills.