Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

• Postdoc, Technion, Israel, 1999-2000.
• Postdoc, Univ. Exeter, UK, 2001-04.
• Postdoc, Univ. Leeds, UK, 2004-05.
• Postdoc, Univ. California, Santa Cruz, USA, 2005-06.
• Asst. Prof., Univ. South Carolina, USA, 2006.
• Asst. Prof., IIT Delhi, India, 2006-09.
• Visiting Researcher: CEMS-RIKEN, Japan, 2008-2023.
• Associate Professor., S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, 2009-2013.
• Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, 2013-2017.
• Senior Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, 2017-till date.

• Ph.D., IACS, Jadavpur University (1999).
• M. Sc. (Physics) University of Calcutta (1992).

• Elected Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (2026)
• Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship by Royal Society, UK (2023).
• Elected Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP), UK (2021).
• Elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) (2020).
• MRSI Medal (2017).
• Featured in top 2% most influential scientists list published by Stanford-Elsevier for 2020-2025.
• UKIERI Research Award, 2008 and 2012.
• JSPS Fellowship, 2003
• Chartered Physicist, IOP, London, 2002.

• Nanomagnetism and spintronics.
• Magnetic Thin Films, Nanostructures, Multilayers, Heterostructures.
• Spin-orbitronics: Spin Hall Effect, Spin Pumping, Rashba Effect, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction.
• Magnonics: Magnonic crystals, Hybrid, Topological and Quantum Magnonics.
• Spintronics in Quantum, Topological & 2D Materials, Antiferromagnets, Heusler Alloys.
• Magnetic Skyrmions, Domain Walls, Vortex.
• Ultrafast Spin, Carrier and Phonon Dynamics.
• Straintronics, Surface Acoustic Waves.
• Three Dimensional Nanomagnetism, Artificial Spin Ice.
• Ultrafast and THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and Microscopy.
• Brillouin Light Scattering, Ferromagnetic Resonance, Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy.
• Numerical Modelling: Micromagnetic Simulations, Plane-Wave Method.

• Supervised more than 100 Research Students and Postdoctoral Fellows and Scientists. That includes 36 PhD students (26 completed, 10 ongoing).

Secured 16 Research Grants (14 completed, 2 ongoing).

• Associate Editor of npj Spintronics.

• Sectional Committee Member (Physics) of Indian Academy of Sciences (2021-2024).

• Editorial Board Member of Nanotechnology.

• Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports.

• Editorial Board Member of Pramana (2021-2025).

• Reviewer of more than 50 international journals including: Springer-Nature, APS, AIP, IOP, ACS, IEEE, Wiley, Elsevier journals.

• Reviewer of Research Grants from German Research Foundation, National Science Centre Poland, Swiss National Science Foundation, Netherlands Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, Czech Science Foundation, NIE, Strasbourg, France, CEFIPRA (Indo-French), DST India, CSIR India, ANRF.

• Guest-Editor of special issues/roadmap of IOP, AIP, Hindawi journals.

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• Harnessing GHz Frequency Spin-Orbit Torque for Spin-Wave Amplification in Nanomagnets, Pratap Kumar Pal, Raisa Fabiha, Amrit Kumar Mondal, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, and Anjan Barman, Advanced Functional Materials e22422 (2025).
• Electrical control of ultrafast magnetic speeds in graphene spin-field-effect junctions, David Muradas Belinchón^Ï®, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay^Ï®, Francesco Foggetti, Surya N. Panda, Olof Karis, Peter M. Oppeneer, Anjan Barman^*, and M. Venkata Kamalakar^*, Physical Review Letters 135, 097001 (2025); Selected as Editor’s Suggestion and Cover Article of PRL.
• Deciphering Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide/ Permalloy Heterostructures by Brillouin Light Scattering and First-Principles Calculations, S. Pal, M. Nur Hasan, H. Bangar, N. Salehi, M. Pereiro, P. ThunstrÓ§m, P. K. Muduli, D. Karmakar and A. Barman, ACS Nano 19, 23564–23574 (2025).
• Spin Pumping in Magnetostrictive Galfenol Interfaced with Ta, Ajit Kumar Sahoo, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Bikram Baghira, Jeyaramane Arout Chelvane, Jyoti Ranjan Mohanty and Anjan Barman Advanced Functional Materials 2424006 (2025).
• Room Temperature Evolution of Laser Induced Ultrafast Spin and Phonon Dynamics in 2D van der Waals Magnets FexGeTe2 (x = 3, 4, 5), Arundhati Adhikari, Bipul Kumar Mahato, Sourav Sahoo, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Mainak Palit, Satyabrata Bera, Subhadeep Datta, Mintu Mondal and Anjan Barman, Advanced Functional Materials 35, 2418006 (2025).
• Role of Spin Transport on Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Weyl Semimetal (Co₂MnGa)/Pt Heterostructures with High Spin-Mixing Conductance, Soma Dutta, Surya Narayan Panda, Anastasios Markou, Claudia Felser, Edouard Lesne and Anjan Barman, Advanced Functional Materials 35, 2413194 (2024).
• Ion-pairing propensity in guanidinium salts dictates their protein (de)stabilization behaviour, Ria Saha, Subhadip Chakraborty, Krishnendu Sinha, Partha Pyne, Shreya Pal, Anjan Barman, Suman Chakrabarty and Rajib Kumar Mitra, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 15, 10341 (2024).
• Brillouin Light Scattering Spectral Fingerprinting of Magnetic Microstates in Artificial Spin Ice, Amrit Kumar Mondal, Avinash Kumar Chaurasiya, Kilian D. Stenning, Alex Vanstone, Jack. C. Gartside, Will. R. Branford and Anjan Barman, Nano Today 59, 102497 (2024).
• Femtosecond Laser-Induced Transient Magnetization Enhancement and Ultrafast Demagnetization Mediated by Domain Wall Origami, Amrit Kumar Mondal, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Peter Heinig, Ruslan Salikhov, Olav Hellwig, and Anjan Barman, ACS Nano 18, 16914 (2024).
• All-Optical Observation of Giant Spin Transparency at the Topological Insulator BiSbTe_1.5Se_1.5/Co₂₀Fe₆₀B₂₀ Interface, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Pratap Kumar Pal, Subhadeep Manna, Chiranjib Mitra, Anjan Barman, NPG Asia Materials 15, 57 (2023).
• Formation of Binary Magnon Polaron in a two-dimensional artificial magneto-elastic crystal, Sudip Majumder, J. L. Drobitch, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay and Anjan Barman, NPG Asia Materials 15, 51 (2023).
• Acousto-Plasmo-Magnonics: Coupling Spin Waves with Hybridized Phonon-Plasmon Waves in a Two-dimensional Artificial Magnonic Crystal, Sreya Pal, Pratap Kumar Pal, Raisa Fabiha, Supriyo Bandyopadhyay and Anjan Barman, Advanced Functional Materials 33, 2304127 (2023).
• R. Fabiha, J. Lundquist, S. Majumder, E. Topsakal, A. Barman and S. Bandyopadhyay, Spin Wave Electromagnetic Nano-Antenna Enabled by Tripartite Phonon-Magnon-Photon Coupling, Advanced Science 2104622 (2022).
• S. Sahoo, A. May, A. van Den Berg, A. K. Mondal, S. Ladak and A. Barman, Observation of Coherent Spin Waves in a Three-Dimensional Artificial Spin Ice Structure, Nano Letters 21, 4629 (2021).
• A. K. Chaurasiya, A. K. Mondal, J. C. Gartside, K. D. Stenning, A. Vanstone, S. Barman, W. R. Branford, and A. Barman, Comparison of Spin-Wave Modes in Connected and Disconnected Artificial Spin Ice Nanotructure using Brillouin Light Scattering Spectroscopy, ACS Nano 15, 11734 (2021).
• S. N. Panda, S. Majumder, S. Choudhury, A. Bhattacharya, S. Sinha, A. Barman, Femtosecond laser induced spin dynamics in Single Layer Graphene/CoFeB Thin Films, Nanoscale 13, 13709 (2021).
• S. N. Panda, S. Majumder, A. Bhattacharyya, S. Dutta, S. Choudhury and A. Barman, Structural Phase Dependent Giant Interfacial Spin Transparency in W/CoFeB Thin Film Heterostructure, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, 20875 (2021).
• S. Choudhury, A. K. Chaurasiya, A. K. Mandal, B. Rana, K. Miura, H. Takanashi, Y. Otani and A. Barman, Voltage Controlled On-Demand Magnonic Nanochannels, Science Advances 6, eaba5457 (2020).
• S. N. Panda, S. Mondal, J. Sinha, S. Choudhury and A. Barman, All Optical Detection of Spin Transparency by Spin Pumping in ?-Ta/CoFeB Thin Films, Science Advances 5, eaav7200 (2019).
• S. Mondal, M. A. Abeed, K. Dutta, A. De, S. Sahoo, A. Barman and S. Bandyopadhyay, Hybrid magneto-dynamical modes in a single magnetostrictive nanomagnet on a piezoelectric substrate, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 43970 (2018).
• S. Mondal and A. Barman, Laser Controlled Spin Dynamics of Ferromagnetic Thin Film from Femtosecond to Nanosecond Timescale, Physical Review Applied 10, 054037 (2018).
• A. K. Chaurasiya, S. Choudhury, J. Sinha and A. Barman Dependence of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on layer thicknesses in Ta/Co-Fe-B/TaOx heterostructures from Brillouin light scattering, Physical Review Applied 9, 014008 (2018).
• S. Sahoo, S. Barman, G. Williams, A. May, S. Ladak and A. Barman, Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in a nanoscale Three-dimensional Cobalt tetrapod Structure, Nanoscale 10, 9981 (2018).
• S. Choudhury, S. Barman, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Efficient Modulation of Spin Waves in Two-Dimensional Octagonal Magnonic Crystal, ACS Nano 11, 8814 (2017).
• S. Mondal, S. Choudhury, N. Jha, A. Ganguly, J. Sinha and A. Barman, All-optical Detection of the Spin Hall Angle in W/CoFeB/SiO2 Heterostructures by Varying Tungsten Layer Thickness, Physical Review B 96, 054414 (2017).
• S. Choudhury, S. Saha, R. Mandal, S. Barman, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Shape and Interface Induced Control of Spin Dynamics of Two-dimensional Bi-component Magnonic Crystals, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 18339 (2016).
• S. Pal, S. Saha, M. V. Kamalakar, and A. Barman, Field Dependent Spin Waves in High Aspect Ratio Single Crystalline Ferromagnetic Nanowires, Nano Research 9, 1426 (2016).
• S. Saha, S. Barman, Y. Otani and A. Barman, All-Optical Investigation of Tunable Picosecond Magnetization Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Nanostripes with Width Down to 50 nm, Nanoscale 7, 18312 (2015).
• A. Ganguly, K. Kondou, H. Sukegawa, S. Mitani, S. Kasai, Y. Niimi, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Thickness Dependence of Spin Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance in Co50Fe50/Pt Bilayer Films, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 072405 (2014).
• S. Saha, R. Mandal, S. Barman, D. Kumar, B. Rana, Y. Fukuma, S. Sugimoto, Y. Otani and A. Barman, Tunable Magnonic Spectra in Two Dimensional Magnonic Crystals with Variable Lattice Symmetry, Advanced Functional Materials, 23, 2378 (2013).
• R. Mandal, S. Saha, D. Kumar, S. Barman, S. Pal, B. Rana, K. Das, A. K. Raychaudhuri, Y. Fukuma, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Optically Induced Tunable Magnetization Dynamics in Nanoscale Co Antidot Lattices, ACS Nano 6, 3397 (2012).
• B. Rana, D. Kumar, S. Barman, S. Pal, Y. Fukuma, Y. Otani and A. Barman, Detection of picosecond magnetization dynamics of 50 nm magnetic dots down to the single dot regime, ACS Nano 5, 9559 (2011).
• S. Pal, B. Rana, O. Hellwig, T. Thompson, and A. Barman, Tunable magnonic frequency and damping in [Co/Pd]8 multilayers with variable Co layer thickness, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 082501 (2011).
• S. Sugimoto, Y. Fukuma, S. Kasai, T. Kimura, A. Barman and Y. Otani, Dynamics of coupled vortices in a pair of ferromagnetic disks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 197203 (2011).
• A. Barman and S. Barman, Dynamic dephasing of magnetization precession in arrays of thin magnetic nanoelements, Phys. Rev. B 79, 144415 (2009).
• A. Barman, S. Wang, J. Maas, A. R. Hawkins, S. Kwon, A. Liddle, J. Bokor, and H. Schmidt, Magneto-optical observation of picosecond dynamics of single nanomagnets, Nano Letters 6, 2939 (2006).