Educational Background:
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Master of Science: Dept. of Physics,
IISc, Bangalore(1993).
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PhD: Department of Physics, IISc,
Bangalore (1998).
Awards/Professional Activities:
- Editorial Advisory Board member , ACS Energy Letters (2021-2023)
- MAdvisory Editorial Board member, JMMM (2021-2025).
- Member, IUPAP Commission on Computational Physics (2015- )
- MRSI Medal 2015
- Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- DAE - Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in
Physics for 2013
- TWOWS Prize for young woman scientist
in Physics/Mathematics in Asia region for 2010
- NASI-SCOPUS young scientist award in
Physics for 2010
- Council member, MRSI (2012-2015
Professional Background:
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2000-2003: Post-doctoral Researcher at
National Renewable Energy Lab, Denver, CO – USA.
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2003-2005: Assistant Professor, IIT
Madras, Chennai, India
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2005-2009 : Reader, S.N. Bose National
Center for Basic Sciences
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2009-2012 : Associate Professor, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
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2013-present : Professor, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Main area of work
- Charge, orbital and magnetic ordering
in p and d band systems
- Models for magnetism in transition
metal compounds, dilute magnetic semiconductors
- Calculation of various spectral
functions
Significant recent publications:
- Designing a lower bandgap bulk ferroelectric material with a sizable
polarization at
the room temperature, S. Das, S. Ghara, Priya Mahadevan, S. Athinarayanan,
J.
Gopalakrishnan and D.D. Sarma, ACS Energy Lett. (in Press)
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HyPe-2017: A Discussion Meeting on Hybrid Perovskites, Priya Mahadevan,
ACS
Energy Lett. 3, 733 (2018).
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Structural distortions in monolayers of binary semiconductors, Poonam
Kumari, Saikat
Debnath and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev B 97, 041404 (2018)
- Role of the A-site cation in determining the properties of hybrid
perovskites of the form
CH3NH3PbBr3, S. Sarkar and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B 95 214118 (2017)
- Quantum confinement : A route to enhance the Curie temperature of Mn
doped GaAs,
B. Mandal, Hirak Kumar Chandra, Poonam Kumari and Priya Mahadevan, Phys.
Rev. B 96, 014430 (2017).
- Doping a Dipole into an incipient ferroelectric: A route to relaxor
ferroelectrics, N Vijay
Prakash Chaudhary, S. Sarkar, N. Sharma, Ashis K Kundu, K.S.R. Menon, A.
Das, Priya
Mahadevan and A. Venimadhav, Phys. Rev. B 96, 024107 (2017).
- Doping an antiferromagnetic insulator: A route to an antiferromagnetic
metallic phase,
Shishir Kumar Pandey, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma, Europhys. Lett. 117,
57003 (2017).
- Driving force for the martensitic transformation in Ni2Mn1+xSn1-x,
Soumyadipta Pal,
Sagar Sarkar, S.K. Pandey, C. Maji and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B 94,
115143
(2016).
- Size of the Organic Cation Tunes the Band Gap of Colloidal Organolead
Bromide Perovskite
Nanocrystals, M. Mittal, A. Jana, Sagar Sarkar, Priya Mahadevan and Sameer
Sapra, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 3270 (2016).
- Physics of Ultrathin Films and Heterostructures of Rare-Earth
Nickelates, S. Middey, J.
Chakhalian, Priya Mahadevan, J.W. Freeland, A.J. Millis and D.D. Sarma,
Ann. Rev
of Mater. Res. 46, 1 (2016).
- Electronic structure of Mn0.25TaS2, S. Debnath and P. Mahadevan, J.
Elect. Spec.
and Rel. Phenom. 208, 74 (2016).
- Metal-insulator transition in Ba3Fe1-xRu2+xO9: Interplay between site
disorder, chemical
percolation and electronic structure, S. Middey, P. Aich, C. Meneghini, K.
Mukherjee,
E.V. Sampathkumaran, V. Siriguri, Priya Mahadevan and S. Ray, Phys. Rev. B
94,
184424 (2016).
- Site occupancy trend of Co in Ni2MnIn: an ab-initio approach, S. Pal,
PriyaMahadevan
and C. Biswas, AIP Conf. Proceedings, 1665, 090020 (2016).
- A model for the direct to indirect band gap transition in monolayer
MoSe2, R. Das and
P. Mahadevan , Pramana 84, 1033 (2015)
- Electronic Structure Evolution across the Peierls metal-insulator
transition in a correlated
ferromagnetic insulator, P.A. Bhobe, A. Kumar, M. Taguchi, R. Eguchi, M.
Matsunami,
Y. Takata, A.K. Nandy, P. Mahadevan, D.D. Sarma, A. Neroni, E. Sasioglu,
M. Lezaic, M. Oura, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, K. Ishizaka, M. Okawa, S. Shin, K.
Tamasaku,
Y. Kohmura, M. Yabashi, T. Ishikawa, K. Hasegawa, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, A.
Chainani,
Phys. Rev. X 5, 041004 (2015)
- Strain induced metal-insulator transition in ultrathin films of SrRuO3,
Kapil Gupta,
Basudeb Mandal and Priya Mahadevan , Phys. Rev. B 90, 125109 (2014)
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