Dr. Madhav Prasad Ghimire is an Associate Professor at the Central Department of Physics at Tribhuvan Univeristy, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr. Ghimire completed his B. Sc (Physics) from North Eastern Hill University, India (2001), M.Sc (Physics) from Banaras Hindu University, India (2003), and PhD from Mizoram University, India (Nov. 2010). He joined Nepal Academy of Science and Technology as a Senior Scientific Officer (2011-2012). He was a NIMS Postdoctoral fellow (2012-2014) at National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, and in 2015, he received a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany. He is recently a recipient of (a) Brain Pool program as Research Professor and (b) International Collaborative Research (as Co-PI) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (2023). Since 2018, he is a faculty member of Tribhuvan university and is guiding a number of PhD and MSc students.

Awards, Honors, Projects and Achievements:

● Tribhuvan University Research Excellence Award (2024)

● Brain Pool Research Award, NRF, Korea (2023-2024)

● AvH Renewed Research & Book Grant (2022, 2023)

● UGC Collaborative Research Grant (2022-2024)

● UNESCO-TWAS Research Grant (2021-2023)

● AvH Equipments Grant (2020)

● Indian Science and Research Fellowship (ISRF) Award (2019-2020)

● HERP DLI-7B Project, Tribhuvan University (2018-2019)

● Vidhya Bhusan-Ka Medal from the President of Nepal (2018)

● Humboldt Postdoctoral Award (HERMES), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,  Germany, November (2015-2018)

● TWAS Award (for Physics), Third World Academy of Sciences, Italy (2011)

● Young Scientist Scholarship awarded for the VASP Workshop, France, August (2016)

● Awarded the NAST-INSA Bilateral Exchange Program, INSA, India (2011)

Postdoctoral, PhD and Master Student’s Supervision:

Dr. Ghimire has supervised one Postdoctoral Researcher, multiple doctoral (PhD) students (3 Completed, 8-ongoing. He has also supervised over 50 M.Sc. theses, with more than 35 students later pursuing Ph.D. programs abroad (USA). His active international collaborations include partnerships with institutions such as MIT, Harvard University, IFW Dresden, NIMS Japan, Korea, and several leading universities across Asia, Europe, and the USA.

Reviewer:

He also serves as reviewer for more than 100 articles in leading international journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, and many more.

More information about Dr. Ghimire’s  can be found here: https://amrl.madhavpghimire.com.np/

PhD in Physics,   

                  Mizoram University, India (2010)

M. Sc (Physics),

                   Banaras Hindu University, India (2003)

B. Sc (Physics),

                   North Eastern Hill University, India (2001)

Assistant Dean    Institute of Science & Technology Tribhuvan University, Nepal from  1 April, 2026

Associate Prof.    Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal from August 2018

Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow:   Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, IFW- Dresden, Germany  from July, 2015 – July, 2018

 Post-Doctoral Researcher:  National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan From  Feb. 2012 – August 2014

Senior Scientific Officer:  Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Lalitpur, Nepal from April, 2011 – Jan. 2012

Visiting Scientist:   Bose Institute, Kolkata, India [NAST-INSA Bilateral exchange program]  (supported by INSA, India) from November, 2011 – December, 2011

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE HOME INSTITUTION (Tribhuvan University)

● Electrodynamics [PHY554 & PHY602] - M. Sc compulsory course (II & III-Semester)

● Computational Physics Lab [PHY604] - M. Sc compulsory course (III-Semester)

● Advanced Solid State Physics [PHY611 & PHY661] - M. Sc elective course (III & IV-Semester)

Ten Significant Publications:

1. B. P. Belbase, L. Ye, B. Karki, J. I. Facio, J.-S. You, J. G. Checkelsky, J. van den Brink, and M. P. Ghimire*, Large anomalous Hall effect in single crystals of the kagome Weyl ferromagnet Fe₃Sn, Phys. Rev. B 108, 075164 (2023).

2. P. E. Siegfried, H. Bhandari, ... M. P. Ghimire, et al., CoTe₂: A Quantum Critical Dirac Metal with Strong Spin Fluctuations, Adv. Mater. 35, 2300640 (2023).

3. B. Rasche, ..., M. P. Ghimire, et al., Determination of Cleavage Energy and Efficient Nanostructuring of Layered Materials by Atomic Force Microscopy, Nano Lett. 22, 3550 (2022).

4. B. Karki, B. P. Belbase, G. B. Acharya, S. Singh, and M. P. Ghimire*, Pressure-induced creation and annihilation of Weyl points in Td−Mo_0.5W_0.5Te₂ and 1T′′−Mo_0.5W_0.5Te₂, Phys. Rev. B 105, 125138 (2022).

5. P. E. Siegfried, H. Bhandari, D. C. Jones, M. P. Ghimire, R. L. Dally, L. Poudel, M. Bleuel, J. W. Lynn, I. I. Mazin, and N. J. Ghimire, Magnetization-driven Lifshitz transition and charge-spin coupling in the kagome metal YMn₆Sn₆, Commn. Phys. 5, s42005-022-00833-2 (2022).

6. Z. Ren, H. Li, S. Sharma, D. Bhattarai, ..., M. P. Ghimire, et al., Plethora of tunable Weyl fermions in kagome magnet Fe₃Sn₂ thin films, NPJ Quant. Mat. 7, 109 (2022).

7. M. Han, ..., M. P. Ghimire, W. J. Cho, E. Kaxiras, and J. G. Checkelsky “Evidence of two-dimensional flat band at the surface of antiferromagnetic kagome metal FeSn” Nat. Commun. 12, 5345 (2021).

8. S. Fang, L. Ye, M. P. Ghimire, M. Kang, ..., and J. G. Checkelsky, Ferromagnetic helical nodal line and Kane-Mele spin-orbit coupling in kagome metal Fe₃Sn₂, Phys. Rev. B 105, 035107 (2022).

9. D. R. Jaishi, N. Sharma, B. Karki, B. P. Belbase, R. Adhikari, and M. P. Ghimire*, “Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of half-Heusler alloys NiTZ” AIP Adv. 11, 025304 (2021).

10. S. R. Bhandari, D. K. Yadav, B. P. Belbase, M. Zeeshan, B. Sadhukhan, D. P. Rai, R. K. Thapa, G. C. Kaphle, and M. P. Ghimire*, Electronic, magnetic, optical and thermoelectric properties of Ca2Cr_1-xNi_xOsO6 double perovskites, RSC Adv., 10, 16179-16186 (2020).

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