Mandar M. Deshmukh Faculty Member Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Office: C 234 Lab: CG 29 and D 427 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Rd., Mumbai India 400005 Phone: +91-22-2278-2829 Fax: +91-22-2280-4610 (ATTN: Mandar Deshmukh) Email: Present research: In January 2006 I started as a faculty member at TIFR and am in the process of setting up my research lab. My interest is studying electron transport though individual nanometer scale structures. The systems that interest my group range from individual molecules, quantum dots to nanowires. The “toolkit” for studying such system includes sophisticated nanolithography techniques, low noise measurements and scanned probe techniques. Besides our interest in the physics associated with such systems we are interested in the synthesis of nanostructures as well. Past research: I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in Prof. Park’s group where I was involved in the molecular electronics effort and studying mesoscopic superconductors. I received my Ph.D in Physics from Cornell University in August ‘02. At Cornell, I was a graduate student in Prof. Dan Ralph’s group, and the focus of my thesis research was to probe magnetism using discrete “electrons-in-a-box” states within a metallic quantum dot. You are welcome to take a look at my thesis, and figure out the gory details yourself. My undergraduate degree is in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) Last Modified: March ‘09