Background

I completed a Master of Physics (MPhys) degree at the University of York in 2020. My PhD involved researching highly frustrated magnets using neutron scattering under the supervision of Dr Oleg Petrenko.

Publications

M. Islam, N. d’Ambrumenil, D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, F. Orlandi, J. Ollivier, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Bal-
akrishnan, O. A. Petrenko, Magnetic structure, excitations and field induced transitions in the honeycomb lattice compound Er₂Si₂O₇, Physical Review B 2024, 109, 094420 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.094420Link opens in a new window

M. Islam, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, O. A. Petrenko, Frustrated Magnet Mn₃Al₂Ge₃O₁₂ Garnet: Crystal Growth by the Optical Floating Zone Method. Crystals 2023, 13, 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13030397Link opens in a new window

Conferences

Talks

26th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography 2023, Melbourne

21st Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting 2023, Abingdon

2022 Winter Crystallography Meeting, RAL (held in 2023)

International Conference on Neutron Scattering 2022, Buenos Aires

Posters

11th International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2022, Paris

20th Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting 2022, Abingdon

UK Neutron & Muon Science and User Meeting 2022, Warwick

Magnetism 2022, York

ISIS Student Meeting 2021

Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials 2021

Courses Taken

17th Oxford School for Neutron Scattering 2022Link opens in a new window

PCG Intensive Summer School 2021Link opens in a new window

Representational Analysis of Magnetic Structures (RAMS) 2021

PX446 Condensed Matter Physics IILink opens in a new window 2020/21

Teaching Duties

I was a tutor in the first year PX149: Mathematics for PhysicistsLink opens in a new window problem classes and a demonstrator for the first year electronics laboratory.

For questions on Manisha's PhD work please write to

Oleg Petrenko
Superconductivity and Magnetism Group
Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Contact Details

E-Mail:

manisha dot islam at psi dot ch

Telephone:

+41 56 310 43 20

Address:

Paul Scherrer Institut PSI
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Schweiz