Dr Rajeev Kumar Sharma is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, where he has been on faculty since April 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics (2008) and M.Sc. in Physics (2002) from Panjab University, Chandigarh, and a B.Sc. degree from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla (2000). His field of specialization is Nuclear and Particle Physics, with research interests focused on CP violation, physics beyond the Standard Model. His research interest also includes moisture content measurement of crops using nuclear radiation method.  Dr. Sharma has been actively involved in the searches for new physics at the Belle-2 experiment at Japan and previous contributions to the study of B-meson decays using the Belle Detector at the KEK-B Factory (Belle exeperiment). He successfully completed two SERB funded project on Belle/Belle-II experiment. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications (>100) in reputed journals, including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Journal of Macromolecular Science. Notable among these are his contributions to the observation of an excited Ω⁻ baryon, the measurement of τ lepton polarization in B decays, and the search for CP violation in D⁰ decays. In addition to his academic and research pursuits, Dr. Sharma has received several prestigious fellowships and honors, including the CSIR Junior Research Fellowship, the INFN-CERN Fellowship for work at the LHCb experiment at CERN, the JSPS Fellowship for research at the Belle experiment in Japan, and the Early Career Research Award from SERB, New Delhi. He has guided 22 M.Sc. students as Major advisor and 1 Ph.D. student as co-advisor. She has attended and presented papers in 27 conferences. He is life member of various societies including Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) and Indian Physics Teachers. In addition to his core research, Dr. Sharma is deeply involved in physics education and outreach, serving as the regional coordinator for IAPT (Punjab & J&K), aiming to foster scientific curiosity and academic excellence in young physicists.

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects Completed:

1. 1. Study of B-Decays with Belle Detector at KEK-B Factory funded by SERB in 2014 as PI.

• Searches for new Physics at Belle-2 experiment funded by SERB in 2018 as PI.

Research Publications:

1. 1. Cao L, Sutcliffe W, Tonder R V, Kumar R et al. (The Belle collaboration) 2021. Measurement of the differential branching fractions of inclusive B → Xlν decay. Phys Rev Lett 127:261801 (NAAS Rating  14.60)
   2. Murria M and Kumar R 2021. Structural, optical and acoustical characterization of polyvinyl alcohol dispersed cadmium selenide nanocomposites. J Macro Mol Sci Part B 60:928 – 946 (NAAS Rating  6.90)
   3. Grewal J K, Kuar, M, Sharma, R K et al. 2022. Structural and photocatalytic studies on oxygen hyperstoichiometric titanium-substituted strontium ferrite nanoparticles. Magnetochemistry 8:120 (NAAS Rating  8.72)
   4. Zani L, Adamczyk K, Aggarwal, L, Aihara, H, Kumar, R et al. (The Belle-II SVD collaboration) 2022. The silicon vertex detector of the Belle II experiment. NuclInst Meth in Phys Sec A: 1038:166952 (NAAS Rating  7.50)
   5. Choudhary S, Sandiliya S, Trabelsi K, Giri, A, Kumar R et al. (The Belle collaboration) 2023.  Measurement of the B+/B0 production ratio in e+e− collisions at the Υ(4S) resonance using B→J/ψ(ℓℓ)K decays at Belle. Phys Rev D 107:L031102 (NAAS Rating  11.0)

Awards and Recognitions:

1. CSIR-JRF Fellowship
2. INFN-CERN Fellowship, LHCb experiment, CERN, Geneva.
3. JSPS Fellowship, Belle experiment at KEK, Japan.
4. Early Career Research Award (SERB, New Delhi)