Meet the editors

Dr. Poorva Sharma is an associate professor at Key Laboratory of Multifunctional Materials and Magnetoelectric Devices, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Luzhou Vocational and Technical College, China. Dr. Sharma received her Ph.D. in Physics from the School of Physics, Devi Ahilya University, India in 2015. Her thesis was devoted to experimental work on perovskite-based multiferroic materials. From

2016 to 2018, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. S.X. Cao and Prof. W. Ren at the International Centre of Quantum and Molecular Structures (ICQMS), Department of Physics, Shanghai University. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship, she served as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Physics, at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. Dr. Sharma received a Young Scientist training fellowship from the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MPCST), India; the IUCr Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Crystallography; and Best Paper Awards from the Luzhou Chemistry and Chemical Society and Luzhou Association of Science and Technology, China. Her primary research is devoted to rare-earth orthoferrite, multiferroic, manganite, and metal oxide materials to provide a solution for advanced sustainable, and economical spintronic, memory devices, and magnetic data storage devices. She has been the author/co-author of more than fifty research papers in indexed journals. She has participated in many national and international conferences.

Dr. Ashwini Kumar received a Ph.D. in Physics from Devi Ahilya University Indore, India in 2014. Currently, he is an associate professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Luzhou Vocational and Technical College, China, and a lead member of the Luzhou Key Laboratory of Intelligent Control and Electronic Device Application Technology. He is also the Science and Technology Commissioner of the Luzhou

Branch of the National Technology Transfer Southwest Center. He did a postdoctoral at Southeast University, Nanjing (2015-2019) and worked in the field of multiferroic materials. He has published more than forty-five research papers in internationally renowned journals, as well as presented numerous papers at national and international conferences and seminars. Dr. Kumar received a Young Scientist fellowship from the Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, India in 2014 and a Best Paper Award (first prize) from the Luzhou Chemistry and Chemical Society, China in 2021. He also served as a principal investigator and presided over several national, provincial, and municipal research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) of the Foreign Youth Fund, Jiangsu Province Postdoctoral Research Fund, Luzhou Municipal Science and Technology Research Fund, and Central University Basic Innovative Research Fund, among others. His research interests include the development of novel multifunctional materials, perovskite-structured materials, microwave dielectric ceramics, and oxide ceramics.
