Afrin Nahar Tamanna
(She/her/hers)
Experimental condensed matter physicist and PhD candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in topological quantum materials, van der Waals magnets, and Weyl semimetals. Experienced in low-temperature transport and magnetotransport experiments with publications in Nature Communications and Nano Letters. Skilled in experimental design, data analysis, and undergraduate teaching.
Social
Education
- PhD in Physics (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics)
- The Graduate Center, CUNY | Aug 2020 – Present | Expected Feb 2027
- CGPA: 3.978/4.0 | Advisor: Prof. Lia Krusin-Elbaum
- Thesis Proposal: Tunable chiral charge transport in van der Waals topological magnets.
- MS in Physics
- The City College of New York, CUNY | En-route, Sep 2025
- MPhil in Physics
- The Graduate Center, CUNY | En-route, Sep 2024
- MS in Physics
- University of Dhaka, Bangladesh | Mar 2018
- Thesis: Leaf extract mediated phyto-synthesis of crystalline magnetic anatase-type TiO2 nanoparticles for biomedical applications.BS in Physics
- University of Dhaka, Bangladesh | Aug 2016
Publications
- Tamanna, A. N., Lakra, A., Ding, X., Buzi, E., Park, K., Sobczak, K., Deng, H., Sharma, G., Tewari, S., Krusin-Elbaum, L. Nature Communications 15, 9830 (2024).
- Webb, T. A., Tamanna, A. N., Ding, X., Verma, N., Xu, J., Krusin-Elbaum, L., Dean, C. R., Basov, D. N., Pasupathy, A. N. Nano Letters 24, 4393–4399 (2024).
- Ullah, A. K. M. A., Haque, M. M., Akter, M., Hossain, A., Tamanna, A. N., et al. Materials Research Express 7, 015088 (2020).
- Ullah, A. K. M. A., Kabir, M. F., Akter, M., Tamanna, A. N., et al. RSC Advances 9, 13254–13262 (2019).
- Ullah, A. K. M. A., Kabir, M. F., Akter, M., Tamanna, A. N., et al. RSC Advances 8, 37176–37183 (2018).
- Shanta, F. S., Ullah, A. K. M. A., Kabir, M. F., Tamanna, A. N., et al. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials 28, 2447–2454 (2018).
Positions
Adjunct Lecturer, Physics, The City College of New York, CUNY
