Amit Raj Sharma

Amit Raj Sharma is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Wright State University, where he also serves as the IASM Program Director and Interim Chair of the Department of Math and Statistics. He holds office at Fawcett Hall 241, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH. His educational background includes a PhD in Computational Physics (2008) from Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany, an M.S. in Physics from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, India (1997), and a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from St. Thomas College, India (1995).

His research focuses on:

• Theoretical and computational atomic/molecular physics
• Atomic and molecular chemical kinetics
• Computational molecular ro-vibrational spectroscopy
• Spectral line shapes
• First-principles computational material research
• Modeling non-linear processes in ionospheric plasmas (collaboration with Air Force Research Laboratory)

His publications demonstrate strong focus on quantum dynamics, molecular spectroscopy, plasma physics, and computational material science, with recent work emphasizing ionospheric phenomena and interatomic potential modeling.

Awards:

• Best Poster Award at the 7th International Conference on Chemical Kinetics (2011)

Student Advising: He has supervised 12+ graduate students on topics including plasma turbulence modeling, material crystallization, atomic potentials, and ionospheric simulations. Current advisees include Nathan Zechar (PhD), James Serna, Sudip Acharya (MS), and Richard Vanderburg (MS).

Infrastructure: Manages an NSF-funded high-performance computing cluster featuring 34 compute nodes, GPU acceleration, and FDR InfiniBand networking for scientific computation.