<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Dear All</div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">My university is funding to do a collaborative research with any one across the globe</div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><i><font color="#cd232c">The co PI will also get some remuneration.</font></i></div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">My current research interest is to study thermoelectric properties of 2D materials </div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">but I am open to explore any other area of mutual interest too...</div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">I mainly use QE, BoltzTraP, ShengBTE as tool</div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">You may ping me on my personal email. <span><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; background-color: transparent;">My list of recent publication is as under</span></span></div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></span></div><div class="ydp1f6d4028yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify;"><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3">1.</font><span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">Ransell DSouza,<b> Sohail Ahmad</b> and Sugata
Mukherjee, "</font></span><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">First–principles
study of the enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit in transition
metal dichalcogenides (TMD) mono-layers (ZrX</font><sub>2</sub><font size="3">;X=S,Se,Te) </font></span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">(Manuscript Submitted)</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 7pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;">2.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><font size="3"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Sohail Ahmad</span></b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>, Ransell DSouza, and Sugata Mukherjee, "</span></font><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">Band gap modulation of ZrX</font><sub>2</sub><font size="3">
(X = S, Se, Te) mono-layers under biaxial strain and transverse electric field
and its lattice dynamic properties: A first-principles study</font></span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">", Material Research
Express, 6, 036308 (2019).</font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify;"><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;">3.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 7pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><font size="3"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Sohail Ahmad</span></b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>, Pere Miro Ramirez, Martha Audiffred, Thomas
Heine, "</span><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Control
of electronic properties in Graphene by intercalation of alkali metals and its
halides</span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>",
Solid State Communications, 272, 22 (2018).</span></font><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify;"><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;">4.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><font size="3"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Sohail Ahmad</span></b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>, "</span></font><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">Strained noble metal di
chalcogenides PtX</font><sub>2</sub><font size="3"> (X=S, Se) mono-layer: ab initio study of
electronic and lattice dynamic properties</font></span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">" Physica E, 95, 139 (2018).</font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify;"><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;">5.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 7pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><font size="3"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Sohail Ahmad</span></b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>, B. L. Chittari and V. Kumar, "</span><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Intercalation of Rb/Cs and co
intercalation of Cs-F in Graphene: ab initio calculations </span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>(Manuscript Under Revision)</span></font><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 48px 0px 0px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: rtl; orphans: 2;" dir="RTL"><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;' dir="LTR"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;" dir="LTR"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;">6.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><font size="3"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Sohail Ahmad</span></b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>, "</span></font><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">Strain dependent tuning electronic properties of noble metal di
chalcogenides PdX</font><sub>2</sub><font size="3"> (X = S, Se) mono-layer</font></span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">" Materials Chemistry
and Physics, 198, 162 (2017).</font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-align: justify;"><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;">7.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><font size="3"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Sohail Ahmad</span></b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'> and Nadir Bouarissa, "</span><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Strained Rocksalt ScN: ab initio
studies of electronic structure and lattice-dynamical properties</span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>" Material Research
Express, 4, 055001(2017).</span></font><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 48px 0px 0px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: rtl; orphans: 2;" dir="RTL"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;' dir="LTR"><font size="3"> </font></span></b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif;" dir="LTR"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 72px; text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="margin: 0px;">8.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>
</span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px;" dir="LTR"></span><font size="3"><b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'>Sohail Ahmad</span></b><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'> and Sugata Mukherjee, "</span></font><span style='margin: 0px; color: red; font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">A comparative study of bulk MoS</font><sub>2</sub><font size="3">
and its monolayer using DFT technique: Application of mechanical strain on MoS</font><sub>2</sub><font size="3">
monolayer"</font></span><span style='margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Cambria",serif;'><font size="3">
GRAPHENE, Vol 3, 52, 2014.</font></span><span lang="AR-SA" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" dir="RTL"></span></p>
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</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></div><div class="ydp1f6d4028signature" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------- <br><br><strong><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Dr. Sohail Ahmad</font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff">King Khalid University</font></p><p><font color="#0000ff">Abha, Saudi Arabia</font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"></font> --------------------------------------------------------------------<br></p></div></body></html>