Anjan Soumyanarayanan

Address Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE)

3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 Gender Male
Email us-anjan@imre.a-star.edu.sg Date of Birth 8 July 1984
Phone +65 9852 4296 Nationality Indian

EDUCATION

2002 - 05 Cambridge University, Downing College, UK

B.A. (Honours) in Natural Sciences (Physical)
Part II (Final Year) Experimental and Theoretical Physics First Class
Part IB Advanced Physics & Mathematics First Class
Part IA Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry & First Class
Materials and Mineral Sciences (All Subjects)

2000 - 01 Victoria Junior College, Singapore; GCE A Levels

A’s in 4 A-Level Subjects, Distinctions in Special Papers and A1’s in 2 AO-Level Subjects
Among the top 20 students in Singapore who obtained a Perfect Score

1989 - 99 Kendriya Vidyalaya (SAC), Ahmedabad, India; AISSE (Secondary School Certificate)
Aggregate of 91.8%; Top student in KV (CBSE) Schools in the State of Gujarat

SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONOURS

2002 - 11 National Science Scholarship (NSS BS-PhD), Agency for Science, Technology &
Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Fully Funded for Undergraduate and PhD Studies
2003 - 05 Elected Scholar of Downing College
2005 Elected Member of the Institute of Physics, Singapore
2003, 04, 05 Unwin Prize, Downing College
2003 A*STAR Chairman’s Honours List Award for Meritorious Academic Performance
2000 - 01 Singapore Airlines (SIA) Youth Scholarship
Fully Sponsored for the two-year GCE A Level Course in Singapore
2002 VAC Academic Excellence Award, Victoria Junior College
2000 Bronze Medal, Singapore Chemistry Olympiad
1999 National Talent Search (NTS) Scholarship, Indian Education Board (NCERT)
1999 Aruna Lal Fellowship, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), India

ARTICLES, THESES AND PUBLICATIONS

2006 The Phonon Contribution to Diffraction Patterns

Anjan Soumyanarayanan and Chris Boothroyd (Conference Paper)
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To be presented at the 16 International Microscopy Conference at Japan, September 2006

2006 Expanding the Cosmos: the Evolution of Observational Astrophysics

Anjan Soumyanarayanan (Popular Article)
Submitted to Physics Update, the Institute of Physics, Singapore (IPS) quarterly magazine
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS

2005 - Phonon Scattering in High Resolution Electron Microscopy (See Publications)

One Year Quantitatively Predictions of Phonon Scattering and Image Matching with Experiments
Supervised by Dr. Chris Boothroyd, IMRE, Singapore

2005 Random Fields and Quenched Disorders

Two Months A Survey of Analytical Research in Disordered Systems and the Development of Advanced
Theoretical Methods to Study Critical Phenomena in Statistical Systems
Supervised by Dr. Eugene Terentjev, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

2004 Interface Studies of InP/InGaAs for Sacrificial Layer Etching

Two Months Characterisation Studies (SIMS, XRD, AFM, SEM) of the Semiconductor Heterostructure and
Studying Elemental Diffusion due to Annealing
Supervised by Dr. A Ramam, IMRE, Singapore

2003 Studying Synchrotron Radiation using Low Frequency Radio Astronomy

Two Months Supervised by Prof. S Ananthakrishnan, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, India

2002 Depth Profiling Studies of Ni/Si and the Effects of Oxygen Flooding using ToF-SIMS
Two Months Supervised by Dr. Nikolai Yakovlev, IMRE, Singapore

WORK AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2005 - 06 Research Officer, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE)

2005 - 06 Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Level 2 / Sophomore Quantum Mechanics (PC 2130) Semester 1
Level 2 / Sophomore Statistical Physics (PC 2230) Semester 2

2004 - 05 Library Supervisor, Downing College

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

2006 Meet the Scientist Popular Talk at Singapore Science Centre on ‘A History of the
Electron and Wave-Particle Duality’ to an audience of 250 secondary school students
Included an electron diffraction experiment and other demonstrations

2004 - 05 Cavendish Laboratory Outreach Committee

Organisation of Outreach Events and Demonstrations to Popularise Physics

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

2002 - Institute of Physics (IoP), UK

2002 - Cambridge University Physics Society (Committee Member)
2005 - Institute of Physics, Singapore (IPS)