Academic Background:

Prof. Zakir Hossain obtained his doctoral degree in April 1997 from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan (1998-199). After that, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and staff scientist (1999-2004)  at Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany. He joined the Department of Physics at IIT Kanpur in April 2004.

Research Interests:

The primary focus is on the design, fabrication, and investigation of rare-earth and transition metal-based intermetallic compounds, oxides, magnetic thin films, and heterostructures. This includes exploring the topological, magnetic, and superconducting properties of novel compounds in polycrystalline, single-crystalline, and thin film forms. The work also involves fabricating oxide and metallic magnetic thin films and heterostructures for spintronics and magnonic applications. Additionally, the research covers 2D electron gas at the interface of insulating oxides, examining the Kondo effect, spin-orbit interaction, magneto-thermopower, and gate voltage-tuned photoconductivity. Studies also focus on magnetization dynamics, spin waves, and magnetic anisotropy in iron garnet single crystalline thin films and metallic thin films.