Dr. Sharmin Sultana
Dr. Sharmin Sultana Professor, Department of Physics

PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Sharmin Sultanacompleted her  BSc (Hons.) and MSc(Thesis) degrees in physics from Jahangirnagar University,Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2002 (examination held in 2005) and in 2003 (examination held in 2006), respectively and secured first class first positions in both the examinations. Prof. Sultanahas begunher professional career as a Lecturer at the Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka in 2006 just after completing her MSc degree. She has received a very prestigious research fellowship “European Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Science and Innovation Award” in open competition among the PhD candidates from all over the world for her PhD degree. Thus, she moved to Northern Ireland, UK  in 2008 under study leave from the Jahangirnagar University.  She has successfully completed her PhD degree from Queen’s University Belfast, UK, in Plasma Physics  in 2012 and she returned Bangladesh in 2012. After completion her PhD degree she had been offered many permanent research/teaching positions from many universities of western countries but she declined these offers and rejoined at the same department because of her strong determination to serve her country.  It should be noted that Prof. Sultanahas received many honors/award during her PhD degree, for example she has received a travel allowance from the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, to participate international conferences on Plasma Physics during her PhD work. Dr. Sultanahas also been awarded the best poster prizein UNESCO ICTP Centre Poster Competitionand the best poster prizeaward in IoP Annual Plasma Physics Conference2011 for her research work. She has already attended more than 12 international conferences on Plasma Physics.

 

Prof. Sultana, after her PhD, and after working nearly 3.5 years as Assistant and Associate Professors at Jahangirnagar University, received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowshipfor her post-doctoral research and shemoved to the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) to carry out her research in Astrophysical Plasmas.Dr. Sultanahas been promoted to Professor in May 2019. It is noted that Prof. Sultanahas also received the Return Fellowshipfrom Alexander von Humboldt(AvH) Foundation (Bonn, Germany) just after completing her post-doctoral research (funded by the AvH Foundation) to continue her research work independently and to build up a new research group in Bangladesh. It should also be mentioned that Prof. Sultana has already superviseda number of brilliant students of Physics who are currently carrying their PhD/higher studies in many western countries like USA, Australia, Germany, etc.  

 

Prof. Sultana’sresearch interest includes nonlinear phenomena, mainly electrostatic (ES) and electromagnetic (EM) waves in the form of localized nonlinear wavepackets and solitary waves (solitons), and shock structures in (a) space, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas;(b) relativistic/ultra-relativistic multi-ion plasmas; (c) strongly coupled degenerate quantum plasmas; and (d) laser produced laboratory plasmas. Prof. Sultana has made a substantial contribution towards the published literature of nonlinear dynamics in different wings of plasma physics. She has already published over 65 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals. To know the quality of her research work, it is noted that the total citations of her research work already exceeded 1100 with h-index 20 and i10-index 28(updated information can be found in Prof. Sultana’s Google Scholar Link)and her ResearchGate Score is 30.39 (updated one can be found here). 

RESEARCH INTEREST

My main research focuses on the theoretical study of Nonlinear Wave Dynamics (electrostatic/electromagnetic wave in the form of localized nonlinear wavepackets and solitary excitations (solitons), and shock structures) in plasma medium, with emphasis on applications in Plasma Modeling; space, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas; relativistic/ultra-relativistic plasmas; strongly/weakly coupled dusty plasmas and laser produced laboratory plasmas. The research related to the following topics can be seen in the link here.

Mathematical Modeling, Nonlinear Dynamics & Applications:

Modeling of nonlinear wave propagation in dispersive media, taking into account: nonlinearity & dispersion laws; forcing & dissipative effects; modulational instability and wave coupling.

Nonlinear PDEs – Soliton and shock theory (formal): stability, conservation properties, interactions, effect of perturbations. Generic paradigms include: Korteweg de Vries (KdV), KdV Burgers, Burgers, nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS); in higher dimensionality: modified KdV, Gardner, Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation(s).

My recent interests are to analyze the nonlinear envelope mode in dissipative plasma medium, usually modeled by modified nonlinear Schrödinger equations (named as Complex Ginzburg-Landau equation); large amplitude solitary excitations in self-gravitational strongly coupled plasmas, modeled via the pseudo-potential approach.

Nonlinear Waves and Instabilities in Plasmas:

Nonlinear excitations, solitons and associated nonlinear instabilities, modulated envelope wave packets, modulational instability.

Electrostatic and electromagnetic waves in Space and laboratory plasmas: electron-positron plasmas, pair ion plasmas, multi-ion plasmas, two-electron temperature plasmas.

Nonlinear phenomena in rotational compact astrophysical objects: degenerate quantum plasmas, electron-positron plasmas, electron-positron-ion plasmas in neutron stars, white dwarf stars, etc.

Dusty Plasmas (Complex Plasmas):

Opposite polarity dusty plasmas: wave propagation, dispersion properties, instabilities, and electrostatic interaction laws.

Strongly coupled dusty plasmas: nonlinear wave propagation including self-gravitational effect.

 

JOURNAL PAPER

1stAuthored Articles:  

                                                                                                    

1.        S. Sultana and I. Kourakis, Physics 4, 68-79 (2022)

2.        S. Sultana, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics 6, 6 (2022)

3.        S. Sultana, Chinese J. Phys. 69, 206 (2021)                                  

4.        S. Sultana,Eur. Phys. J. D.74, 214 (2020)                                              

5.        S. Sultana, A Mannan, and R. Schlickeiser, Eur. Phys. J. D.73, 220 (2019)                                                  

6.        S. Sultana, S. Islam, A A Mamun, and R. Schlickeiser, Phys. Plasmas26, 012107 (2019)      

7.        S. Sultana, R. Schlickeiser, I. S. Elkamash, and I. Kourakis, Phys. Rev. E 98, 033207 (2018)                                                       

8.        S. Sultanaand R.  Schlickeiser, Astrophys. Space Sci.363, 1-9 (2018)                                 

9.        S. Sultana,Phys. Lett. A382,  1368 (2018)                                                            

10.     S. Sultanaand R. Schlickeiser, Phys. Plasmas25, 022110 (2018)                                    

11.     S. Sultana, S. Islam, A. A. Mamun, and R. Schlickeiser, Phys. Plasmas25, 012113 (2018)        

12.     S. Sultanaand I. Kourakis, Phys. Plasmas22, 102302 (2015)                                          

13.      S. Sultana, S. Islam, and A A Mamun, Astrophys. Space Sci.351, 581-589 (2014)     

14.      S. Sultanaand A. A. Mamun, Astrophys. Space Sci.349, 229 (2014)                          

15.      S. Sultana, I. Kourakis, and M. A. Hellberg, Plasma Phys.Control. Fusion54,105016 (2012)                              

16.      S. Sultanaand I. Kourakis, Eur. Phys. J. D.66, 1-12 (2012)                                                      

17.      S. Sultana, G. Sari,and I. Kourakis, Phys. Plasmas19, 012310 (2012)                                                           

18.      S. Sultanaand I. Kourakis, Plasma Phys.Control. Fusion53,045003 (2011)                                            

19.      S. Sultana,I. Kourakis, N. S. Saini, and M. A. Hellberg,  Phys. Plasmas17, 032310 (2010)                                                       

 

Co-authored Articles:

20.  M.R. Hassan, S. Biswas, K. Habib, and S. Sultana,Results in Physics 33, 105106 (2022)

21.  A. Abdikian and S. Sultana, Phys. Scr.96,095602 (2021)

22.  M. R. Hassan, T. I. Rajib, and S. Sultana,IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci.49, 3749-3758 (2021)

23.  M.R. Hassan and S. Sultana,Contrib. Plasma Phys. 61, e202100065 (2021)

24.  N  M Heera, J. Akter, N. K. Tamanna, N. A. Chowdhury, T. I. Rajib, S Sultana, and A A Mamun, AIP Advances11, 055117 (2021)

25.  J  N Sikta, N. A. Chowdhury, A. Mannan, S Sultana, and A A Mamun, Plasma4, 230 (2021)

26.  T. Yeashna, R. K. Shikha, N. A. Chowdhury, A. Mannan, S Sultana, and A A Mamun, Eur. Phys. J. D75, 135 (2021)

27.  A Mannan, S Sultana, and A A Mamun, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 48, 4093 (2020)   

28. A. Mannan, S. Sultana, R. Schlickeiser, and T. Dohnal, Plasma Phys Rep. 46, 197 (2020)

29. T.I.Rajib, N. K. Tamanna, N. A. Chowdhury, A. Mannan, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun,Phys Plasmas 26, 123701 (2019)

30.  A. Atteya, S. Sultana, and R. Schlickeiser, Chinese J. Phys.56, 1931 (2018)

31.  S. Islam, S. Sultana, and A. A. Mamun,Phys. Plasmas24, 092115 (2017)

32.  S. Islam, S. Sultana, and A. A. Mamun,Phys. Plasmas24, 092308 (2017)

33.  T. I. Rajib, S. Sultanaand A. A. Mamun,IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci.46, 2612 (2017)

34.  M. M. Hossen, L. Nahar, M. S. Alam, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun, High Energy Density Phys. 24, 17 (2017)

35.  M. Ferdousi, S. Sultana, M. M. Hossen, M. R. Miah, and A A Mamun, Eur. Phys. J. D 71, 102 (2017)

36.  T. I. Rajib, S. Sultanaand A. A. Mamun,  IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci.  45, 718 (2017)       

 37.  M. Mobarak Hossen, M.S. Alam, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun, Eur. Phys. J. D 70, 252 (2016)             

38.  M. Mobarak Hossen, M. S. Alam, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun,  Phys. Plasmas23, 023703 (2016)

39.  M. Ferdousi, M. R. Miah, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun, Astrophys. Space Sci.360:43, 1-6 (2015)      

40.  A. A. Mamun, M. Ferdousi and S. Sultana:Phys. Scripta  90,088011 (2015)  

41.  M. G. Shah, M. R. Hossen, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun, Chinese Phys. Lett.32, 085203 (2015)

42.  S. A. Ema, M. Ferdousi, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun,J. Korean Phys. Soc.66, 1697 (2015)

43.  M. Ferdousi, S. Sultanaand A. A. Mamun, Phys. Plasmas22, 032117 (2015) 

44.  S. A. Ema, M. Ferdousi, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun,Euro. Phys. J. Plus130, 46 (2015) 

45.  T. I. Rajib, S. Sultanaand A A Mamun,Astrophys. Space Sci.357, 52(2015)  

46.   M. Ferdousi, M. R. Miah, S. Sultana,and A A Mamun, Braz. J. Phys.45, 244 (2015)    

47.   M. R. Hossen, M. A. Hossen, S. Sultana, Astrophys. Space Sci.(Springer Nature) 357, 34 (2015)          

48.   G. Mandal, S.  Sultana, A. A. Mamun, Bosons J. Mod. Phys.2, 97 (2015)     

49.   M. R. Hossen, L. Nahar, S. Sultana, A A Mamun, High Energy Density Phys.13, 13 (2014)

50.  N. Y. Tanisha, I. Tasnim, S. Sultana, M. Salahuddin, and A A Mamun,Astrophys. Space Sci.353, 137 (2014)

51. M. R. Hossen, L. Nahar, S. Sultana, and A A Mamun,Astrophys. Space Sci.353, 123 (2014)

52. S. E. Cousens, V. V. Yaroshenko, S. Sultana, M.A. Hellberg, F. Verheest, and I. Kourakis, Phys Rev. E(APS) 89, 043103 (2014)

53. M. Masud, S. Sultana,and A A Mamun, Astrophys. Space Sci.348, 99 (2013)

54. S. E. Cousens, S. Sultana, I. Kourakis, V. V. Yaroshenko, M. A. Hellberg, and F. Verheest,  Phys Rev. E86(6), 066404 (2012)                      

55. I. Kourakis, S. Sultana, M. A. Hellberg, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 54(12),124001(2012)                       

56. I. Kourakis, S. Sultana,and F. Verheest,Astrophys. Space Sci.338, 245 (2012)      

CONFERENCE PAPER

Articles in International Conference Proceedings,
  1. G. Williams, S. Sultana, ….. : EPS Conf. Proc. (EU) 32012, 1414-1417 (2012).
  2. S. E. Cousens, S. Sultana,……: EPS Conf. Proc. (EU) P2.146, (2012).
  3. S. Sultana, I. Kourakis, …..: AIP Conf. Proc. (USA) 1397, 435 (2011).
  4. I. Kourakis and S. Sultana: AIP Conf. Proc. (USA) 1397, 86 (2011).
  5. S. Sultana, G. Sarri and I. Kourakis: ICPIG Conf. Proc. (UK) A4, 425 (2011).
  6. N. S. Saini, S. Sultana,…..: AIP Conf. Proc. (USA) 1397, 355 (2011).
  7. S. Sultana and I.Kourakis: EPS Conf. Proc. (EU) P2.411, 21-25 (2010).
  8. S. Sultana, A. Danehkar, …..: EPS Conf. Proc. (EU) P2.410, (2010).

Activity

Organization: Jahangirnagar University
Position: Associate Professor
Period: May 2019 - present

A. Courses Taken:

  1. M. Sc./MPhil Courses: Health and Radiation Physics, Advance Dusty Plasma Physics, Mechanics & Electromagnetism, Research Methodology & Arts of Scientific Writtings
  2. B. Sc. Courses: Thermodynamics, Electronics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics & Physics Practical I.

B. Research Activity:

  1. Independent Research (based on the supervision of thesis student):

a.   8+ M. Sc. research students had already been supervised.

b.   One M. Phil. and three Ph. D. research students are being supervised.

2. Colaborative Research: I have research collaboration with international research group like theoretical plasma physics group in Centre for Plasma Physics of Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.

C. Participation as Reviewer:

  1. Reviewer of 'Physics of Plasmas' published by the AIP, USA.
  2. Reviewer of 'Physics Letters A' published by Elsevier Science, Netherland.
  3. Reviewer of 'Journal of Plasma Physics' published by Cambridge University Press, UK.
  4. Reviewer of 'Physica Scripta' published by the IoP.
  5. Reviewer of 'Astrophysics & Space Sci.' published by Springer, Netherlands.
  6. Reviewer of 'IEEE Transaction on Plasma Sci.' published by IEEE Inc., USA.
  7. Reviewer of 'Chaos, Solitons & Fractals' published by Elsevier, UK.

D. Attended Conference/Workshop/Summer School:

  1. 7th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, New Delhi, India (3rd -7th March 2014)
  2. 6th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Congress Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Richard-Strauss-Platz 1a, 82467 Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany (16 - 20 May 2011)
  3. IoP Annual Plasma Physics Conference, Marine Hotel, North Berwick, UK (4 - 7 April 2011)
  4. The Laser at 50, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, UK (13 September).
  5. International Advanced Workshop on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiere, Trieste, Italy (5 - 16 July 2010).
  6. European Physical society 37th Conference on Plasma Physics, Dublin City University, Repulic of Ireland (21 -25 June 2010).
  7. 37th IoP annual conference on Plasma Physics at the Low Wood Hotel, Windermere, UK (29 March - 1 April 2010).
  8. Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Specialist Discussion Meeting, RAS Lecture Theatre, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London on 12th of March 2010.
  9. Summer College on Plasma Physics, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiere, Trieste, Italy (10 - 28 August 2009).
  10. 36th IoP annual conference on Plasma Physics at the Centre for Fusion Space and Astrophysics of the University of Warwick, UK (30th March- 2nd April 2009).

E. Presented Poster in Scientific Events: 

  1. “Electromagnetic solitary structures in complex plasmas”, S. Sultana, S. Islam, A. A. Mamun, 7th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, New Delhi, India (3 - 7 March 2014).
  2. “Effect of strong electrostatic interactions of micro-particles on the modulational stability of dust acoustic waves”, S. Sultana, I. Kourakis, V. V. Yaroshenko, 6th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Congress Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Richard-Strauss-Platz 1a, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (16 - 20 May 2011).
  3. “Modulational instability and envelope excitations of dust electron-acoustic waves in superthermal dusty plasmas”, N. S. Saini, S. Sultana and I. Kourakis, 6th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Congress Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Richard-Strauss-Platz 1a, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (16 - 20 May 2011).
  4. “Electrostatic shocks in the presence of accelerated (superthermal) electrons”, S. Sultana, G. Sarry and I. Kourakis, IoP Annual Plasma Physics Conference, Marine Hotel, North Berwick, UK (4 - 7 April 2011).
  5. “Dissipative modulated electrostatic solitary plasma structures in the presence of a superthermal component”, S. Sultana, I. Kourakis, 37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics Dublin, UK (21 - 25 June 2010).
  6. “Effects of superthermality on nonlinear electrostatic modes in plasmas”, S. Sultana, A. Danehkar, N. S. Saini, M. A. Hellberg, I. Kourakis, 37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Dublin (21 - 25 June 2010).
  7. “Nonlinear Electron-acoustic excitations in the presence of superthermal background electrons”, S. Sultana, A. Danehkar, N. S. Saini, M. A. Hellberg, I. Kourakis, 37th IoP annual conference on Plasma Physics, Windermere (29th March – 1st April 2010).
  8. “Electrostatic wavepackets in the presence of superthermal (accelerated) electyrons: modulational instability and envelope soliton modes”, S. Sultana, I. Kourakis, RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, Burlington House, London (12 March 2010).
  9. “Electrostatic electron acoustic envelope soliton in unmagnetized plasma with non-thermal plasma distributions”, S. Sultana, I. Kourakis, the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy (10 - 28 August 2009).
  10. “Solitary structures in multicomponent plasmas with superthermal electrons”, N. S. Saini, S. Sultana, A. Sharma, I. Kourakis and M. A. Hellberg, 36th IoP annual conference on Plasma Physics Warwick University, UK (30th March - 2nd April 2009).
  11. “Oblique electrostatic pulses in magnetized plasma in the presence of superthermal electrons”, S. Sultana, N. S. Saini, I. Kourakis, 36th IoP annual conference on Plasma Physics UK (30th March - 2nd April 2009).  

 F. Talk/Lecture in Scientific Event:

1.    Stellar and Interstellar Environments: Shocking Structures in and Around Atmospheres and Their Relevance for Cosmic Ray Transport, 24 - 28 September 2018, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

2.     The 45thIoP Plasma Physics Conference, 9 - 12 April 2018, Queens University Belfast, UK.

3.     The 7thInternational Conference on Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP), 3 – 7 March 2014, New Delhi, India.

Contact

Dr. Sharmin Sultana

Professor
Department of Physics
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: +8801916579344
Work Phone: 2176
Email: ssultana@juniv.edu

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