Dr. Shareef M.
Dr. Shareef M.
Assistant Professor (Grade II)
Office Address:
Room. 110 C (First Floor), Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Calicut, NIT Campus P.O 673 601, Kozhikode, India.
Email ID:
Home Address:
Chungamannam, Mathur (P.O), Palakkad, Kerala - 678571
2020. Ph.D. (Experimental Nuclear Physics) - Central University of Kerala and Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi
2012. M.Sc. (Physics) - Central University of Kerala
2010. B.Sc. (Physics) - University of Calicut
Educational Qualifications
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2020. Ph.D. (Experimental Nuclear Physics) - Central University of Kerala and Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi
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2012. M.Sc. (Physics) - Central University of Kerala
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2010. B.Sc. (Physics) - University of Calicut
Professional Experience
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Research Associate/Postdoc at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata (2021-2023))
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Assistant Professor at NIT Calicut since July 2023.
Books (Refereed)
1. B. Ashna, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, A. C. Visakh, A. Jhingan, Avazbek Nasirov, Elzod Khusanov, Jhilam Sadhukhan, N. Saneesh, K. S. Golda , Mohit Kumar, S. K. Duggi, Shiva Prasad Nayak, S. Ramakrishna Reddy, K. Prameela, S. Appannababu, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao, A. M. Vinodkumar, P. Sugathan and E. Prasad. Fission and quasifission studies in the 30Si+197Au reaction. Physical Review C (Accepted 2026)
2. Saikat Bhattacharjee, Munmun Twisha, Ashish Gupta, M. Shareef, Akashrup Banerjee, Sanjoy Pal, Biswajit Das, Prabhat Mishra, V.V. Parkar, S.K. Pandit, Vineet Kumar, K. Ramachandran, K. Mahata, A.Shrivastava, and A. Mukherjee. "Fusion hindrance in the 11B+169Tm system at deep sub-barrier energies" Physical Review C, Vol 113, 024610 (2026)
3. B. Sidharth and M. Shareef. Effect of collective enhancement of level density in the neutron emission from compound nuclei. Nuclear Physics A, Vol 1067, 123289 (2026)
4. Ashish Gupta, M. Shareef, Munmun Twisha, Saikat Bhattacharjee, A. Mukherjee. Full energy peak efficiency of a clover detector in direct and add‑back modes at different source to detector distances: a comparative study
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, (2025)
5. M. Shareef, E. Prasad, A. Jhingan, N. Saneesh, N. Saneesh, Santanu Pal, A. M. Vinodkumar, K. S. Golda, Mohit Kumar, A. Shamlath„ P. V. Laveen, A. C. Visakh, M. M. Hosamani, S. K. Duggi, P. Sandya Devi, G. N. Jyothi, A. Tejaswi, A. Chatterjee, and P. Sugathan . Neutron multiplicity measurement and investigation of nuclear dissipation and shell effects in 30Si+ 182,184,186W reactions
Physical Review C, Vol 107, 054619 (2023)
6. Ashish Gupta, M. Shareef, Munmun Twisha, Saikat Bhattacharjee, Gopal Mukherjee, Satya Samiran Nayak, Sansaptak Basu, S. Dasgupta, J. Datta, S. Bhattacharyya, A. Mukherjee: "True coincidence summing correction for a BEGe detector in close geometry measurements"
Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 200110966 (2023)
7. C. Visakh, E. Prasad, P. V. Laveen , M. Shareef, A. Shamlath , S. Nath, N. Madhavan, J. Gehlot, Gonika, Rohan Biswas, A. Parihari, J. Khuyagbaatar, B. Lommel, B. Kindler, A. M. Vinodkumar, B. R. S. Babu, and S. Sanila, K. M. Varier, S. Appannababu: "Fusion studies in 16O+142,150d reactions at energies near the Coulomb barrier"
Physical Review C, Vol 104, 054602 (2021)
8. Akhil Jhingan, N. Saneesh, M. Kumar, Ruchi Mahajan, Meenu Thakur, Gurpreet Kaur, K. Kapoor, Neeraj Kumar, M. Shareef, R. Dubey, S. Appannababu, E. Prasad, Hardev Singh, K. S. Golda1, R. Ahuja, B. R. Behera, and P. Sugathan : "Development of a time of flight spectrometer based on position sensitive multi-wire proportional counters for fission fragment mass distribution studies"
Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 033309 (2021)
9. P. V. Laveen, E. Prasad, N. Madhavan, A. K. Nasirov, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, G. Mandaglio, G. Giardina, A. M. Vinodkumar, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, S. K. Duggi, P. Sandya Devi, Tathagata Banerjee, M. M. Hosamani, Khushboo, P. Jisha,
Neeraj Kumar, Priya Sharma, and T. VarugheseFusion studies in 35,37Cl+181Ta reactions via evaporation residue cross section measurements
Physical Review C, Vol 102, 034613 (2020)
10. P. Jisha, A. M. Vinodkumar, B. R. S. Babu, S. Nath, N. Madhavan, J. Gehlot, A. Jhingan, T. Banerjee, Ish Mukul, R. Dubey, N. Saneesh, K. M. Varier, E. Prasad, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen and M. Shareef. "Evaporation residue measurements of compound nuclei in the A ∼ 200 region"
Physical Review C, Vol 101, 024611 (2020)
11. M. M. Hosamani, N. M. Badiger, N. Madhavan, I. Mazumdar, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, A. K. Sinha, S. M. Patel, P. B. Chavan, T. Varughese, Vishal Srivastava, Md. Moin Shaikh, P. Sandya Devi, P. V. Laveen, A. Shamlath, M. Shareef, et al. "Evaporation-residue-gated spin distribution measurements of the highly fissile compound nucleus 224Th through 16O+208Pb and 18O+206Pb reactions"
Physical Review C, Vol 101, 014616 (2020)
12. M. Shareef, E. Prasad, A. Jhingan, N. Saneesh, K. S. Golda, A. M. Vinodkumar, Mohit Kumar, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, A. C. Visakh, M. M. Hosamani, S. K. Duggi, P. Sandya Devi, G. N. Jyothi, A. Tejaswi, P. N. Patil, Jhilam
Sadhukhan, P. Sugathan, A. Chatterjee and Santanu Pal. "Nuclear dissipation at high excitation energy and angular momenta in reaction forming 227Np"
Physical Review C, Vol 99, 024618 (2019)
13. K. K. Rajesh, M. M. Musthafa, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, Jhilam Sadhukhan, P. Mohamed Aslam, P. T. Muhammed shan, E. Prasad, M. M. Hosamani, T. Varughese, Abhishek Yadav, Vijay R. Sharma, Vishal Srivastava,
Md. Moin Shaikh, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, and P. V. Laveen. "Measurement of fusion evaporation residue cross sections in the reactions"
Physical Review C, Vol 100, 044611 (2019)
14. J. Gehlot, S. Nath, A. Jhingan, Tathagata Banerjee, Ish Mukul , R. Dubey , A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, M. Shareef, Md. Moin Shaikh, A. Jhingan, N. Madhavan, Tapan Rajbongshi, P. Jisha and Santanu Pal. "Search for stabilizing effects of the Z = 82 shell closure against fission"
Physical Review C, Vol 99, 061601(R) (2019)
15. J. Gehlot, A. M. Vinodkumar, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, A. Jhingan, T. Varughese, Tathagata Banerjee, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, M. Shareef, P. Jisha, P. Sandya Devi, G. Naga Jyothi, M. M. Hosamani, I. Mazumdar, V. I. Chepigin,
M. L. Chelnokov, A. V. Yeremin, A. K. Sinha, and B. R. S. Babu. "Evaporation residue cross-section measurements for 16O+203,205Tl"
Physical Review C, Vol 99, 034615 (2019)
16. Md. Moin Shaikh, S Nath, J Gehlot, Tathagata Banerjee, Ish Mukul, R Dubey, A Shamlath, P V Laveen, M. Shareef, A Jhingan, N Madhavan, Tapan Rajbongshi, P Jisha, G Naga Jyothi, A Tejaswi, Rudra N Sahoo and Anjali Rani. "Investigation of fusion hindrance in a soft asymmetric system deep below the barrier"
Jour.of Phys.G: Nucl.Part. Phys 45, 095103 (2018)
17. Tathagata Banerjee, S. Nath, A. Jhingan, N. Saneesh, Mohit Kumar, Abhishek Yadav, Gurpreet Kaur, R. Dubey, M. Shareef, P. V. Laveen, A. Shamlath, Md. Moin Shaikh, S. Biswas, J. Gehlot, K. S. Golda, P. Sugathan and Santanu Pal. "Effect of collective enhancement in level density in the fission of pre-actinides"
Physical Review C, Vol 96, 014618 (2017)
18. T. Banerjee, S.R. Abhilash, D. Kabiraj, S. Ojha, G.R. Umapathy, M. Shareef, P.V. Laveen, H. Duggal, R. U. Amarnadh, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, D. Mehta."Fabrication of thin targets for nuclear reaction studies at IUAC"
Vacuum 144,190 (2017)
19. A. Shamlath, E. Prasad, N. Madhavan, P. V. Laveen, J. Gehlot, A. K. Nasirov, G. Giardina, G. Mandaglio, S. Nath, Tathagata Banerjee, A. M. Vinodkumar, M. Shareef, A. Jhingan, T. Varughese, DVGRKS Kumar, P. Sandya Devi, Khushboo, P. Jisha, Neeraj Kumar, M. M. Hosamani, and S. Kailas. "Fusion and quasifission studies in reactions forming Rn via evaporation residue measurements"
Physical Review C, Vol 95, 034610 (2017)
20. M. Shareef, A. Chatterjee and E. Prasad. "Entrance channel systematics of pre-scission neutron multiplicities"
European Physical Journal A, Vol 52, 342 (2016)
21. Tathagata Banerjee, S. Nath, A. Jhingan, Gurpreet Kaur, R. Dubey, Abhishek Yadav, P. V. Laveen, A. Shamlath, M. Shareef, J. Gehlot, N. Saneesh, E. Prasad, P. Sugathan and Santunu Pal. "Fission fragment angular distribution in pre-actinide nuclei"
Physical Review C, Vol 94, 044607 (2016)
22. Tapan Rajbongshi, K. Kalita, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, Tathagata Banerjee, Ish Mukul, R. Dubey, N. Madhavan, C. J. Lin, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, M. Shareef, NeerajKumar, P. Jisha and P. Sharma. "Deformation effects on sub-barrier fusion cross sections in 16O+174,176Yb"
Physical Review C, Vol 93, 054622 (2016)
23. A. Shamlath, M. Shareef, E. Prasad, P. Sugathan, R. G. Thomas, A. Jhingan, S. Appannababu, A. K Nasirov, A. M. Vinodkumar, K. M. Varrier, C. Yadav, B. R. S. Babu, S. Nath, G. Mohanto, Ish Mukul, D. Singh and S. Kailas. "Fission fragment mass distribution studies in 30 Si+ 180Hf reaction"
Nuclear Physics A, Vol 945, 67 (2016)
24. R. Lisha, T. Hysen, P. Geetha, P. B. Aravind, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, Sunil Ojha, R. V. Ramanujan and M. R. Anantharaman. "Defect induced enhancement of exchange bias by swift heavy ion irradiation in zinc ferrite -FeNiMob alloy based bilayer films"
Nucl. Inst. Meth.in Phys. Res.B. Vol 360, 68 (2015)
Awarded Dr. D. S. Kothari Post Doctoral Fellowship (DSKPDF) by UGC in September 2021
Research Associateship by the Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi in 2021
Research Associateship by Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata in 2021
Awarded 1st Prize in oral presentation of research work at National Science Day, Central University of Kerala in 2019.
Selected as Indo-Russian Collaborative (DST-RFBR) Project Fellow in 2018.
International Travel Scheme (ITS) (Young Scientist) from Science Engineering and Research Board (SERB) in 2018 to present at NN2018, Japan
Awarded KSCSTE research fellowship from Govt. of Kerala in 2012
Joint co-ordinator of Curicon plasma exhibition at NIT by Institute for Plasma Reseach and DIET Kozhikode in September 2023
Reviewer of abstract contributions at DAE symposium on nuclear physics (2022)
Member of Gokul Endowment for Physics Aspirants (GEPA) since 2021
Chief guest of Science Program “Shasthrarangam” at CAHSS, Peruvamba, Palakkad, India in July 2021.
Presented a webinar for lunar day at Kannadi Higher Secondary School, Palakkad, India in July 2021
Chief guest and Inaugurator of Physics Association, Department of Physics, Government College, Malappuram - December 2023
Member of Indian Physics Association (IPA)
Nuclear Fusion-Fission dynamics
Neutron and other charged particle multiplicities
Nuclear reaction studies using spectrometers
Fission fragment mass, charge and kinetic energy distributions
Nuclear Astrophysics
Nuclear Instrumentation and developmental activities
Detector development and simulations
Effect of shell closure, dissipation, CELD in fission
2024-25 Winter Semester
PH1001E- Physics of Materials
PH4030D - Nuclear Engineering
2024-25 Monsoon Semester
PH4002D - Nuclear and Particle Physics
ED1302E - Physics Lab 1
2023-24 Winter Semester
PH4030D - Nuclear Engineering
PH1001E - Physics of Materials
2023-24 Monsoon Semester
PH4002D - Nuclear and Particle Physics
PH1001E - Physics of Materials
National Workshop on GEANT4 for Applied Nuclear Physics - University of Calicut - February 2025.
Nuclear Physics Advancement and Applications - SARBTM Govt. College Koyilandi - January 2025.
Nuclear Physics and Technological Advancement - Govt. College Malappuram - December 2023.
Nuclear Fusion & Fission - Challenges and Prospects - VIT Chennai - August 2023.
Workshop on NAND Experiments: present status and future developments - IUAC, New Delhi - 2022.
Warden (Hostel NITC) since 2023.
Member of Centre for Public Relations, Informations and Media Exchange (C-PRIME).
Convenor (Arrangements) for inauguration of Centre for Space Science and Technology.
Convenor (Hall/Skylight Arrangement) of foundation day 2024.
Department coordinator to International Alumni and Corporate Reations (IACR).
Coordinator - Science day & Open House.