Dr. Dipika Sharma

Dr. Dipika Sharma received her doctorate from Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Supervisor, Prof. Sahab Dass and Co-supervisor Prof. Umesh V. Waghmare Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore, India) in 2017 on “Experimental & First-Principles Theoretical Studies on Nanostructured Bilayered Semiconductors Systems in Photoelectrochemical Splitting of Water”. She then joined IIT Delhi for her Postdoctoral Research as National Postdoc fellow and continued as Institute Postdoctoral fellow in Department of Physics from 2017 to 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Bodh Raj Mehta. After that, she worked as D.S. Kothari postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at University of Delhi (2021-2024). After completion of her postdoctoral research, she joined as Inspire Faculty in May 2024 in Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi. In September 2025, she joined the Netaji Subhas University of Technology as Assistant Professor.

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Areas of Interest: Nanomaterials, Semiconductor Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, Solar Hydrogen Generation

Selected Publications:

1. Sharma, D.; Upadhyay, S.; Shrivastav, R.; Satsangi, V.; Waghmare, U. V.; Dass, S. Nanostructured BaTiO₃/Cu₂O Heterojunction with Improved Photoelectrochemical Activity for H₂ Evolution: Experimental and First-Principles Analysis. Appl. Catal., B 2016, 189, 75–85.
2. Sharma, D.; Upadhyay, S.; Shrivastav, R.; Satsangi, V.; Waghmare, U. V.; Dass, S. Improved Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Performance of Cu₂O/SrTiO₃ Heterojunction Photoelectrode. J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 25320–25329.
3. Sharma, D.; Yadav, J.; Mehta, B. R. Reduced Graphene Oxide Layer on Nanostructured SnS Thin Films for Improved Visible Light Photoelectrochemical Activity. Renew. Energy 2021, 169, 414–424.