Education

• Ph.D. 2000: Centre for Non Conventional Energy Resources, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in Physics
• M.B.A. 2009: National Institute of Business Management, Chennai in HR
• M.Sc. 1991: Physics Dept, Agra University in Physics
• B.Sc. 1989: Maharaja’s College, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in Physics, Maths and Statistics

Courses

• Applied Physics
• Environmental Studies
• Material Science
• Non Conventional Energy Resources
• Thermodynamics

Research and Consultancy

• Characterization and Hydrogenation behavior of Thin Film Metal Hydride
• Development of Hydrogen Storage Materials for system and mobile applications
• Ion beam modifications in Amorphous Chalcogenides materials

Publications

• Effect of Sulphur layer on obliquely deposited Ti thin film. M. Singh, A. Bhargava, A. Williamson, M.Vashistha, Y.K.Vijay and I.P.Jain. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, UK., Vol. 19, No.8, P. 709-12(1994).
• Kinetics of Hydrogen Absorption in obliquely deposited MmNi4.5Al0.5 Thin Films. I.P.Jain, M.Vashistha, P.Sharma, B.Devi, and Y.K.Vijay. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy , 25 (2000) 523-529.
• Activation Energy of obliquely deposited MmNi4.5Al0.5 and MmNi4.5Al0.5Hx thin films. I.P.Jain, M.Vashistha, P.Sharma, Babita Devi and Y.K.Vijay. Proc .of XIIIth World Hydrogen Energy conferences, 2000, in China.
• Electrical Conductivity of Ion Irradiated Ge20Se80-xBix thin films. Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, and I.P.Jain, Radiation Measurements, 36 (2003) 663-666.Effect of Bi content on the electrical properties of Ge20Se80-xBix thin films. Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, I.P. Jain. Proc. DAE, SSP Symp. Vol. 45 (2002) 243.
• Optical properties of irradiated Ge20Se80-xBix thin film. Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, I.P.Jain. Optical Materials, 27 (2004) 395-398.
• Hydrogen in obliquely deposited LaNi5 thin films. B. Devi, M.Vashistha and I.P.Jain. Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy 26 (2001) 1189-1192.
• Study of Ni ion induced modifications of Irradiated Ge20Se76Bi4 thin films by AFM. Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, V. Ganesan, I.P. Jain. Proc. DAE, SSP Symp. Vol. 49 (2004) 366-367.
• Optical properties of Ge20Se80-xBix (x = 0, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12) thin films. Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, I.P.Jain, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials 7(5) (2005) 2647-2654.
• A Theoretical investigation of the optical properties of Ge20Se80-xBix thin films. Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, I.P. Jain, Chalcogenide Letters, 2(11) November 2005, 113 – 119.
• Theoretical investigation of the optical properties of Ge20Se80-xBix thin films Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, I.P.Jain, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 7 (6) 2005, 2963-2970.
• Electrical Conductivity and Thermoelectric Power of a-Ge20Se80-xBix Thin Films. Pratibha Sharma, M.Vashistha, G.S.Okram and I.P.Jain, Journal of Electro ceramics, (2006) 16, 549-552.
• Electrical and optical properties of hydrogenated RNi5/Co (R=Ce, La) bi-layer systems. R.K. Jain, Ankur Jain, Garima Agarwal, M. Vashistha, I.P. Jain, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 32 (2007) 1916 – 1921.
• Activation energy of obliquely deposited MmNi4.5Al0.5 and MmNi4.5Alo.5Hx thin films. I.P.Jain, M. Vashistha , P. Sharma, R. K. Jain and B.Devi, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 33 (2008) 408-412.
• Hydrogen absorption mechanism in obliquely deposited MmNi4.5Al0.5 thin film. M. Vashistha, Pratibha Sharma, Garima Agarwal and I. P. Jain, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 33 (2008) 404-407.
• Ion irradiation induced modifications in the surface morphology of Ge20Se74Bi6 thin films. Pratibha Sharma, M. Vashistha, V. Ganesan and I. P. Jain, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 462 (2008) 452–455.
• AFM study of the ion induced structural modifications of Ge-Se-Bi alloy. Pratibha Sharma, M.Vashistha, V.Ganesan, I.P.Jain, Proc. of Int Conf. on Condensed Matter Physics, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 2007.
• Lithium Borohydride as a Hydrogen Storage Material: A Review. Joydev Manna, Manvendra Vashistha, Pratibha Sharma, International Journal on Energy for Clean Environment 11(1–4), 65–97 (2010).
• Effect of Zeolites on Thermal Decomposition of Ammonia Borane. Aneesh C. Gangal, Raju Edla, Kartik Iyer, Rajesh Biniwale, Manvendra Vashistha, Pratibha Sharma, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 37 (2012) 3712-3718.
• Hydrogen – an ideal energy carrier. Manvendra Vashistha, Bio-Nano Frontier ISSN 0974-0678, Feb 2010.
• Energy Scenario and prospects of hydrogen as a clean future fuel. Pratibha Sharma, Manvendra Vashistha, Bio – Nano Frontier, ISSN 0974-0678, (6) 2011.
• Thermal decomposition of ammonia borane in presence of bentonite clay. Binayak Roy, Manvendra Vashistha, Pratibha Sharma, International Conference on environment and Humanity, held at Nepal from 28 Sept -1Oct 2013.
• Low cost synthesis of CZTS based absorber material for solar PV applications. Devendra Pareek, Balasubramaniam Kavaipatti, Manvendra Vashistha, Pratibha Sharma, International Conference on Environment and Humanity, held at Nepal from 28 Sept -1Oct 2013.
• Effect of Co+2/BH4- ratio in the synthesis of Co-B catalysts on sodium borohydride hydrolysis. Joydev Manna, Binayak Roy, Manvendra Vashistha, Pratibha Sharma, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 39 (2014) 406-413.
• Single junction a-Si:H solar cell with a-Si:H/nc-Si:H/a-Si:H quantum wells. Ankur Gupta, Manvendra Vashistha, Pratibha Sharma, Thin Solid Films, 550 (2014) 643–648.
• Kinetics and the thermal decomposition of Sodium Alanate in the presence of MmNi4.5Al0.5 nanoparticles. Raju Edla, Aneesh C. Gangal1, Joydev Manna, Manvendra Vashistha and Pratibha Sharma, Materials Research Express 1 (2014) 015501.
• Carbon Dioxide Plume Geothermal (CPG)System- a new approach for enhancing geothermal energy production and deployment of CCUS on large scale in India. Nandlal Gupta and Manvendra Vashistha, Elsevier, Energy Procedia 00 (2016).
• Generation of Electricity Using Carbon Dioxide From Waste Emissions as a Working Fluid in Geological Subsurface. Nandlal Gupta and Manvendra Vashistha, IJIRSE, Vol. No.2, Issue 04, April 2016, ISSN-2454-9665,
• Carbon Dioxide Powered Geothermal Energy Mechanism to Use Waste Co2 from Emissions for Harnessing Energy, Nandlal Gupta and Manvendra Vashistha, IJIRSE, Vol.No.1, Issue 12 May 2015.
• CCS combined with Geothermal Energy Generation – Hybrid Geothermal Energy Concept. Nandlal Gupta and Manvendra Vashistha, Elsevier, Energy Procedia 00 (2018).
• Numerical Study on CO2 injection in Indian Geothermal reservoirs using COMSOL Multiphysics 5.2a’ accepted for oral presentation in ICAER 2019, at DESE, IIT Bombay and finally for International Journal “Energy Procedia”
• CCS Combined with Geothermal Energy Generation- Hybrid Geothermal Energy Concept Published in Advances in Energy Research, Vol. 2, 2020 Dated May 5th, 2020 One Research article recently accepted in “Advances in Energy Research”, 2020
• Tailoring the activation behaviour and oxide resistant properties of the TiFe alloys by doping with Mn. Subhasis pati, Swapneel Trimbake, Manvendra Vashistha and Pratibha Sharma, International journal of Hydrogen Energy Elsevier Publication, August 2021.
• Methods on Plasma Technology for the novel Conversion of CO2. Ishan ingle, Dr. Pallavi Raote, and Dr. Manvendra Vashistha in International journal of innovative research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 12, Issue 3, March 2023.
• Poly assisted Dehydrogenation and Regeneration of Ammonia Borane: A step towards the identification of Sustainable hydrogen storage material. Published as part of ACS Applied energy Materials special issue Metal Hydrogen Systems. Ankita Bishnoi, Binayak Roy, Animesh Hazari, urbi Pol, Joydev Manna Manvendra Vashistha and Pratibha Sharma.

Awards and Recognitions

• Among Top 30 Scientist in the field of Energy in India selected by Department of Technology, New Delhi and Humboldt Foundation Germany in 2012-13
• Recognized Post Graduate Guide University of Mumbai
• University of Mumbai Vice Chancellor’s Nominee as a Subject Expert in Applied Physics
• University of Mumbai Chairperson / Paper Setter for the subject Applied Physics
• Silver Medalist at Graduation level from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

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