Invited Speaker

Bhavesh Kamaliya serves as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Sessional Faculty at McMaster University, Canada, within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Under the mentorship of Prof. Nabil Bassim, his research focus is on developing advanced and unconventional nanomanufacturing strategies, local defect engineering, and self-assembly by playing with ion-materials interactions using focused ion beam (FIB) systems based at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, McMaster University. He earned his joint PhD in 2021 from IIT Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia, on studying focused ion beam interaction with materials and nanostructure fabrication. His doctoral work unraveled new pathways towards self-organization-governed miniaturization in nanofabrication, exploring innovative single-step FIB processes. His research draws inspiration from natural self-organization phenomena, such as dune ripples and leaf venation, to address challenges in nanostructure fabrication, pushing the boundaries of conventional nanofabrication techniques. Dr. Kamaliya’s contributions continue to shape the future of nanotechnology, blending experimental rigor with creative problem-solving aided by his expertise in computational electrodynamics and molecular dynamics. Before joining McMaster University, he worked as a postdoc fellow at IIT Bombay, investigating nanopatterning with FIB for plasmonic lenses and photonic structures. At IIT Bombay, he also served as an expert resource person and trained a team of electron microscopists on the newly commissioned FIB system at the Center for Research in Nano Technology and Science.