Professional Experience:

• Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), July 2026 - Till date
• Visiting Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), July 2019 - July 2026.
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), July 2017 - July 2019
• Lecturer, Vivekanand College, Aurangabad, MS, India, April 2014 - July2017, July 2019 - Till date
• JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan, April 2012 - April 2014
• Lecturer, Vivekanand College, Aurangabad, MS, India, March 2006 - April 2012

Research Contribution:

My research field is mainly focused on magnetism and magnetic materials; ferroelectrics, and extending my research area to spintronics, multi-walled carbon nano-tubes and multiferroics. Published more than 200 research papers in international peer reviewed journals and also a reviewer of more than 50 research journals. I am also working as an editorial board member of 6 international peer reviewed journals.

Honours, Awards and Memberships: 

• Listed in the ranking of scientists of 2% by Stanford University, USA 
• JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
• Member of Magnetic Society of Japan
• Member of Indian Science Congress
• Member of Indian Physics Association

Research Funding: 

• UGC-CSR DAE, Mumbai, India, 'Magnetic structure of monodispersed FePt nanoparticles by neutron scattering', 2016 - Present.
• Japan Society for the the Promotion of Science, Japan, ‘Study of self-assembled ferrite nano-dot for high density patterned recording media’, 2012-2014.
• University Grants Commission, India, 'Magnetic ordering and hyperfine interactions in magnetic semiconducting nanoparticles', 2011 - 2016

Editor: 

1. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, IF: 2.9 (Publisher: Elsevier)
2. Nanomaterials, IF: 5.07 (Publisher: MDPI)
3. Sustainability, IF: 3.89 (Publisher: MDPI)
4. Nano, IF: 1.56 (Publisher: World Scientific)
5. Electrochemistry, IF: 5.22 (Publisher: Frontiers)

Selected Publications: 

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1. Sagar E. Shirsath, M. Hussein N. Assadi, Ji Zhang, Nitish Kumar, Anil S. Gaikwad, Jack Yang, Helen E. Maynard-Casely, Yee Yan Tay, Jianhao Du, Haoyu Wang, Yin Yao, Zibin Chen, Jinxing Zhang, Shujun Zhang, Sean Li, Danyang Wang, Interface-Driven Multiferroicity in Cubic BaTiO₃-SrTiO₃ Nanocomposites, ACS Nano  16, (2022) 15413–15424, doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c07215
2. Sagar E. Shirsath, Claudio Cazorla, Teng Lu, Le Zhang, Yee Yan Tay, Xiaojie Lou, Yun Liu, Sean Li, Danyang Wang, Interface-Charge Induced Giant Electrocaloric Effect in Lead Free Ferroelectric Thin-Film Bilayers, Nano Letters 20 (2020) 1262-1271
3. Sagar E. Shirsath, Danyang Wang, Ji Zhang, Akimitsu Morisako, Sean Li, and Xiaoxi Liu, Single-Crystal-like Textured Growth of CoFe₂O₄ Thin Film on an Amorphous Substrate: A Self-Bilayer Approach, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater, 2 (2020) 3650-3657.
4. Sagar E Shirsath, R H Kadam, K M Batoo, Danyang Wang,  Sean Li, Co–Al-substituted strontium hexaferrite for rare earth free permanent magnet and microwave absorber application, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54 (2021) 024001 (10pp).
5. Sagar E. Shirsath, Xiaoxi Liu, M.H.N. Assadi, Adnan Younis, Yukiko Yasukawa, Sumanta Kumar Karan, Ji Zhang, Jeonghun Kim, Danyang Wang, Akimitsu Morisako, Yusuke Yamauchi, Sean Li, Au quantum-dots engineered room temperature crystallization and magnetic anisotropy in CoFe₂O₄ thin film, Nanoscale Horizons, 4, (2019) 434-444, doi: 10.1039/C8NH00278A
6. Sagar E. Shirsath, Xiaoxi Liu, Yukiko Yasukawa, Sean Li, Akimitsu Morisako, Switching of magnetic easy-axis using crystal orientation for large perpendicular coercivity in CoFe2O4 thin film, Scientific Reports, 6, 30074 (2016).
7. Yukiko Yasukawa, Xiaoxi Liu, Sagar Shirsath, Hisayuki Suematsu, Yukio Kotaki, Yoshihiro Nemoto, Masaki Takeguchi, Akimitsu Morisako, Control of the spatial distribution and crystal orientation of self-organized Au nanoparticles, Nanotechnology,  27, 385605 (2016).
8. Sagar E. Shirsath, Yukiko Yasukawa, Ali Ghasemi, Xiaoxi Liu, and Akimitsu Morisako, Bi2O3 liquid phase assisted and Mn substituted permeability and magnetic properties of Ni-Cu-Zn ferrite for MLCI application, J. Appl. Phys. 115 (2014) 17A515.
9. Sagar E. Shirsath, Mahesh L. Mane, Yukiko Yasukawa, Xiaoxi Liu and Akimitsu Morisako, Self-ignited high temperature synthesis and enhanced super-exchange interactions of Ho³⁺-Mn²⁺-Fe³⁺-O^2- ferromagnetic nanoparticles, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 2347 (2014).
10. Sagar E. Shirsath, R. H. Kadam, S. M. Patange, M. L. Mane, Ali Ghasemi, Akimitsu Morisako, Enhanced magnetic properties of Dy³⁺ substituted Ni-Cu-Zn ferrite nanoparticles, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 042407 (2012).
11. Sagar E. Shirsath, Santosh S. Jadhav, B. G. Toksha, S. M. Patange, and K. M. Jadhav, Remarkable influence of Ce4+ ions on the electronic conduction of Ni1-2xCexFe2O4, Scripta Materialia 64, 773 (2011).
12. B. G. Toksha, Sagar E. Shirsath, M. L. Mane, S. M. Patange, S. S. Jadhav, K. M. Jadhav, Auto-combustion high-temperature synthesis, structural and magnetic properties of CoCrxFe2-xO4 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1.0), ‎J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 20905 (2011).