Hari Nair obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. After PhD, Nair was a postdoctoral researcher at (a) Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany (b) University of Johannesburg, South Africa and (c) Colorado State University (USA) before joining UTEP as an assistant professor in Fall 2017.

• Ph D in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Indian institute of Science, India (2009)

• Antiferromagnetism and the emergence of frustration in the sawtooth lattice chalcogenide olivines Mn2SiS4- xSex (x= 0--4) Physical Review B 99 18 (2019), Hariharan Nhalil, Raju Baral, Bethuel O. Khamala, Adrian Cosio, Srinivasa R. Singamaneni, Magdalena Fitta, Daniel Antonio, Krzysztof Gofryk, Rajendra Zope, Tunna Baruah, Bayram Saparov, Harikrishnan S. Nair.
• Crystal Growth of Quantum Magnets in the Rare-Earth Pyrosilicate Family R2Si2O7 (R= Yb, Er) Using the Optical Floating Zone Method Crystals 9 4 (2019), Harikrishnan S. Nair, Tim DeLazzer, Tim Reeder, Antony Sikorski, Gavin Hester, Kate A. Ross.
• Evolution of the spin-flop antiferromagnetic transition and the emergence of frustration in saw-tooth lattice Mn2SiS4-xSex (x = 0 - 4) chalcogenides Bulletin of the American Physical Society (2019), Hariharan Nhalil, Raju Baral, Bethuel O. Khamala, Adrian Cosio, Srinivasa R. Singamaneni, Magdalena Fitta, Daniel Antonio, Krzysztof Gofryk, Rajendra Zope, Tunna Baruah, Bayram Saparov, Harikrishnan S. Nair.
• Field-Independent Features in the Magnetization and Specific Heat of Sm3Co4Ge13 Crystals 9 6 (2019), Harikrishnan S. Nair, Ramesh Kumar, Baidyanath Sahu, Sindisiwe P. Xhakaza, Pramita Mishra, Debkanta Samal, Sarit K. Ghosh, Biju R. Sekhar, Andre M. Strydom.
• Low dimensional magnetism in the trirutile tantalates Co1- xMgxTa2O6 with weak-ferromagnetic features Journal of Applied Physics 125 3 (2019), Raju Baral, Hector S. Fierro, Luis M. Martinez, Srinivasa Singamaneni, Harikrishnan Nair.

• Probing the stability of Shastry Sutherland lattice in Er2Pd2Sn and Er2Pd2In (2019), Volume Lubbock, TX, G S. Saucedo, B Sahu, A M. Strydom, Harikrishnan Nair.
• Frustrated magnetism and Emergence (2019), Volume UTEP Physics Department, Harikrishnan Nair.
• Phase transitions in novel Li-containing honeycombs Li8Cr2(Te/Sb)2O12 (2019), Volume TX, S L. Gonzalez, N Episcopo, R Baral, N Poudel, K Gofryk, Harikrishnan Nair.
• Frustrated magnets with sawtooth, hyperkagome, honeycomb and Shastry Sutherland lattices (2019), Volume Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Harikrishnan Nair.
• Magnetic frustration and antiferromagnetism in saw-tooth lattice Mn2SiS4−xSex (x = 0-4) chalcogenides (2019), Volume Phoenix, H Nhalil, R Baral, A Cosio, B O. Khamala, S Singamaneni, M Fitta, Rajendra Zope, Tunna Baruah, D Antonio, K Gofryk, B Saparov, Harikrishnan Nair.

• Frustrated Spins: Enabling Targeted Design Towards Multifunctional Quantum Materials
• Exploring frustrated magnets to build a sustainable, environment-friendly, efficient solid state refrigerant
• Rising Stars award for "Novel multifunctional materials"