Shivani Dhall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at DAV College, Jalandhar, India. Previously, she served as a National Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at IIT Delhi. During her PhD, she conducted research at the Centre for Energy Nanoscience (CEN) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. Her research interests are in the exploration of structural and electrical properties of graphene based new hybrid nanostructures with size selective Pd and SnO2 nanoparticles and structural and electrical studies of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and their composites.