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Bhawna Sharma

Bhawna Sharma is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. She is based at the University of Białystok in Poland, where she works with magnetic ultrathin films. Her PhD explores how magnetism behaves at the nanoscale – think tiny whirlpool-like structures called skyrmions that could one day change how computers store information. She finds it endlessly exciting that something invisible to the naked eye could change the world. When she is not in the lab, Bhawna is either planning her next trip somewhere new, getting lost in a novel, or having a complicated relationship with a paintbrush where what ends up on the canvas rarely matches what she had in mind.

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