Ms Neha Sharma, Research Student, School of Physics (SoP), Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra (J&K) has been declared qualified for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy(Ph.D.) in Physics. She has carried out her research on the topic, titled “Spectroscopic Investigations on some Healthy and Diseased Plant Samples”, under the supervision of Dr Vivek Kumar Singh and Dr Yugal Khajuria, Faculty, SoP, SMVDU.She has published five SCIE and one SCOPUS indexed research publications in international journals of her field of study. She thanks DST Govt. of India for INSPIRE Fellowship to conduct her research.