Research archive

Independent research

Research across sustainability economics and neutron-moderator physics, alongside a published Curieux Review article. Read each paper online or view its document preview.

Preview of Green Energy Transition research

Economics · Sustainability · 2025

Green Energy Transition: Costs and Opportunities

An independent paper examining the UAE’s transition from fossil fuels toward renewable and lower-carbon energy systems, including solar, nuclear energy and battery storage. The analysis considers economic costs, policy trade-offs, investment implications, energy security, employment and long-term sustainability.

Presented at the Dubai Science Fair and received the Best Poster Award.

Preview of neutron moderator materials research

Nuclear Physics · Materials · 2026

Comparative Analysis of Neutron Moderator Materials

A comparative study of liquid hydrogen, solid methane, ice, methane hydrate, mesitylene, light water and heavy water, integrating neutronic performance, experimental evidence, radiation effects and engineering constraints.

Core conclusion: moderator selection is an application-dependent engineering trade-off rather than a search for one universally optimal material.

Journal publication

Curieux Review

First page of Dhruv Sharma’s Curieux Review paper on compact object mergers

Astrophysics · Gravitational waves

Compact Object Mergers as Laboratories for Extreme Matter, Curved Spacetime, and Fundamental Physics

A review of how compact-object mergers can probe strong-field gravity, ultra-dense matter and cosmology, including gravitational-wave observations and neutron-star properties.

Listed in Curieux Review’s October Issue, Issue 12 Part 3; the contents list the article on page 229.