Faculty Office, 2nd Floor, Admin Building, North Wing, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, Yerpedu - Venkatagiri Road, Yerpedu Post, Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh, Pincode - 517619
Email: ashish.kulkarni@iittp.ac.in
Faculty Office, 2nd Floor, Admin Building, North Wing, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, Yerpedu - Venkatagiri Road, Yerpedu Post, Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh, Pincode - 517619
Email: ashish.kulkarni@iittp.ac.in
Education
5-Year Integrated Master of Science in Chemistry - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee, India.
Ph.D. with Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka (inventor of perovskite solar cells) at Toin University of Yokohama, Japan.
Topic: Lead and Lead-free Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
Professional Experience
2025 - Present: Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati
2023 - 2024: DAAD-PRIME Fellow with Prof. Sanjay Mathur at the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany and with Prof. Shahzada Ahmad at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Bilbao, Spain.
2020 - 2023: Postdoctoral Scientist with Prof. Thomas Kirchartz and Prof. Michael Saliba at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany.
2018 - 2019: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka, Toin University of Yokohama, Japan.
Funding and Awards
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship - 2017 to 2019.
"Emerging Young Scientist Award" by the Materials Research Society of Japan (2017).
Best Research Article award by the Bulletin Chemical Society of Japan (2018).
DAAD PRIME Fellowship - 2023 to 2024.