Personal details:

Gender: Male 

Age: 37 yrs 

Nationality: Indian 

Languages known: English, Bengali, Hindi

Permanent Address: Gourpara, P.O. - Chakdaha, Dist. - Nadia, West Bengal - 741222 

     Educational Qualification: 

B. Sc. in Physics (Hons.), University of Kalyani, India (2005-2008). 

M. Sc. in Physics (Specialization in Solid State Physics), University of Kalyani, India (2008-2010).

Ph. D. in Physics, University of Kalyani, India (April, 2011 - December, 2016). 

Postdoc, MPIPKS, Germany (January, 2017 - November, 2018). 

Postdoc, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (December, 2018 - September, 2019). 

Postdoc, Tel Aviv University, Israel (October, 2019 - February, 2020).

     Scholarships/Achievements/Awards/Recognition:

• West Bengal Govt. Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship for pursuing postgraduate studies (2008-2010).

• Sidhartha Sengupta Memorial Medal from the University of Kalyani for being First class First in M. Sc. in Physics.

• INSPIRE Fellowship from DST (Govt. of India) for pursuing Ph. D. (2011-2016).

• CEFIPRA-ESONN Indo-French Fellowship 2014 for participating in European School On Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies at Grenoble, France.

• South Asian Physics Foundation (SAPF) Student Travel Grant Award 2014 for presenting a paper in ICNSNT-2014 at Colombo, Sri Lanka.

• Best Student Presentation Award and Medal in ICNSNT-2014 at Colombo, Sri Lanka.

• Qualified in Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET).

• Delivered an invited talk as an ESONN Fellow in the annual meeting of CEFIPRA, 2014 at IACS, Kolkata to promote the CEFIPRA-ESONN Fellowship.

• Best Research Scholar Award 2015 in Science Faculty - awarded by the University of Kalyani.

• Newton-Bhabha Fellowship 2015 from British Council and DST, India to visit the University of Warwick, UK for a period of 3 months.

• Selected by DST, India and Lindau Scientific Council for participation in the 66th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students at Lindau, Germany.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Germany.

• Kreitman Postdoctoral Scholarship to work at the Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for international students from the Tel Aviv University, Israel. 

• Appointed as a regular referee for the journals of American Physical Society (APS) in 2020. 

• Best Oral Presentation Award in Physics Discipline in the 5th Regional Science and Technology Congress 2022-23 at the University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal.

• Outstanding Oral Presentation Award (Rank-1st) in Physics Discipline in the 30th West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress 2023 at the Science City, Kolkata, West Bengal.

• Invited as a CNRS visiting research faculty for one month by Grenoble Center of Theoretical Physics (CPTGA), France to work at the Neel Institute in Grenoble, France (2023). 

• Invited as a visiting research faculty for one month by the Condensed Matter Theory (TMC) Group at the Neel Institute in Grenoble, France (2024).

      Other professional activities:

•  I have worked as a reviewer for the following scientific journals: 

1. Physical Review Letters (APS Publication) 

2. Physical Review B (APS Publication) 

3. Physical Review Research (APS Publication)

4. Physical Review A (APS Publication)

5. New Journal of Physics (IOP Publication)

6.  Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (IOP Publication)

7. Physica Scripta (IOP Publication) 

8. Measurement Science and Technology (IOP Publication)  

9. Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures (Elsevier Publication) 

10. Physica B: Condensed Matter (Elsevier Publication) 

11. Physica Status Solidi B (Wiley Publication)

12. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (RSC Publication)

13. Nanophotonics (De Gruyter Publication)

• I have been appointed as a Topic Editor in Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110), an international, scientific, peer-reviewed journal published by MDPI (Basel, Switzerland).

• I have been appointed as a Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Condensed Matter Physics (speciality section of Frontiers in Physics)

      Previous research experience:

• A six month project work entitled "Magneto-transport in a simple model quantum device" done during M. Sc. courses from the University of Kalyani under the supervision of Prof. Arunava Chakrabarti.

• April 2011 - April 2013, DST-INSPIRE Fellow (JRF), University of Kalyani, India.

• June 2015 - August 2015, Visiting Research Student in Physics (Newton-Bhabha Fellow), University of Warwick, UK.

• April 2013 - April 2016, DST-INSPIRE Fellow (SRF), University of Kalyani, India.

• January 2017 - November 2018, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Germany.

• December 2018 - September, 2019, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

• October 2019 - February, 2020, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

     Computer skills:

• Operating systems known: Windows, Linux - Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE.

• I have expertise in handling different scientific softwares (tools) in both Linux and Windows operating systems.

• Programming languages known: FORTRAN, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python (beginner).