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Scientist-D/Assistant Professor
Dr. Chandan Bera joined as scientist in the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali on May-2014. He received his M.Sc degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2007 and he worked in CEA-Grenoble and Ecole Centrale Paris during his PhD degree and recvied his PhD on October-2010. During his PhD, Dr. Bera with collaboration Dr. Natalio Mingo, CEA- Grenoble, and Dr. Sebastian Volz, Ecole Centrale Paris did modelling of thermal conductivity calculation of Si based nanostructured (NWs and nanogarined) materials by using Boltzmann transport equation and Monte Carlo simulation technique. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral reasercher at Prof. Georg Madsen group at ICAMS, Rühr Universität Bochum on calculation of defect phase stability in binary chalcogenide and thermoelectric properties in these materials. This work includes the identification of Silver doping in SnS for efficient thermoelectric device. Currently, he is working on the thermal and electron transport mechanism in alloy materials and devloping a simple predictive model for thermal and electron transport in 2D and nanostructure materials for efficient design of thermoelectric device. His group also interested for electron and spin transport properties in hetrostructure interface and working on the electronic and spintronic properties of the interface from the atomistic calculation based on density functional theory.
SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Lenin joined as National Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Nanoscience and Technology, Mohali on April 2019. He received his M.Sc degree from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli in 2007 and he received his Ph.D from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune on December 2016 under the supervision of Dr. P. A. Joy. During his Ph.D. he worked on magnetic and thermal properties of magnetic fluids for heat transfer applications. Later on he joined as institute postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Nanoscience and Technology, Mohali on Feb 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Chandan Bera. In his postdoctoral research he worked on the thermal and electrical properties of the polymer nanocomposites and nanofluids.
PhD Student (INST Funded)
Ms. Sonali Kakkar joined as Ph.D student under the supervision of Dr. Chandan Bera in the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali in January-2018. She received her M.Sc (H.S.) degree from Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2016 . She worked in project titled “Sensing Applications of Organic Materials” under the supervision of Prof. S.K. Tripathi during her M.Sc. She qualified GATE-2016, GATE-2017 with AIR 222 and CSIR-UGC in December 2017. She joined as project-JRF in project titled ”Computational studies of spin polarisation in ternary chalcogenides” under Dr. Chandan Bera in September 2017. Currently, she is working on the effects of spin orbit coupling on nanostructures using the atomistic calculation based on density functional theory.
PhD Student (DST Inspire Fellow)
Ajit Singh joined as a Ph.D student under the supervision of Dr. Chandan Bera at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali on January-2017. He completed his M.Sc(Hons.) degree from Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2016. He qualified CSIR-NET in Physical sciences in December-2015 and he obtained DST-Inspire fellowship for PhD in 2018. He is working on the method development for the thermal conductivity and contact resistance measurement of nano heterostructurematerials. His works also include the thermal properties measurement of nanofluids for heat transfer applications.
PhD Student (CSIR JRF Fellow)
Parrydeep Kaur Sachdeva is a Ph.D student, working under the supervision of Dr. Chandan Bera at Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali and Panjab University, Chandigarh since September 2018. She joined INST in February 2018 as a Project JRF. She received her M.Sc(Hons.) degree from Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2017 and she worked on the project tilted ‘Dual axis solar tracker and its energy monitoring’ during her M.Sc. She qualified UGC-NET in Electronic Science in November 2017 and July 2018 and JRF in December 2018. Currently, she is working on the electronic structure and electrical properties of piezoelectric nanomaterials such as semi-crystalline polymer using density functional theory. The further study will include the prediction of new 2D nanostructure materials for efficient piezoelectric power generation.
PhD Student (SERB-EMR Funded Project)
Ms. Raveena Gupta is working as a Ph.D student in Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali and Panjab University, Chandigarh since January, 2019. She received her M.Sc degree from Department of Physics, St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta University, Kolkata in 2017 . She worked in project titled “The Dielectric Breakdown Model applied to explain various morphologies of deposited alloyed structures in thin gap alloy electro-deposition” under the supervision of Prof. Subhankar Ghosh during her M.Sc. She qualified GATE in March 2018 and joined as project-JRF in project titled ”Computational prediction of novel thermoelectric materials”. She is working in the field of thermoelectricity investigating thermoelectric properties of chalcogenides using BoltzTraP2, Phonopy and homemade code.
Ms. Baljinder Kaur joined as a project assistant under the guidance of Dr. Chandan Bera in the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali in February-2019. She received her Msc degree from Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2016. She has qualified GATE-2019. Currently, she is working on the deformation potential and electronic structures of bulk and 2D nano-materials using atomistic calculation.