Research and teaching experience: 27 years

Author and co-author of more than 140 peer‐reviewed papers and conference proceedings (Impact Factor >200 & h-Index > 30). Papers as a single author in reputed journals (10). Granted Patents: 04.

Received several Awards/Recognitions inducing, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (JSPS, Govt. of Japan), Postdoctoral Research Associate of Carnegie Mellon University (USA), DST-Young Scientist (DST, Govt. of India), Uttarakhand State Young Scientist (Govt. of UK), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) visiting scholar/Professor (Govt. of China) and Postdoctoral Fellowship of Hokkaido University, Japan (Three times), Visiting Professor of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Research excellence award of DTU (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024) and Innovation Award (2024).

Listed in the world's Top 2% of Scientists list of Stanford University/Elsevier.

Field of research interest: 

Working in the field of fluorescence Spectroscopy of Organic Molecules, Organic polymers, Organometallic and Nanomaterials (Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots and 2D Materials), Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and SHG materials, Thin solid film measurement. Development of optical probes/sensors to monitor/detect hazardous/explosive entities in the environment.

We are using four important and most sensitive techniques. Namely Steady State and Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic techniques, and Electric Field Modulation technique along with several other systems, and Transient absorption spectroscopy.

Equipment: 

Spectrometer, Spectrofluorometer, Time-correlated single photon counting system, electric field modulation spectrometer, spin coating unit, vacuum vapour deposition systems, Delta diode lasers, Cryostat (<10K), Peltier systems, furnace, vacuum oven, sonicators.