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Hey hi, I am a theoretical condensed matter physicist, working as an Assistant Professor (Physics) at the Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, India. Earlier, I was a Researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Solid-state Physics (ITF), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany, from Mar 2019 - Nov 2021, working with PD Dr Manuel Richter and Prof. Jeroen van den Brink. My current focus lies in the correlated and spin-orbit coupled systems with regard to their electronic, magnetic and optical properties. Of particular interest are the quantum spin liquid candidate Kitaev-Heisenberg magnets and non-linear optical response in materials. To this end, I use density-functional theory (DFT), classical Monte Carlo simulations and effective Hamiltonian techniques.
I am also interested in materials design, machine learning, game theory, and algorithm trading.
Read on for a bit of background . . .
Earlier, from November 2015 till February 2019, I was an ESF Young Researcher in Computer Simulations for Materials Design (CoSiMa), Dresden Center for Computational Materials Science (DCMS), TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. As part of the project I was working on "Magnetic Bistability in Endohedral Metallofullerenes", in collaboration with Dr. Manuel Richter, Dr. Liviu Hozoi, Prof. Jeroen van den Brink at IFW Dresden, and Prof. Gotthard Seifert (Retd.) in TU Dresden.
Before that, from November 2013 till October 2015, I was a Research Associate (post doctoral fellow) at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India working with Dr. Sanjeev Kumar in the Department of Physical Sciences focussing on "low-dimensional doped magnets".
After completing my PhD on "Disorder and Correlation Effects on a Honeycomb Lattice: Application to Graphene" under the supervision of Prof. Avinash Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India I was a visiting research fellow at Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC) Kolkata, India [from April 2013 to October 2013] and later moved to IISER Mohali.
I did B.Sc. Physics (Hons.) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, India and M.Sc. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), India.
