Principal Investigator
Dr. Ajay Soni
Professor, School of Physical Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi,
Email: ajay@iitmandi.ac.in
Phone +91-1905-267854
Ankit Kashyap
Office: Second Floor A8 Building, South Campus, IIT Mandi
M Sc (Chemistry), IIT Mandi, Mandi
Research Interests: Solution Growth, Chemistry of Chalcogenides Materials
Aditya Singh
Office: Second Floor A8 Building, South Campus, IIT Mandi,
B Sc (Physics), Central University of Jammu, Jammu
Research Interests: Topological Quantum Materials and Thin Films
Aksa Thomas
Office: Second Floor A8 Building, South Campus, IIT Mandi,
B Sc (Physics), Kannur University, Kerala
Research Interests: Carbon and TMDCs Based Functional Devices
Prithwija Mandal
Office: Second Floor A8 Building, South Campus, IIT Mandi,
M Sc (Physics), Vidyasagar University, Midnapur
Research Interests: Raman Spectroscopy, Chalcogenides, Charge Density Wave materials
Memansa Thapa
Office: Second Floor A8 Building, South Campus, IIT Mandi,
M Sc (Physics), NIT Hamirpur 2022-24
Research Interests: Optical Studies of Twsited Nanomaterials
Atul Jhalani
Office: Second Floor A8 Building, South Campus, IIT Mandi,
M Sc (Physics), Rajasthan University 2022-24
Research Interests: Phonon Engineered Thermoelectric Materials
Email: D24050@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Deepak Kumar
Office: Second Floor A8 Building, South Campus, IIT Mandi,
M Sc (Physics), NIT Calicut, Kerala
Research Interests: Thermoelectric Materials
Graduate and Masters Students
Malavika Nair,
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Email:mnair6@uwo.ca
Parul Gupta
Email: di2409@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Nainsi Guleriya
Email: gulerianainsi@gmail.com
Khushi Singh,
M Sc Physics (IIT Mandi)
Email:v24089@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Deepak Chaurasia,
M Sc Physics (IIT Mandi)
Email:v24041@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Alumni Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Manoj Kumar
Currently a Faculty Members
PhD from National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi and RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Research Interests: Solution Grown Thermoelectric Materials,
Email: manoj15111993kumar@gmail.com
Alumni PhD Students
Dr. Mahesh Soni (2014--18)
Left group for Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Glasgow, and University of Lancaster, UK
Presently Product Portfolio Lead | at Nexperia, Newport, UK
Email: m.soni@lancaster.ac.uk
Dr. Somnath Acharya (2013-19)
Left Group for Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay
Presently Research Professor at Yonsei University, South Korea
Email: somnath@yonsei.ac.kr
Dr. Juhi Pandey (2014-20)
Presently Post Doctoral Fellow at KAIST, South Korea
Email: pandeyjuhi@kaist.ac.kr
Dr. Niraj Singh (2016-21)
Presently Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Linkoping, Sweden
Email: niraj.kumar.singh@liu.se
Dr. Divya Rawat (2019-2024)
M Sc (Physics) SLIET, Punjab
Research Interests: Raman Spectroscopy, Chalcogenides, Charge Density Wave materials
Email: divyarawat131@gmail.com
Dr. Kewal Singh Rana (2019-2024)
M Sc (Physics), HP University, Shimla
Research Interests: Thermoelectric Materials, Chalcogenides, Large Unit Cell Minerals
Email:
Alumni Interns
Arvasu Kulkarni
B Tech Engineering Physics
2021-25
Arush
B Tech Engineering Physics
2021-25
Srijan
M Sc Physics from
IIT Madras 2021-25
Alumni Masters Students
Bhavya
Email:v23098@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Divya Bhardwaj
Email:v23086@students.iitmandi.ac.in
Riya Nager
M Tech Biotechnology 2020-22
Akshi
Integrated Bs-MSc (Physics)
NIT Patna 2022-23
Shraddha
M Sc in Energy Sciences
Amrita University 2021-23
Shivani
M Tech Biotechnology 2022-24
Area: Microfluidic Devices
Shivani Tiwari
M Sc Chemistry 2019-21
Pursuing Teaching
Nikita
M Sc Chemistry 2019-21
Working for Company
Yogesh
M Sc Physics 2018-20
Pursuing Teaching
Aakash
M Sc Physics 2018-20
Pursuing Teaching
Sreeshyam
M Sc Physics 2019-21
Pursuing PhD from USA
Sandhya
M Sc Physics 2019-21
Pursuing PhD from Taiwan
Liza
M Sc Physics 2019-21 Pursuing PhD from Finland
Abhishek
M Sc Chemistry 2019-21
Navmi Naik
Pursuing PhD from University Houston, USA
Aditya Prasun
Pursuing PhD at IIT Indore
Shumile Siddiqui
Pursuing PhD at INST Mohali
Pooja Manral
Pursuing PhD at IIT Roorkee
Memansa Thapa, NIT Hamirpur, (Summer Intern 2023)
Vishal Khandelwal, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan (Summer intern 2019) [Pursuing PhD in Kaust Soudi Arebia]
Navmi Naik, MG University, Kerala (Summer intern 2019) [Pursuing PhD at University of Houston, USA]
Mehak Sharma, Delhi University, Delhi (Summer intern 2019)
Priya Sharma, Palampur (Summer intern 2017)
Anjali Sharma, SLIET, Punjab (Summer intern 2017)
Clair Mathew, University of Liverpool, UK (Summer intern 2016)
Mani Mohan, IISER Bhopal, MP (Summer intern 2015-16) [Pursuing PhD at University of Quebec, Canada]
Nitika, University of Rajasthan (M Tech intern 2014)
Collaborators
Prof. Kanishka Biswas, JNCASR Bangalore, KA, India
Prof. Umesh Waghmare, JNCASR Bangalore, KA, India
Prof Abhishek Kumar Singh, IISc Bangalore
Dr. Chandan Bera, INST Mohali, Punjab India,
Prof Ashish Garg, IIT Kanpur
Prof TN Narayanan, TIFR Hyderabad
Prof. Arghya Taraphder, IIT kharagpur, India
Prof. Satinder K. Sharma, IIT Mandi, India
Prof. G. Ramanath, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
Prof. Nikhil Koratkar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
Prof. Takao Mori, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan
Prof. Per Eklund, Linkoping University, Sweden
Prof Xinlong Xu, Northwest University, Xi’an, P. R. China
Dr. S. Anwar, CSIR-IIMT, Bhubaneshwar, Orrisa, India