Research Experience

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow 

As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz with Prof. Dr. Mathias Kläui, I am looking at the charge and spin-polarized transport in Ultrawide bandgap semiconductors (UWBG).

Research Scientist

Presently, as a Research Scientist at the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, with Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan, my research focuses on Diamond Based Electronics and Metrology. Besides, I am also interested in Magnetism, Piezoelectricity, and dielectrics in low dimensional materials, 2D materials-based sensors, Optoelectronics, energy storage and micromechanical properties of materials.

Pstdctoral Research Associate

As a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, with Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan, my research focuses on Diamond Based Electronics and Metrology. Magnetism, Piezoelectricity, and dielectrics in low dimensional materials, 2D materials-based sensors, Optoelectronics, energy storage and micromechanical properties of materials are also in the prime list.

SERB Indo-US Research Fellow

As an Indo-US postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, with Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan, my research was focused on Magnetism, Dielectrics and Piezoelectricity in 2D materials. Also, while working on 2D materials-based sensors, research in the field of Energy Storage and associated Environmental Sciences always were exciting for me where the emphasis is on Li-S cells and supercapacitors.

Pstdoctoral Fellow

As a postdoctoral fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India with Dr. T.N. Narayanan, my research was focused on developing potential material compositions for flexible solid ion conductors while studying various types of relaxation phenomena in supercooled glassy liquids near to their glass transition temperatures (Tg). Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) were used for these studies.

Assistant Professor

I have served as Assistant Professor in Physics for two semesters  (August, 2015 to June, 2016). During this time I assisted in teaching an advanced course in engineering physics for B.Tec. students at the Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Kerala, India which involved both classroom-based learning (i.e. preparing and delivering lectures) and laboratory-based learning.

Ph. D.

I started my research career as a junior research fellow with Prof. S. Jayalekshmi in a research project funded by DAE, Government of India. During this course, I was exposed to various fields like plasmonics and nonlinear optical properties of nano gold/Silver conducting polymer composites and all the fundamental aspects of rechargeable battery technology starting from the electrode and electrolyte materials synthesis, their characterization in terms of structure and morphology in micro and nanoscale realms and finally to the electrochemical assessment using standard techniques and the cell assembling and testing.

Masters

Masters project involves the preparation of silver nanoparticle embedded silica matrix and their nonlinear optical and anti-bacterial studies. Prof. M.R. Anantharaman (CUSAT), Prof. Reji Philip (RRI) and Dr. Abdulaziz Anas (NIO-CSIR) guided the research.