Ananya Banik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
IIT (ISM), Dhanbad
Dhanbad, Jharkhand
India
Email:ananyabanik@iitism.ac.in
Ananya Banik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
IIT (ISM), Dhanbad
Dhanbad, Jharkhand
India
Email:ananyabanik@iitism.ac.in
EDUCATION
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore, India
Ph. D 03/2019
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore, India
M. S 06/2015
Presidency College, University of Calcutta Kolkata, India
B. Sc 07/2012
Research Experience
IIT (ISM), Dhanbad Dhanbad, India
Assistant Professor 03/2025-Present
Designing functional materials for solid-state batteries and thermoelectrics
Research Institute for Sustainable Energy Kolkata, India
TCG Centres for Research and 09/2023-03/2025
Education in Science and Technology (TCG-CREST)
Senior Research Scientist
Designing functional materials for solid-state batteries
University of Münster Münster, Germany
Postdoctoral researcher 07/2022 – 07/2023
Developing halide and thiophosphate sulfide solid electrolyte for solid-state batteries
University of Münster Münster, Germany
Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow 07/2020 – 06/2022
Structure-properties correlation in lithium ion conducting halide solid electrolytes
University of Giessen Giessen, Germany
Postdoctoral researcher 04/2019 – 06/2020
Thiophosphate solid electrolytes for Li-S batteries
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore, India
Doctoral student 06/2015 – 03/2019
Thermoelectric energy conversion based on Sn-chalcogenides
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore, India
M.S. student 07/2012 – 06/2015
Thermoelectric energy conversion based on lead-free chalcogenides
Fellowship and Awards
Young Scientist Award
in the Global Conference for Decarbonization of Energy and Materials, Singapore.
2024
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship
2020
KPIT-IISER Pune Energy & Mobility PhD Conference
KPIT Shodh Award
2019
Science and Engineering Research Board, India
International Travel Support Award
2018
Department of Science & Technology, India
INSPIRE fellowship
2014