2025- : Research Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, College of Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology-KTR Campus, Chennai, INDIA
2018- 2025: Scientist III (Technical research center) and SERB Ramanujan Fellow, School of Applied & Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, INDIA [equivalent to Assistant Professor]
2016-2017: Research Fellow, Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2015- 2017: Senior Research Associate & Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2011- 2015: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
2009-2011: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
2008: Ph.D. (Physics, Jadavpur University), Department of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Honours
Internal Committee Member: NGPT Seoul-2026
Associate Editor: Journal of Electroceramics (Springer-Nature) August 2025-
Academic Editor 'Journal of Nanomaterials' (Hindwai Publishers; a Wiley brand) 2012 -2023
Elected Life Member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, UK- 2017
Governing Body Member of Clare Hall 2016-2017, University of Cambridge, UK
Editorial Board Member of Austin Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology (Austin Publishers) 2013 -present
Awards
Best Presenter in 'Energy Management' under 'Women in Environment Protection' theme in STREE2020 (Science Technology Research & Entrepreneurship Enhancement), JNU, India 2022.
Ramanujan Fellowship-SERB, Govt. India. 2017.
Returning Carers Scheme , University of Cambridge, UK 2017.
NonStipendiary Research Fellowship at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, UK –Oct. 2016-Oct. 2019.
aculty Travel Award Spring 2015-University of South Florida College of Arts and Sciences for presenting in “Alumina and Other Functional Ceramics” (AOFC-2015), CGCRI Kolkata.
Materials Research Society (MRS), USA Childcare Grant for “Early Career Materials Scientists”, Spring 2013 and Fall 2014 Meetings.
“Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman 2014” by Non-Resident Indians (NRI) Welfare Society of India, USA.
‘Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund’ award, India, 2006.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-University Grand Commission (CSIR-UGC), National Eligibility Test (NET) fellowship for Ph.D. Research Fellowship, India, 2003 and 2004 (not availed).
All India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Fellowship, India, 2004 (not availed).
University Gold medal for securing first rank in ‘Applied Geology’ in Jadavpur University, India, 2004.
‘S.N. Bando Memorial Gold Medal’, 2004 for setting record marks among all the courses at the Master of Science Examination.
‘Pramotho Nath Bose Memorial Bronze Medal’, 2004.
‘B.N. Dutta Memorial Gold Centered Silver Medal’, 2004.
National Scholarship for Higher Secondary Examination, 1999.
National Scholarship for Secondary Examination, 1997.