Principal Investigator: Bahadur SINGH (बहादुर सिंह)
Reader (Assistant Professor), DCMPMS, TIFR Mumbai (2020/07 - Present)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NUS-SZU International Collaborative Center Shenzhen (2018/01 - 2019/12)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CA2DM, NUS Singapore (2015/10 - 2017/12)
Ph.D. IIT Kanpur (2009/12-2015/05)
Office: A167, DCMPMS, TIFR Mumbai 400005
Lab: AB95, DCMPMS, TIFR Mumbai 400005
Phone: +91-22-2278-2437
Email: bahadur.singh@tifr.res.in
Important resources: Google Scholar, Research Gate, ORCiD, arXiv
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Amrita Mukherjee
Ph.D.: University of Kalyani West Bengal
Amrita joined our group in December 2022. She is working on the analytical design of the topological flat bands and associated nontrivial properties in decorated lattices.
Email: amritaphy92@gmail.com
Graduate Students
Rahul Verma
Rahul joined our group in July 2021. He is working on nontrivial states in quantum magnets and low-dimensional materials using the density-functional theory, time-dependent density functional theory, and related methodologies.
Email: rahul.verma@tifr.res.in, rahul.physics1297@gmail.com
Pritesh Srivastava
Pritesh joined our group in July 2023. He is working on parity-time-reversal (PT) symmetry-broken collinear antiferromagnets with a focus on resolving their momentum space spin-splitting and associated nontrivial states and responses using materials-specific modeling and models.
Email: pritesh.srivastava@tifr.res.in, pritesh.tifr@gmail.com
Yash Vardhan
Yash joined our group in January 2025. He is working on the development and application of NEP potentials and DFT-ML methods for quantum and energy materials.
Email: yash.vardhan@tifr.res.
JRF/M.Sc. Students
Manorama Pandey
Manorama is a JRF student working on the theoretical prediction and modeling of chiral phonons in quantum materials, with potential applications in sensor technologies.
Email: manorama.pandey@tifr.res.in
Rudra Prasad Sahu
Rudra is an M.Sc. project student in our group, working on inverse materials design, the development of indigenous materials databases, and unsupervised machine-learning approaches for predicting quantum materials.
Email: rudraphy31@gmail.com
Project/Visiting Students (current/past)
Omkar Kulkarni [December 2025 - Present]
Krishna Gupta [May 2025 – July 2025]
Siddhant Deshpande [May 2025 – July 2025]
Arpita Koley [Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025]
Abhirup Roy Karmakar [April 2024 – June 2024]
Ashish Kore [Feb. 2022-May 2022]
Amrita Mukherjee [Aug. 2022- Sep. 2022]
Rudra Prasad Sahu [May 2024 – July 2024]
Omkar Kulkarni [June 2024 - July 2024]
Shampa Rana [Jan. 2024 – Nov. 2024]
Pragya Agnihotri [Dec. 2022 – April 2023]
Eeshan Ketker [Jan. 2022 - Feb. 2022]
Anurag Verma [July 2023]
Group Alumni
Birender Singh (Ph.D. IIT Mandi)
After TIFR: Postdoc at Boston College USA
Bikash Patra (Ph.D. NISER Bhubaneswar)
After TIFR: Faculty at IIIT Surat India