Experience and Educational Details

Oct. 2023 - Present : Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, IIT Mandi, India

Oct. 2021 - Sept. 2023:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, USA (Advisor: Prof. Ivan Aprahamian)

Aug. 2015 - Jul. 2021: PhD, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali, Punjab, India (Advisor: Prof. Santanu Kumar Pal)

Aug. 2013 - May 2015: MS (Chemistry), Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali, Punjab, India (Advisor: Prof. Santanu Kumar Pal)

Jul. 2010 - May 2013: BSc (Chemistry Hons.), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Awards, Recognition and Memberships

Selected as an Early-Career Investigator Presenter in Liquid Crystal Gordon research Conference (GRC) 2023 at Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Awarded Dartmouth College Postdoc Association (DCPDA) Fund ($750) to attend Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors Gordon Research Conference (GRC) 2023 at New London, New Hampshire, United States

Awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) FY2021 postdoctoral fellowship, at University of Tokyo, Japan with Prof. Takashi Kato (not opted)

Qualified Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for Junior Research Fellowship (NET-CSIR/JRF-2014)

Awarded Excellence of Merit Certificate in the M.S. (Chemistry) for best academic position (2015) at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali

Awarded two-year Fellowship for Post-graduation study by Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, New Delhi

Selection in Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM), Indian Institutes of Technology, India (2013)

Life member of International Liquid Crystal Society (Reference no. ILCS_12913)

Life member of Indian Liquid Crystal Society (Registration No. 219/92-93 and Membership No. L-479) 

Conference Presentations and Workshops

Oral Presentation in Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Liquid Crystals held at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH, United States on June 25 - 30, 2023

Poster Presentation in Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors held at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, United States on June 18 - 23, 2023

Oral Presentation in Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors held at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, United States on June 17 - 18, 2023

Oral Presentation in North American Supramolecular Chemistry  (NASC-2022) meeting, 2022, held at Tulane and Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on December 19-20, 2022

Invited Talk in International Conference on Liquid Crystals, Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Nanosystems (ICLCPN 2019), 13-15 December 2019, at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India: Influence of Horizontal Alignment in Efficient Charge Transport of Discotic Liquid Crystals (cancelled due to Covid)

Oral Presentation in 26th National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC-2019), October 21-23, 2019 at Chitkara University, Punjab, India: Room Temperature Columnar Liquid Crystals as An Efficient Pure Deep-Blue Emitter in OLEDs

Poster Presentation in Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS-2018) December 6-8, 2018, at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India: Heptazine Based Columnar Mesogens as Blue Emitter in OLEDs

Poster Presentation in 27th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC 2018) on July 22-27, 2018 at International Conference Centre, Kyoto, Japan: Novel electron-deficient Columnar Mesogens as Blue Emitter in OLEDs

Attended 7 days Soft and Active Matter Workshop at University of Hyderabad, fully funded by UGC-Networking Resource Centre (NRC) on 15 February, 2018 

Poster Presentation in ACS ON CAMPUS, February 9, 2018 at IISER Mohali, India: Discotic Liquid Crystals as Efficient Blue Emitter in OLEDs

Poster Presentation in 24th National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC-2017), October 11-13, 2017 at IISER Mohali, India: Mesomorphism in a New Class of Heptazine-Based Discotic Liquid Crystals

Oral Presentation in 23rd National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC-2016), December 7- 9, 2016 at Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad, India: Development of Perylene Based Luminescent Discotic Liquid Crystals

Poster Presentation in 22th National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC-2015), December 21-23, 2015 at DIT University, Dehradun, India: Mesomorphism in truxene based liquid crystals