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I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, where I am building a new research group in photoelectrocatalysis and solar fuels. The group's focus will be on developing materials and operando spectroelectrochemical methods to drive sustainable energy conversion, with planned directions in solar hydrogen generation, CO2 utilisation, water remediation, and sustainable nitrogen recovery. As a young group starting from the ground up, we have the rare opportunity to shape our questions, tools, and culture together and I am looking for curious, motivated minds who want to build something ambitious from day one.

Prior to joining the University of Hyderabad, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, and Imperial College London, where my research centred on the spectroelectrochemistry of electrocatalytic systems for sustainable energy conversion. I received my Ph.D. in Chemistry in September 2019 from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India. Following my doctoral studies, I conducted postdoctoral research at Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, Republic of Korea (November 2019 – July 2022), working on advanced functional materials for energy and optoelectronic applications. I subsequently joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad as a Guest Researcher (May 2023 – August 2023), further strengthening my expertise in photocatalysis and materials chemistry. I was later selected as a Brain Pool Fellow at the Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), Naju, Republic of Korea, and was awarded a prestigious individual research grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea in 2022.

Across my career, my research has spanned the rational design of next-generation materials for solar energy conversion and sustainable chemical production from halide perovskite-based wide-bandgap solar cells and all-perovskite tandem devices, to visible-light-driven photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical systems for solar fuel generation, to optoelectronic and sensing devices such as photodetectors and toxic gas sensors. 

If you are a student excited by clean-energy chemistry and eager to help lay the foundations of a new lab, I would love to hear from you. I invite you to explore my research portfolio and reach out to learn more about ongoing and upcoming opportunities.