(A.) Current work profile (Postdoctoral Researcher: working from November 2024)

Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Research)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Elmers

Institute: Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenburg University, Mainz

Research Field: Study of competing interaction of spin with charge and lattice using Photoemission techniques momentum microscope and X-ray Photoelectron Diffraction

(B.) Postdoctoral Research (September 2021 – September 2024)

Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Akadmischer Rat. Auf. Zeit (Research and teaching)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sander van Smaalen

Institute: Laboratory of Crystallography, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Research Field: Incommensurately modulated charge density wave analysis in various intermetallic materials using single crystal X-ray crystallography using synchrotron radiation source.

(C.) Ph.D. Research profile (Sept 2014 - August 2021)

Topic: Studies on structural, physical and magnetic phase transition in rare earth manganites (TbMnO3 and Tb1-xMxMnO3, where M= Sr2+, Pr3+) and spinel aluminates.

Supervisor: Prof. Mohammad Abu Shaz

Institute: Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Research Field: Crystallography of rare earth multiferroic manganites and aluminate spinels using Neutron diffraction, X-ray diffraction and electron diffraction.   

• Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) QM AccelNet program postdoctoral grant 2026-27 funded by US National Science Foundation (NSF), which will support a research visit at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) to work with Prof. Stephen Wilson (Febraury 2027 - May 2027). 

• Synchrotron Beamtime projects at German Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg (as Principal Investigator)

- P24 beamline for Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction (Chemical Crystallography) – 11-19 January 2026

- P22 beamline for Hard X-ray momentum microscopy (Photoelectron Spectroscopy) – 16-22 April 2026

- P24 beamline for Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction (Chemical Crystallography) - 21-25 August 2026

• Internal University research funding (Stufe-I) for “Emergent Charge and Magnetic order in quantum materials” from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. (Grant: 7000 Euro for a year-2026) 

• Rhien Main Universities (RMU) Initiative Fund for Research: Promotion of RMU networking in innovative projects for “Chiral Charge Density Wave in Kagome Metals”; in collaboration with Prof. Olena Fedchenko, Goethe University, Frankfurt. (May 2025). (Grant: 25,000 Euro for two years) 

• WiN-UBT Research Stay Grant 2024 by University of Bayreuth, Germany to visit University of Edinburgh, UK for carrying collaborative research with Prof. Andrew Huxley from 15 June to 30 June 2024. (Grant: 3,500 Euro) 

Award/ Fellowship

• International travel Award by CSIR, India and NSSI, India for attending the AOCNS-2019 conference, Taiwan.

• Senior Research Fellowship awarded by CSIR, India (2018-2021)

• Junior Research Fellowship awarded by UGC-DAE-CSR, Indore, India (2016-18)

• UGC Research Fellowship, India (2014-16)

• Regular user of German Synchrotron DESY, Germany

• Elected member of Institute of Physics, UK (Since 2024)

• Member of European Crystallographic Association (Since 2022)

• Member of German Crystallographic Association (Since 2022)

• Lifetime Membership of “Neutron Scattering Society of India” (Membership No. 200)

• Lifetime Membership of “Electron Microscopy Society of India” (Membership No. LM-1218)