Appointment / Research experiences

• Professor (Scientist-F):      Jan 2024 onwards,  Institute of Nano Science and Technology,  Mohali, India;

• Admission Coordinator (2022 - 2024) :  Institute of Nano Science and Technology,  Mohali, India

• Associate Professor (Scientist-E, Jan 2020 -Dec 2023): Institute of Nano Science and Technology,  Mohali, India; 

• Assistant Professor (Scientist-D, June 2015 -Dec 2019): Institute of Nano Science and Technology,  Mohali, India; 

• Postdoctoral Research Associate (Jan 2013 - May 2015): University of Cambridge, United Kingdom,(PI: Prof. Jonathan R. Nitschke) 

• Post-Doctoral Fellow    (Jan 2010 - Dec 2012):  ETH-Zurich, Switzerland.(PI: Prof. François Diederich) 

• Research Associate (April - Dec 2009):   Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (PI: Prof. N.  Jayaraman)

                                                                         Awards/Fellowships/Recognition

2024           Adjunct faculty  of AcSIR 2024 onwards 

2023           Adjunct faculty  of IISER Mohali 2023 onwards 

2016            Ramanujan Fellowship awarded by DST-SERB-five year research grant (2016-2021) 

2016            Early Career Research (ECR) Award by SERB-three year research grant (2016-2019) 

2012           Two and half year’s post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by EPSRC at University of Cambridge 

2010           Three years post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by European Research Council (ERC) at ETH- Zurich. 

2005           Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by Council of Scientific Industrial Research.  

2003          Qualified in national eligibility test “CSIR-NET-2003”. Awarded Junior Researc Fellowship (JRF) by Council of Scientific Industrial Research. 

2002          Secured 95.5 percentile in national level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering “GATE-2002