Dr. Kavita Pandey
Kavita Pandey holds a Master’s (2011) and PhD degree (2016) in Physics, both obtained in India. During her PhD, she spent six months as a Newton Bhabha Fellow in Fraser Armstrong’s group at the University of Oxford. She then went on to work at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) to investigate the in-situ electrochemical processes inside a live battery using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). She then re-joined the Armstrong group in 2018 as an awardee of a SERB Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Indian Government. Her project in the Armstrong group brings together enzymology, catalysis and electronics, specifically by exploiting the power of impedance spectroscopy to investigate the internal charge-transfer properties of enzymes that enable them to be highly efficient and reversible electrocatalysts. Currently, she is exploring the use of electrochemical tools alongside developing and applying methods to fabricate advanced functional interfaces for energy storage, molecular detection, diagnostic, and imaging methodologies.
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Career Overview
Educations
Awards and Achievements
SERB International Research Experience award for the year 2022-2023
Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States-India Educational Foundation (Declined), 2019
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship Seal of Excellence Award, European Commission, 2018
Swiss Excellence Fellowship, Switzerland Govt. (Declined), 2018
Australian Centre For Advanced Photovoltaics Postdoctoral Fellowships, Australian Govt. (Declined), 2018
Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India, 2017
GSA-CHARUSAT Best Thesis Award (Gujarat Govt.), 2016
Newton Bhabha Fellowship to conduct research at University of Oxford, British Council (UK) and Department of Science and Technology (DST, India), 2016
JSPS HOPE fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan and Department of Science and Technology (DST, India), 2015
INSPIRE PhD fellowship, DST, India, 2012
Gold medal (MSc University topper), Gujarat University, 2011
Gold medal (BSc University topper), Gujarat University, 2009