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