Education

Jan 2013 - Jan 2018:     PhD (Chemical Sciences), IISER Mohali, Punjab, India

Aug 2010 - Jul 2012:     MSc (Chemistry), University of Delhi, India

Aug 2006 - Jul 2009:     BSc (Life Sciences), University of Delhi, India

Professional Experience

Feb 2025 - Present:        Assistant Professor (Chemistry), IIT Jodhpur, India

Nov 2021 - Feb 2025:     Ramanujan Fellow (Chemistry), IIT Ropar, India

Oct 2020 - Oct 2021:      Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Basic Sciences, South Korea

Feb 2018 - Aug 2020:     Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Tokyo, Japan 

Awards and Recognition

• International Travel Scheme (ITS) Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India (2024)

• Women Involvement in Science and Engineering Research (WISER) Grant from Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (2023) 

• JLCS Award from the Japanese Liquid Crystal Society (2023)

• Short Research Trip to France from Institut français India, Embassy of France in India (2022)

• Ramanujan Fellowship Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India (2021)

• IUCr Young Scientist Award from International Union of Crystallography (2016)

• International Travel Scheme (ITS) Grant from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India (2016)

• Junior and Senior Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India (2013 -2018)

• CSIR-UGC Net from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (2012)

• Merit Certificate from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi (2009)

Selected Conference Presentations

• Invited Talk, ‘Development of Visible-light Responsive Liquid Crystals as Efficient Solid-state Solar Thermal Fuels’ International Conference on Advanced Materials for Sustainable Innovation 2024, Delhi, India.

• Contributed Talk, ‘Visible-Light Responsive Liquid Crystals as Efficient Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels’ Functional Molecular Photoswitches for Energy Storage and Beyond 2024, Barcelona, Spain.

• Poster, ‘Development of Photoswitchable Anisotropic Hydrogels for Application in Nanorobotics’ IUMRS-ICA 2021, Jeju Island, South Korea. 

• Poster, ‘Development of 2D Nanoporous Water Treatment Membranes from Polymerizable Liquid-Crystalline Nanostructured Materials’ MANA International Symposium 2021, Japan (Online meeting).

• Oral, ‘Development of Water Treatment Membranes from Polymerizable Liquid-crystalline Nanostructured Materials’ The 16th Pacific Polymer Conference 2019, Singapore.

• Oral, ‘Nanoporous Water Treatment Membranes Based on Polymerizable Columnar Liquid Crystals’ 2nd G'L'owing Polymer Symposium in KANTO 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

• Oral, ‘Development of Nanoporous Water Treatment Membranes from Polymerizable Columnar Liquid Crystals’ 29th Annual Meeting of MRS-J 2019, Yokohama, Japan.

• Oral, ‘Development of Water Treatment Membranes with Tuned Nanopore Sizes from Polymerizable Columnar Liquid Crystals’ 68th Annual Meeting of Society of Polymer Science Japan 2019, Osaka, Japan.

• Poster, ‘Development of Water Treatment Membranes from Polymerizable Photocleavable Columnar Liquid Crystals’ 23rd Symposium on Liquid Crystal Chemistry 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

• Poster, ‘New Design Strategies towards the Synthesis of Room Temperature Discotic Nematic Liquid Crystals’ 27th International Liquid Crystal Conference 2018, Kyoto, Japan.

• Oral, ‘A new strategy towards the synthesis of room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystals’ Inter IISER Chemistry Meet 2017, Madhya Pradesh, India.

• Poster, ‘Triphenylene-Based Room-Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystals: A New Class of Blue Light-Emitting Materials with Long-Range Columnar Self Assembly’ 4th International Soft Matter Conference 2016, Grenoble, France.

• Poster, ‘Multialkynylbenzene-bridged Triphenylene-based Room Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystals: New Blue Light-emitting Materials with Long Range Columnar Self-assembly’ 26th International Liquid Crystal Conference 2016, Ohio, USA.