Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Atikur Rahman

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)-Pune

Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411008, India.

Phone: +91 (20) 2590 8424

About Me

Post Doc. Fellows

Priya Kaith

Postdoc (2026)

PhD (Physics), IIT Jammu.

Project: Neuromorphic Computing on TMD hybrid heterostructures.

H. L. Pradeep

Postdoc (2024)

PhD (Physics), Indian Institute of Science.

Project: Optoelectronic properties of perovskite-TMD hybrid heterostructures.

PhD Students

Sagnik Chatterjee

iPhD student (2019), PMRF Fellow.

B.Sc (Physics), University of Calcutta.

Project: Exploring optoelectronic properties of 2D materials by tuning interactions and disorder.

Sudipta Majumder

PhD student (2020)

M.Sc (Physics), University of Kalyani, West Bengal

Project: Phase transition in 2D materials.

Meghasree Basu

PhD Student (2022)

M.Sc (Physics), West Bengal State University, WB

Project: Bulk photovoltaic effect in 2D materials and their heterostructures

Avinash Mahapatra

PhD Student (2022)

M.Sc (Physics), Guru Ghasidas Central University, Chhattisgarh.

Project: Optoelectronic properties of 2D Bismuth Oxychalcogenides.

Sweta Verma

iPhD student (2022)

B.Sc (Physics), Delhi University, Delhi

Project: Optical properties of Twisted heterostructures.

Pawan Kumar Gupta

PhD student (2023)

M.Sc (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Project: Electronic transport properties of van der Waals Hetero-structures.

Deepak Sharma

iPhD student (2023)

B.Sc (Physics), Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Haryana

Project: Photo Hall effect in 2D materials

Swapneswar Bisoi

PhD student (2024)

M.Sc (Physics), MSCB University, Odisha

Project: Hybrid Nanostructure based Neuromorphic and Optoelectronic devices

Saqlain Mushtaq

PhD student (2024)

M.Sc (Physics), Aligarh Muslim University, UP

Project: Optoelectronic properties of 2D heterostructures.

Raima Saha

PhD student (2025)

M.Sc (Physics), NIT, Rourkela, Odisha

Project: Electronic transport properties of 2D heterostructures.

Priyanshi Jain

PhD student (2026)

M.Sc (Physics), MNIT, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Project: Defect Engineering in 2D TMDs.

Anirban Majee

PhD student (2026)

M.Sc (Physics), Sidho Kanho Birsha University, WB

Project: Properties of Lateral 2D heterostructures.

MS Thesis Students

Ankit Chahar

MS QT Thesis (2026)

MS (QT) Student, IISER Pune.

Project: Designing Microwave Antennas for NV-Centre Magnetometry

Harini Karthikeyan

BS Project (2026)

BS-MS (Physics), IISER Pune.

Project: Cross-correlation noise spectroscopy

Alumni

PhD Scholars (Alumni)

Manisha Rajput (PhD) 2026

(Post Doc. Researcher at Tampere University, Finland)

Suraj Lakhchaura (PhD) 2025

(Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Kanpur, India)

Tamaghna Chowdhury (iPhD) 2024

(Postdoc at CNRS IPCMS and ISIS, Strasbourg, France)

Gokul MA (PhD), 2023

(Process Engineer, Lam Research)

Vrinda Narayanan (PhD), 2023

(Principal Engineer, Global Foundries)

Post Doc. (Alumni)

3. Sumaiya Parveen (postdoc), IIT Guwahati, 2023

2. Divya Nechiyil (postdoc), IIT Madras, 2022

1. Aniruddha Basu (NPDF postdoc) IISER Pune, 2017

MS Thesis Students (Alumni)

4. Ninad Salgaonkar (MS thesis) 2026 (PhD Student at IST, Austria)

3. Rohan Thangaraj (MS thesis) 2024 (Associate Solution Advisor at Deloitte )

2. Ravi Prakash Rao (MS thesis) 2023 (PhD Student at IIT Bombay)

1. Ankit Kumar (MS thesis student), IISER Pune, 2017 (PhD student at Data Science Dept., IISER Pune)

Summer/Project Students (Alumni)

5. Wadikur Rahman (project student), IISER Pune.

4. Clément Poulet, (summer student) University of Dijon, France, 2019

3. Priyanka Yadav (summer student), IIT Ropar, 2018

2. Jincy Joseph (summer student), SH College, Kerala, 2018

1. Diana She (summer student), UPMC, Paris, France, 2018

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