Curriculum Vitae

Current Position:

  • Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Educational Qualifications:

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.): From the School of Basic Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT Mandi), Kamand, Himachal Pradesh.


  • Master of Technology (M.Tech.): In Computational and System Biology, from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.

Thesis work: Density of States Simulation for Protein System: Study of W.W. Domain.


  • Master of Science (M.Sc.): In Physics, From D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, U.P.


  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.): In Physics, Mathematics, Electronics, From D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, U.P.

Expertise and skills:

Microscops and optical Setup design: Design and building new generation microscope for TIRF, Confocal, Superresolution and single molecule imaging based biomedical applications.

Microscopy: Confocal and TIRF Microscopy, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Superresolution Microscopy including STORM, SRRF, and SOFI. Single-particle tracking and blinking study. Experience in building a two-color Objective TIRF microscope for single-molecule imaging and smFRET measurements.

Synthesis: Nanomaterials including, Carbon dots, Quantum dots, Gold nanoparticles, Magnetic nanoparticles.

Characterizations: Study state photoluminescence (Fluorescence, Absorption, Excitation) Spectroscopy, Time resolve Spectroscopy (Lifetime, FLIM, Anisotropy, TRES, TRENES), Raman Spectroscopy (Confocal Raman, PL, Annealing PL, and Raman), Mass Spectroscopy, NMR Spectroscopy, FTIR, CD spectroscopy. TGA, XRD, TEM, SEM.

Cellular study: Cell culture, Fixed cells, and Live Cell experiments.

Analysis and Computation: Computer programming (Matlab, C, Perl, R), Simulations (Monte Carlo), Experience of working on High-Performance Computing (HPC).

Awards and Accolades:

  • Selected for the prestigious "Excellence Fellowship Program for International Postdoctoral Researchers 2021-2022" by the honourable Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

  • National award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in the area of Carbon Materials by honourable Indian National Young association of Science (INYAS), February 2021.

  • Best Poster award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) in "25th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry “CRSI-NSC 25”, July 19-21, 2019, IIT Kanpur India.

  • Best Poster award in “First Indian Material Conclave and 30th Annual General Meeting of MRSI-2019”, February 12-15, 2019, Bengaluru India.

  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in Physics.

  • Qualified for Senior Research fellowship (SRF) from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India (GOI).

  • Qualified National level exams including,: JNU entrance exam, IISC entrance exam, and IITs entrance exams.

Work Experience:

  • Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel under Europian Research Council (ERC) Project (2020-continue).

  • Senior Research Fellow under Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (2017-2020).

  • Visiting Staff Scientist at University of Gottingen, Germany (2017).

  • Junior Research Fellow under the Department of Biotechnology sponsored research project (2014-2016).

  • Assistant Professor (Physics) in Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India (2013-2014).

  • M. Tech fellow under Department of Biotechnology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBB), School of Computational and Integrative Sciences (SCIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2010-2013).

Publication:

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Seminar and Conferences:

In India

1. Poster Presentation in “25th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, CRSI-NSC 25”, IIT Kanpur, India, July 19-21, 2019.

Presentation title” Fallacy and the Future of Carbon Nano Dots”.

Best Poster award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) .

2. Poster Presentation in “First Indian Material Conclave and 30th Annual General Meeting of MRSI-2019”, IISc Bengaluru, India, February, 12-15, 2019.

Presentation title” Fluorescent and Specific Nanodots for Nanoscopy”.

Best poster award from Material Research Society of India (MRSI).

3. Poster Presentation in “National workshop on Fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy – FCS-2018”, JNU New Delhi, India, November 12-17, 2018.

Presentation title “Carbogenic Fluorescent Nanomaterials for Nanoscopy”.

4. Oral talk in Annual research fair Anusandhan IIT Mandi, April 2018.

Presentation title “Advanced Light Microscopy Techniques: An Opportunity for Engineers, Chemists and Biologists”.

5. Poster Presentation in “IACS conference on Electronic Structure, Spectroscopy and Dynamics (IACS-CESSD-2018)”, IACS Kolkata, India, February 22-25, 2018.

Presentation title “Biocompatible Carbon Dot as a Fluorescent Probe for STORM Nanoscopy”.

6. Poster presentation in Annual research fair Anusandhan, IIT Mandi, April 2017.

7. Poster Presentation in “International Conference on Energy, Environment and Health-2016”, IIT Rurkee, India, March 4-6, 2016.

Presentation title “Photoswitchable Carbon-Dots for Single Molecule Blinking Microscopy”.

8. Poster Presentation in “International Conference: Optics within Life Science – OWLS-2016”, TIFR Mumbai, India, March 16-19, 2016.

Presentation title “A recent update on the photoluminescence origin of carbon dots and its application in single molecule blinking microscopy”.

9. Poster Presentation in “National workshop on Fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy – FCS-2016”, TIFR Mumbai, India, March 13-15, 2016.

Presentation title “The photoluminescence origin of carbon dots and its application in single molecule blinking microscopy”

10. Poster presentation in Annual research fair-Anusandhan, IIT Mandi, India, April 2016.

11. AMRC Symposium, IIT Mandi, India, May 2015.

12. Poster Presentation in conference “Advance Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Dynamics, IACS-2014” Kolkata, IACS Kolkata, India, December 12-14, 2014.

Presentation title “Nanoparticles at the Air-Water Interface”


Outside India

1. Oral talk in the Conference "Advance in Functional Materials (AFM-2017) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America" (USA). August 14-17, 2017.

Presentation title "Fluorescent carbon nanodots for Single Molecule Imaging"


Hobbies:

Painting, Photography, Running and Exercise, Playing Badminton, Cooking, Reading , Developing computer codes, Talking to people, Discussion about Mythology and spirituality.


Extracurricular activities:

  • Member of Research Council and Research Forum of IIT Mandi (2018-2019).

  • Member and Coordinator of organizing committee of the HoT Talks (High on Technology Talks) IIT Mandi (2018-2019).