Associate Professor
B. Sc.(Physics), Vidyasagar College, University of Calcutta, India, 1999
M. Sc.(Physics), Banaras Hindu University, India, 2001
Ph. D, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India, 2007
(Thesis advisors: Prof. Umesh V Waghmare and Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan )
B. Sc.: Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2012
M. Sc.: ICTS-TIFR, 2018
Year of Joining: 2019
Department: Physics
Area of Research: Thermoelectrics
B. Sc.: Rajarshi Shahu Mahavidyalaya, 2017.
M. Sc.: S P Pune University, 2019
Year of Joining: 2021
Department: Chemistry
Area of Research: Catalysis
PhD students:
(A) From IISER
Dr. Sarika Lohkna, PhD 2025.
Dr. Ankit Kumar (jointly with Prof. Surjeet Singh), PhD 2025 (Postdoc at University of Warwick).
Dr. Vineet Kr. Pandey, PhD 2023.
Dr. Unmesh Mondal, PhD 2023.
Dr. Aswathi Mohan, PhD 2023 (Postdoc at IIT Kanpur).
Dr. Kanika Kohli, PhD 2022.
Dr. Gautam Sharma, PhD 2022 (Postdoc at Khalifa University).
Dr. Rayan Chakraborty (jointly with Dr. Angshuman Nag), PhD 2022.
Dr. Niharika Joshi, PhD 2020 (Postdoc at NCL, India).
Dr. Nandha Kumar, PhD 2019 (Brain Pool Fellow, Yonsei University, South Korea ).
Dr. Subrahmanyam Sappati, PhD 2019 (Tenure track faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology).
Dr. Indu Kaul, PhD 2017.
(B) Outside IISER
Dr. Prakash Khatri (jointly with Prof. Narayan Adhikari) Tribhuvan University, Nepal, PhD 2025.
Undergraduate students:
(A) From IISER
Rapti Pal, BSMS 2023 (Pursuing PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA for PhD.)
Gopidi Harshan Reddy, BSMS 2022 (Presently pursuing PhD. at Ensemble3 Centre of Excellence, Poland)
Mohamed Hashim K, BSMS 2021.
Raghavendra Meena, BSMS 2020 (Presently pursuing PhD. at Wageningen University, Netherlands).
Amit Sahu, BSMS 2018 (Presently pursuing PhD at IFPN, France).
Aseem Rajan Kshirsagar, Project student, IISER BS-MS (Presently pursuing PhD at Grenoble INP).
C Gaurav, BS-MS Student.
(B) Outside IISER
Mihir Date, College of Engineering, Pune (Presently pursuing PhD at MPI-Halle, Germany).
Manaswita Kar, M. Sc. Symbiosis International University, Pune (Presently Post Doc at University of Southampton, UK).
Postdocs:
Dr. Nishamol Kuriakose, April 2019 - December 2020. Presently in Israel.
Dr. Krishnakanta Mondal, Post-doc, 2017-2018. Presently in Punjab University as an Inspire Faculty.
Dr. Rahul Hardikar, Post-doc, 2016-2018. Presently working in TCS.
Dr. Saikat Chatterjee, former Post-doc in the group. Presently working as an Assistant Professor at North Bengal St. Xavier's College, Jalpaiguri.