Principal Investigator
He joined BITS Pilani after gaining extensive international research experience as a Postdoctoral Researcher at CEA Paris-Saclay in France and prior to that, at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he laid the foundation for his expertise in condensed matter physics and nanomaterials.
Email : manabendra.kuiri@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Phone : 040-66303978
Research Scholars
Sudev is a second year doctoral student specializing in the fabrication of 2D-TMD heterostructures and their characterization. Before joining BITS, he worked as a Junior research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from July 2024 to January 2025 in the Project titled "All-Inorganic Solid-State Integrated Halide Perovskite (X)-Ferroelectric-Oxide (O) Bulk Heterojunction (XOBHJ) Solar Cells"
He completed his Masters in Physics in 2024 from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
Tanmoy is a second year doctoral student specializing in the fabrication of 2D-TMD heterostructures and their characterization.
Shashank is a first year doctoral student specializing in electrical transport and optoelectronic properties of SnS heterostructures.
He completed his Masters in Physics in 2026 from Mangalore University. During MSc, he undertook a research internship at IISc Bangalore. During this time, he worked on the process optimization of conducting polymers for inkjet printers and fabrication of OLEDs.
FUNDING
Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)