Undergraduate Students

DIVYA YADAV

Past Members

Postdocs

• Abhisek Bandypadhyay

Abhisek is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate (EPSRC), ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, STFC RAL, United Kingdom 

PhD students

• Nashra Pistawala

Nashra joined the Quantum Materials Lab in the year 2019. She defended her PhD thesis in April 2025. She is on her way to become a Research Associate in the physics department at the University of Warwick. 

• Ankit Kumar

Ankit was a Prime Minister Research Fellow from 2019 to 2024. He defended his PhD thesis in April 2025. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Warwick. 

• Navita Jakhar

Navita defended her PhD in the year 2023. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria in the group of Prof. Maria Ibáñez

• Dibyata Raut

Dibyata completed her PhD in the year 2023. She joined the group of Prof. Stephen D. Wilson at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral fellow. 

• Kumar Saurabh

Saurabh completed his PhD in the year 2022. After a year-long postdoc stint at JNCASR, Saurabh joined the CUMI Minerals, R&D group as a research scientist.

• Prachi Telang

Prachi joined IISER Pune as iPhD student. She worked on the pyrochlore iridates. She defended her thesis in the year 2020, and is currently a Humboldt fellow at the University of Augsburg in the group of Prof. Dr. Philipp Gegantwart. 

• Rabindranath Bag

Rabindranath joined IISER Pune as PhD student. He worked on the crystal growth of hybrid chain/ladder compounds and studying their magnetic properties and sliding motion. He defended his thesis in the year 2018, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Duke University, USA in the group of Prof. Sara Haravifard.

• Koushik Karmakar

Koushik studied the effect of non-magnetic and magnetic disorder in Quantum spin 1/2 chains. He defended his PhD thesis in the year 2016. Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow in the group (Quantum magnetism and quantum phase transitions) of Prof. Radu Coldea at Oxford University

• Rohit Kumar

(Co-guided by Dr. Sunil Nair)

Rohit worked on crystal growth and magnetotransport in 122 family of iron based superconductors. He defended his thesis in the year 2018. Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Zhejiang University.

Undergraduate / JRF Students

• Arindam Ghara (May 2024) Strange Metal Behavior in Electron Doped Cuprates Superconductor   

Current position: PhD @ Max Planck Institute (CPfS) Dresden

• Vishak (May 2024) Study of Thermoelectric Behavior of some Double and Triple half-Heuslerss   

Current position: PhD @ Leibniz Institute (IFW) Dresden

• Lalith K Gurram (May 2023) Effect of Doping in Defective Half-Heusler Nb0.8CoSb

Current position: PhD @Linköping University

• Rupesh Kumar (May 2023) Investigation of Thermoelectric Properties of Ruthantes Pyrochlore and A new Si-based High Entropy Pyrochlore

• Appu S (December 2021), Exploring ternary molybdenum nitrides as candidate quantum magnets for hosting skyrmions   

Subsequent position: PhD @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

• Anupam Singh (Completed MS in May 2021)

• Nupur Sontakkey (May 2020) Studying half-Heusler-based materials for thermoelectric application   

Subsequent position: PhD @ Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology)

• Dubbaku Sri Pragna (May 2020), Evolution of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties upon Mg-doping in BaIrO3  

Subsequent position: Preparing for Civil Services

• Haritha S Rajeev (May 2019), Synthesis and Physical Characterization of Pyrochlore Oxides 

Subsequent position: PhD @ Department of Physics, University of Virginia (Under Prof. Seunghun Lee) 

• Sanchayeta Mudi (May 2019), Investigation of some metallic trilayer nickelates analogous to high Tc cuprates 

Subsequent position: PhD @ Department of Physics, University of Pittsburg (Under Prof. Sergy Frolov) 

• Prakash Kumar (May 2019), Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of some sulfides 

Subsequent position: preparing for civil services

• Harjot Kumar (May 2019), Synthesis of nanocomposites of silica-gold core-shell nanoparticles and gold nanowires with conducting polymers (jointly with Prof. Sulbha Kulkarni)

Subsequent position: IIM Indore

• Kshiti Mishra (May 2018) IISER BS-MS, Bi-doped pyrochlore iridates

Subsequent position: PhD student at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Giri Mani (2015 - 2017), JRF on a SERB project. Subsequently joined Royal Holloway University of London  UK, Quantum Matter Group, Department of Physics

• Pravu Prasad Dhal IISER BS-MS, Synthesis and magnetic properties of (La, Ca)CoO3-x

Subsequent position: MBA at Xavier Institute of Management

• Lakshmi Bhaskaran University of Pune (May 2011)

Subsequent position: PhD @ Florida State University

• Sharada. G University of Pune (May 2012)

 Subsequent position: PhD @ Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under Prof. D. D. Sarma

• Amartya Singh IISER BS-MS (2011) Crystal growth and heat conduction studies in quantum spin chains  

Subsequent position: PhD @ Department of Physics, Rutgers University 

• Harleen Kaur SRM University, Chennai (2014) 

Subsequent position: