Education

Current positions/employment and immediately previous position:

• Current position: Assistant Professor (Grade - I) at Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Electrical and Computational Sciences (SECs), Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IITBBS), Odisha, India. Website: https://secs.iitbbs.ac.in/index.php/raktim/

• Fellow: 1. Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation, 2. Raman Charpak Fellow (IFCPAR/CEFIPRA)

• Previous Research Group: About 5 years (4 years, 11 months, and 22 days) of postdoctoral experience at the Institute of Photonics (IOP), Leibniz Universitӓt Hannover, Germany or Technical University Hannover, Germany (part of TU9). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Kues (W3 Professor, ERC grant recipient, Marie-Curie Fellow), Website: https://www.hot.uni-hannover.de/en/research-groups/photonic-quantum-technologies/team. 

Academic positions/Employment:

1.  23 Dec. 2024 – Till date: Assistant professor (grade – I) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IIT Bhubaneswar), Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Electrical and Computational Sciences (SECs). 

2.   01 May 2023 – 22 Dec. 2024 (1 year, 7 months, 22 days): Senior postdoctoral scientist at the Institute of Photonics (IOP), Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Research topic: Integrated quantum photonics. Group leader: Prof. Dr. Michael Kues, Sponsored by: Flexible funds, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (independent project).                                                                                                             

 3.  01 May 2021 – 30 April 2023 (2 years): Alexander von Humboldt fellow (AvH) (guest scientist) at Institute of Photonics (IOP), Leibniz University Hannover. Research topic:                    Quantum neural network, Host/Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Kues, Sponsored by: Humboldt Foundation.                                                                                                                           

4.  14 Sept. 2022 – 26 Sept. 2022 (12 days): Visiting scientist at Univ. of Paris (Sorbonne Univ.) at the Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, Pierre and Marie Curie campus, Jussieu, Paris, France. Research topic: Application of non-maximally entangled quantum states in quantum key distributions. Host/Supervisor: Prof. Eleni Diamanti, Sponsored by: The Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation.

5.  01 Jan. 2020 – 30 April 2021 (1 year, 4 months): Postdoctoral researcher, at IOP, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Research topic: Quantum frequency comb.

Host/Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Kues, Sponsored by: German Govt, ERC grant, BMBF project.

6.  23 Oct. 2019 – 21 Nov. 2019 (1 month): Senior research fellow (SRF) at IIT Kharagpur. Project title: Establishment of Quantum Communication Link for Space Application,

Supervisor: Prof. Shailendra K. Varshney, Sponsored by: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

7. 12 Mar. 2018 – 08 Aug. 2018 (4 months 28 days): Raman Charpak Fellow (RCF): Visiting researcher at CNRS/C2N, Marcoussis Campus, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Paris, France, Research topic: Quantum guidonics, multipartite entanglement generation in waveguide array, experimental integrated quantum optics/computation, Host/Supervisor: Prof. Nadia Belabas Plougonven (Chercheuse), Sponsored by: IFCPAR/CEFIPRA

• Please email me at raktim.halder@gmail.com for my full CV.