Dr. Rangana Banerjee Chaudhuri

Work Experience

Marie Curie Mentor – MCAA Pilot Mentoring Programme (“Careers in the Public Sector”) in Marie Curie Alumni Association, Jun, 2025 - Present

Website : MCAA

Key Responsibilities:-

Provided one-on-one guidance to early-career researchers exploring career pathways in public sector research institutions, national labs, and academia
Shared insights on grant writing, transitioning from academia to government-funded roles, and balancing research with leadership responsibilities in European public-sector R&D environments

Research Project Leader & Scientist in Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany, Jan, 2024 - Present

Main Project involved with: QU-PIC (Quantum Universal Photonic Integrated circuit Platform)

Funding Agency: European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme

Key Responsibilities:-

Managing EU Project of a total fund amount of € 5 947 868,00 as a Project Leader with 12 EU participating partners consisting of Industries and Academia;oversee budget, KPI tracking, milestone delivery, and stakeholder reporting.
Building complete lab set up for Integrated and Nanophotonic Optical Active Elements Characterization; Preapare Test plans for Characterization of PICs.; Characterization of Photonic active elements required for Optical clocks, Ion traps, Quantum Computer & Quantum Sensing applications
Overseeing the full project lifecycle: technical planning, budgeting, milestone tracking, team management, and reporting
Developing innovation readiness roadmaps, IP managing
Dissemination and communication of the project outputs and other outreach activities
Co-Supervise Ph.D students
Project proposal writing

Research Fellow in Dublin City University, Ireland, Oct, 2023 - Dec, 2023

Main Project involved with: Integrated Photonic Device Characterisation for data centre, access and metropolitan networks

Funding Agency: Science Foundation Ireland

Industrial Partner: Pilot Photonics, Ireland

Key Responsibilities:-

Use of optical frequency combs for the development of spectrally efficient optical communications systems for high capacity wireless networks.
Use of optical frequency combs with advanced modulation formats for high capacity optical/wireless systems
Design of free space optics-based transceiver for THz application.

Marie Curie co-fund Sparkle Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dublin City University, Ireland, Oct, 2021 - Sept, 2023

Project: EFFORT (Reconfigurable Fiber to Wireless Transceiver Design)

Funding Agency: Horizon 2020 European Commission

Industrial Secondment: Pilot Photonics Ltd., Ireland

Key Responsibilities:-

Design, experimental implementation and testing of optical frequency comb sources developed using external optical modulation, direct modulation, gain-switching and fiber laser.
Use a laser optical frequency comb to design and experimentally implement a practical photonic based RF transceiver useful for next generation wireless technologies, optical communication and RADAR.
Investigate various nonlinear optical phenomenon like Self phase modulation, Cross phase modulation, Rayleigh scattering, Brillouin scattering, etc.
Bidirectional sub-THz frequency transceiver design using external optical modulation.
Supervision of undergraduate, internship and Ph.D. students. The works culminated to different international peer reviewed conferences and peer reviewed journal.
Laboratory lessons supervision in optical communication course for undergraduate students.
Project management, financial management, reports and papers writing.
Time management of the relevant work package and meeting necessary deadlines.

Key Responsibilities for Secondment with Pilot Photonics Ltd.:-

Design, experimental implementation and testing of optical frequency comb sources required for optical communication applications.

Research Scientist at Lightmotif Automation Sensors and Systems Pvt. Ltd (Now Sasmos Het Technologies Ltd.), India , Mar, 2020 - Apr, 2021

Key Responsibilities:-

Design, implement and testing of photonics based high frequency RF transceiver using external optical modulation and low frequency RF transceiver using direct modulation.
Design MATLAB coding based standalone application for RF generation.
Project Management: Define the product objectives and design the products in cost effective manner. Set appropriate plans to implement the products in time. Test the products and prepare test reports for the finished products.
Design, implement and testing of photonics based high and low frequency RF generation, transmission, reception and also designing of proper impedance matching circuits for the products.
Design and implementation of electronic circuits for RF harmonic suppression and RF filter design for spurious elimination which are generated using photonic techniques.
Design, implement and testing of RF amplifier based driver boards required for optical transceivers.
Team handling and supervising of employees

Trainer in PLC and HMI domain at Institute of Industrial Automation and Embedded System, India, Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2019

Key Responsibilities:-

Organize and present seminars to different colleges and companies for business development in the automation field.
Provide trainings on PLC and HMI.
Team handling and supervising of employees.

College Lecturer in Shree Agrasain College, Liluah, University of Calcutta, India, Feb. 2011 – Jun. 2011

Key Responsibilities:-

Teaching electronics course related to analog semiconductor devices, microcontrollers and digital electronics to undergraduate(Bachelor of Science i.e. B.Sc. in Computer Science Honours) students.
Laboratory lessons for undergraduate students in analog electronics, digital electronics and microcontroller

Supervisor in Embedded Systems at Centre for Applied Engineering & Research, India, Jul. 2010 – Jul. 2011

Key Responsibilities:-