About Me

Current Position

Postdoctoral researcher (April 2024 - till date)

Research group of Prof. David O. Scanlon

School of Chemistry

University of Birmingham

Edgbaston

Birmingham B15 2TT

United Kingdom

Previous Experiences

Postdoctoral researcher (August 2023 - March 2024)

Research group of Prof. Biswarup Pathak

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Indore, M.P. - 453552

India

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Ph. D. (July 2018- Sep 2023)

Department of Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Indore, M.P. - 453552

India

Supervisor: Prof. Biswarup Pathak

Thesis: Insights into Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation and Electrode in Dual Ion Battery (link)

Masters (Integrated M. Sc.) (August 2012- July 2017)

Department of Chemical Sciences

Tezpur University

Tezpur, Assam - 784028

India

M.Sc. Project Supervisor: Prof. Ashwini K. Phukan

M.Sc. Project:  Donor-Acceptor Complexes Between Transition Metal and Boron: A Theoretical Study

Computational skills

• First principles density functional theory

• Ab initio Molecular Dynamics

• Machine Learning 

Awards

• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE 2018, GATE 2017)

• Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship and awarded CSIR JRF fellowship, December 2017

• Qualified State Level Eligibility Test (SLET-N.E Region) for lectureship in NE India, 2017

• Qualified IIT-Joint Admission Test for Masters (IIT-JAM 2015)

• Qualified All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE 2012)

Conferences

• 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Seattle, Washington, US, 2025 (Oral presentation)

• Faraday Institution Conference, Newcastle, UK, 2024 (Participation)

• 24th International Conference on Solid State Ionics, London, UK, 2024 (Participation)

• European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2023 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, 2023 (Poster presentation)

• In-house Chemistry Symposium, Department of Chemistry, IIT Indore, India, 2023 (Oral presentation)

• Theoretical Chemistry Symposium (TCS-2021) IISER Kolkata, India, 2021 (Poster presentation)

• Short term course on “Computationally Designing of Materials for Materials Genome”, Department of Chemistry, IIT Indore, India, 2021 (Participation)

• TEQIP program on “Molecular Modelling of Materials and Biological Macromolecules”, Department of Chemistry, NIT Rourkela, India, 2020 (Participation)

• Workshop on Recent Advances in Energy Materials (RAEM 2020), CHARUSAT, Gujarat, India, 2020 (Participation)

• International Conference on Emerging Trends in Chemistry, IIT Indore, India, 2019 (Poster presentation)

• In-house Chemistry Symposium, Department of Chemistry, IIT Indore, India, 2019 (Poster presentation)

• Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences, Tezpur University, India, 2016 (Participation)

• Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Magnetic and Optical Properties of Molecular Materials: Principles and Applications, Tezpur University, India, 2016 (Participation)

• Science Academies Lecture Workshop on Modern Trends in Chemistry, Tezpur University, India, 2013 (Participation)

Invited Talks

• World Mole Day Celebration, Department of Chemistry, Dhakuakhana College, Assam, India, 2024.

Reviewer

• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces