2025 - till date Program Director - ANRF-PAIR (phase I)
2025 - till date Professor and Director - Manipal Institute of Applied Physics, MAHE, Karnataka, India - 576 104
2022 - 2025 Professor and Head, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, MAHE, Karnataka, India - 576 104
2018 - till date Professor, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, MAHE, Karnataka, India - 576 104
2016 - till date Coordinator, Centre for Applied Nanosciences, MAHE, Karnataka, India - 576 104
2017-2019 Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Applied Nanosciences, MAHE, Karnataka, India - 576 104
2012-2017 Associate Professor, Dept. of Atomic and Molecular Physics, MAHE,, Karnataka, India - 576 104
2009-2012 Scientist, Centre for Smart Interfaces, DFG Cluster of Excellence, TU Darmstadt, Germany
2007-2009 Scientist, Inst. of Nano and Microprocess Technology, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
2006-2007 Assistant Professor, Centre for Laser Spectroscopy, Manipal University, Karnataka, India - 576 104
2005-2006 KU Leuven Fellow, Catholicate University of Leuven, Beligum
2004 Ph.D in Photonics from International School of Photonics, CUSAT, India
2002-2004 CSIR-SRF, International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Technology, Cochin, India - 682 022
2000-2002 CSIR-JRF, International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Technology, Cochin, India - 682 022