Outreach Activites

1. “Emerging materials for Solar and Indoor Photovotaics,” FDP on “Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment,” organized by REVA University, Bangalore, September 6, 2023

2. “Ultrafast charge injection dynamics of Novel Porphyrin molecules based organic photovoltaics”  FDP on Molecular Materials and Engineering, NIT Warangal, March 25-30, 2023

3. “Optics and Spectroscopy of Energy Conversion Materials,” FDP on "Recent Advances in Material Sciences organized by Aurora Degree and PG College, Hyderabad, August 12, 2021.

4. “Novel materials for emerging next-generation photonic sources,” FDP workshop on “Materials for Photonic Applications” organized by Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, August 11, 2021.

5. Organized a 5 day AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy sponsored FDP workshop on Energy Conversion and Storage Devices (ECSD-21), during July1-5, 2021.

   1. 1. 1. • Role as Coordinator YouTube Link

            •  Resource Person. Delivered lectures on “Physics of Solar Cells, Link,” “” Technological Aspects of Different Generation of Solar Cells, Link,” “Characterization tools of Solar Cell Research, Link”

6. “Virtual Physics Lab” Faculty Development Program as part of TEQUIP-III Twinning Program, organized by Department of Physics, JNTU Ananthapur during September 7, 2020. YouTube Link-1 and September 8, 2020, YouTube Link-2

7. “Emerging trends in Organics Photovoltaics,” FDP workshop on “Frontiers in Material Science Research” organized by Department of Physics, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, Madanapalle during 24-August-2020. YouTube Link

8. “Ultrafast, Ultrashort and Ultraintense: Applications and Opportunities with Femtosecond lasers,” FDP Workshop on Recent Trends in Photonics organized by Malla Reddy Institute of Technology, Hyderabad during 5-August-2020. YouTube Link

9. “Literature Survey,” FDP workshop on Research Skill Development organized by GITAM college, Hyderabad during 24-June-2020. YouTube Link

10. “Virtual Laboratory Experiments demonstrations,” FDP Workshop on MHRD-intiated vlabs organized by Gitanjali Engineering college, Hyderabad during 10-June-2020. YouTube Link

11. As a resource person for TEQIP workshop on "Energy Conversion and Storage" Dec 4, 2019 and delivered the following lectures during the entire day: Physics of Solar Cells (90 minutes), First and Second generation solar cells (90 minutes), Organic Solar cells (90 minutes), Characterization of Solar Cells -Theory and Experiment (90 minutes)

12.  Organized GIAN course on “Organic Solar Cells” during January 8-12, 2018 and taught the following lectures as resource person: Charge Transfer and Transport (90 minutes); Optical Spectroscopy in Organic Solar Cells (90 minutes)

13. "Novel strategies for enhanced photo-conversion efficiencies in emerging photovoltaics technologies,” FDP workshop on Physics and Chemistry of Functional Materials (PCFM 2019) during February 21 - 22, 2019 at GITAM University, Hyderabad.

14. “Nanotechnology in Solar Photovoltaics” TEQIP workshop titled, “Nanotechnology Research Conclave - 2017(NRC - 2017)” during 29th -  31st March 2017, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.

15. “Emerging PV technologies,” TEQIP Workshop on “Contemporary perspectives of Mathematics and Physical Sciences pertaining to Engineering and Technology”, Aditya Institute of Technology and Management, Tekkali, Feb 12, 2016.

16.  “Optical Spectroscopy in Organic Solar Cells,” TEQIP workshop on “Energy Conversion and Storage (ECS-2016) during May 9-14, 2016@ IIT Hyderabad.

International

•  FELLOW: Royal Socieity of Chemistry (FRSC)

• Senior Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)

• Active Member: SPIE- International society for optics and photonics

• Active Member: IEEE

National

• FELLOW:, Telangana Academ of Sciences (FTAS)

• Active Member: National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), MNASI (2023- onwards)

• Active Member: Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) (2022-2026)

• Lifetime Member: Optical Society of India (OSI)

• Lifetime Member,  Indian Laser Association (ILA)

• Lifetime Member: ISRAPS - Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences.

Institute Responsibilities

  1.   Faculty-in-charge, IITH Technology Research Park (IITH-TRP) (April 2024 – June 2025)

2.   Member of Institute Research Advisory Council (RAC) (since September 2022)

3.   Institute Ranking coordinator. (September 2022-September 2024)

a.   Convener the Ranking committee meeting and discuss the possible good practices to improve the institute ranking in NIRF, ARIAA and QS.

b.   Oversee the data collection from various sections and check the data correctness before reporting on the Ranking Portals.

4.   Nodal officer for QS ranking and NIRF ranking (since August 2020).

5.   Member of Institute Innovation Council (IIC) (March 2021 – June 2025)

6.   Member of Institute Library Advisory Committee (LAC) (December 2022 – March 2025)

7.   Member of Senate Undergraduate Committee (SUGC) (September 2020– February 2025)

8.   Institute Representative for conducting GATE and JEE exams (every year since 2015).

9.   Center vetting team for GATE and JEE exams (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)

10. JEE counselling team (2017).

Departmental Responsibilities

11.   Head-in Charge for Department of Physics (April-June 2024)

12.   Convenor DUGC, Physics (August 2020 – February 2025)

13.   Member of DUGC, Physics (2018-2020)

14.   Placement coordinator

a.   Physics Department (August 2018 – November 2024)

b.   MTech Energy Science and Technology (March 2022 – July 2024)

15.   Member DPGC, Physics (since 2021)

16.   Department representative for development of Course Booklet (since 2019)

17.   Department Seminar series in charge (2015-2017).

18.   Part of various Doctoral Committee and many departments related activities like faculty selection shortlisting, PhD student shortlisting etc.

• Associate Editor for Elseviers’s Optical Materials. Impact Factor: 4.2

• Guest Editor for MDPI’s Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049) for Special Issue on  "Molecules and Their Various Nonlinear Optical Properties" Impact Factor: 4.2.

• Guest Editor for OPTICA ‘s Optics Express: For the Focus Issue on Energy Express: Renewable Energy and the Environment (REE)  Impact Factor: 3.833

• Active journal referee:        Nature Communications, ACS journals, RSC Advances, OSA journals: Optics Express (OptExp), Optics Letters (Opt. Lett.), Journal of Optical Society of America B (JOSA B), Elsevier Journals: Solar Energy, Mater. Lett., Spectrochemica Acta, JALCOM, Opt. Communication  etc., IOP journals: Physics Status Solidi etc., Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications (JEOS:RP), Frontiers journals., PRAMANA: Journal of Physics