Hii..!  I am Subhadip Mondal. I am a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur. 

Can we achieve the "Holy Grail" of mode-specific Chemistry? Is it still really a "Dream"? How far are we from reality? 

Well, at least part of these questions, I am trying to address in my Ph.D. journey. 

My research topics lie under the hood of "Polaritonic Chemistry", It combines cavity-QED with chemical reactions (rates, mechanisms, etc.). From a broad perspective, most of my current research is focused on harnessing the quantum properties of light to control chemical reactivity. 

One of the fundamental steps in chemical reactions is the phenomenon of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR). IVR is the process by which the excess vibrational energy gets shared between different vibrational modes of the molecule. The study of IVR is the key to understanding the dynamical features that govern the making and breaking of chemical bonds.

To cut the story short, my primary goal is to understand how this energy redistribution process gets modulated inside an optical cavity and what the implications of this modulation are to the rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions, when the molecule is strongly coupled - Vibrational Strong Coupling (VSC), to the inside vacuum EM fields in an Optical Cavity. 

Here is a brief  Write-up on Polariton Chemistry.

Here is the Synopsis of my Ph.D. Thesis.