Members
Present PhD students
Deepika Behmani
Research Topic: Low-temperature atmospheric pressure micro-plasmas: diagnostics, fluctuations, and recombination physics
Jayashree Majumdar
Research Topic: Field emission properties of metallic nanostructures created by microwave plasma generated low energy ion beams
Sargam Hunjan
Research Topic: Particle energy distributions and transport in a magnetic dipole plasma
Swati Swagatika Mishra
Research Topic: A study on cryo-plasmas: production, interactions, and quest for a strongly coupled regime
Ayesha Nanda
Research Topic: Studies on waves in a dipole plasma device
Sushanta Barman
Research Topic: Investigation of microwave plasma-based variable energy focused ion beams : nonlinear demagnification and quest for high current quantum beams
Past PhD students
Krishn Pal Singh
Mr. Krishn Pal Singh successfully defended his Ph. D. thesis titled "Investigation of optical properties of atomically heterogeneous systems created by microwave plasma based low energy ion beams" on April 8, 2024.
Dr. Krishn Pal Singh is currently teaching in an inter-college of UP government as a permanent teaching staff.
Kalyani Barman
Ms. Kalyani Barman successfully defended her Ph. D thesis titled "Low-temperature atmospheric pressure micro-plasma jets: physics and applications" on November 3, 2023.
Dr. Kalyani Barman is currently undertaking postdoctoral research at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Non-equilibrium Plasma (IRCNP) at Tohoku University, Japan.
Anuj Ram Baitha
Mr. Anuj Ram Baitha successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Production and study of a plasma confined in a dipole magnetic field" on April 2021.
Dr. Anuj Ram Baitha is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore. He is on leave from VIT and is at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (MPIPP) in Garching, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow.
Sanjeev Kumar Maurya
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Maurya successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Creation and studies of high aspect ratio micro-structures using noble gas plasma based focused ion beams" on April 2021
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Maurya completed his postdoctoral work at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (2021 - 2023). He was an assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Kaziranga University, Assam, for a brief period of time, and has recently joined Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO), Government of India as a permanent staff Scientist.
Sanghamitro Chatterjee
Mr. Sanghamitro Chatterjee successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Surface physics of atomically heterogeneous systems produced by plasma based low energy ion beams" on Aug (2018)
Dr. Sanghamitro Chatterjee was an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Dehradun Institute of Technology (DIT) University, Dehradun.
Kavita Rathore
Ms. Kavita Rathore successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Optical tomographic and spectroscopic measurement for compact microwave induced plasma [jointly with Prof. Prabhat Munshi, ME]" on Jan (2018)
Shail Pandey
Dr. Shail Pandey successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Pulse modulated microwave plasmas : self-excited instability and plasma states" on July, 3 (2015)
Dr. Shail Pandey is an Assistant Professor at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat.
Samit Paul
Dr. Samit Paul successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Micron Focusing, Diagnostics and Structuring Using Multi-Element Ion Beams" on May, 7 (2015)
Dr. Samit Paul is currently is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Karimpur Pannadevi College, Government of West Bengal.
Abhishek Chowdhury
Dr. Abhishek Chowdhury successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Multielement focused ion beamlets from high-density microwave plasmas for localized low-energy ion matter interactions" on May, 30 (2014)
Dr. Abhishek Chowdhury was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, R K Valley, Andhra Pradesh, and is currently working in the R&D section of Havells.
Debaprasad Sahu
Dr. Debaprasad Sahu successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Physics of negative ion containing plasmas: volume generation, measurement and wave induced phenomena" on December, 16 (2013)
Dr. Debaprasad Sahu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
Indranuj Dey
Dr. Indranuj Dey successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Wave interaction with plasmas confined in multicusp magnetic fields" on November, 2 (2011)
Dr. Indranuj Dey carried out post doctoral research under Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship at Kyushu University (2012 - 2014), Japan and at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (2014 - 2017). He is currently working as a Senior Experimental Physicist (R&D) in HIL Applied Medical, Israel
Jose V. Mathew
Dr. Jose V. Mathew successfully defended his Ph. D thesis titled "Multi-element focused ion beams from intense microwave plasmas: physics and applications" on December, 22 (2010)
Dr. Jose V. Mathew completed post doctoral research under "Dr. K.S.Krishnan Research Associateship (KSKRA)" at Bhaba Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai, India and joined BARC as a scientific officer. He is currently Scientific Officer F.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Dipak Bhowmik (2020-2023)
Dr. Dudh Nath Patel (2015-2017)
Past UG project students
Kuldeep (2023)
Kaanapuli Ramkumar (2022-2023), BS Physics, IIT Kanpur
Mohit Mudgal (2020)
Sushanta Barman (2019)
Nandita Pan (2019)
Pawan Pal (2018)
Sudip Das (2017)
Ashwani Kumar (2016)
Anup Kumar Bera (2016)
Biprojit Sana (2016)
Sanjeev Kumar Maurya (2015), Faculty, Kaziranga University, Assam
Bikash Ghosh (2015)
Jay Kumar Shah (2014) (Received Best M.Sc. Project Award)
Arnab Mondal (2014)
Sanghamitro Chatterjee (2013)
Amit Jash (2013)
Tuhina Satpati (2013)
Apurba Dutta (2013)
Neeraj Singh (2013) (Received Best M.Sc. Project Award)
Souvik Sarkar (2013)
Sayandip Ghosh (2011), Faculty, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
A. Jayakiran (2011)
Jyoti Aneja (2011)
Avradip Pradhan (2011), Faculty, Narajole Raj College, Vidyasagar University (Received Best M.Sc. Project Award)
Krishanu Roychowdhury (2011), Faculty, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Atanu Modak (2010)
Siddhartha Chowdhury (2009)
Samit Paul (2009), Faculty, Karimpur Pannadevi College, Calcutta University
Tathagata Chowdhury (2009)
Adish Vartak (2008) Systems Research Engineer at Intel, Palo Alto, CA USA (Received Best M.Sc. Project Award)
Kartik (2008)
Victor Mukherjee (2007), Faculty, IISER Berhampur (Received Best M.Sc. Project Award)
Abhishek Chowdhury (2007)
Mohammad Shamim (2007)
Indranuj Dey (2005), Research Scientist at HIL Applied medical, Jerusalem, Israel
Sachin Jain (2005), Faculty, IISER Pune
Anukul Prasad Parhi (2006), Faculty, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, Orissa
Meenakshi Singh (2006), Faculty, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Summer Project Students
Vani Mahajan (2024), IISER Mohali [SURGE]
Shaahnawaz Mustafir (2024), BS Physics, IIT Kanpur
Ashutosh Nayak (2023), NISER, Bhubaneswar
Chetan Jangid (2023), NIT Warangal [SURGE]
Dipesh Kumar Singh (2022), IISER Kolkata