Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, Indian Institute for Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune India
January 2023- Present
Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI USA
August 2021 - January 2023
Research Associate: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton NJ USA
July 2020 - August 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn AL USA
May 2018 - July 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany
May 2017 - April 2018
Visiting Researcher: Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn AL USA
November 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Physics - Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar India
Feb 2017
Master of Science in Physics - University of Allahabad, Allahabad India
June 2011
Bachelor of Science in Physics - Dr. R. M. L. Awadh University, Faziabad India
June 2009
National Science Foundation STTR, Aug 2022- July 2023
Project Title: Metal Fueled Hall effect thruster using a radioisotope heater
Awarded amount: $ 271,000
Position: Co - Principal Investigator
Department of Energy (Opportunities in Frontier Plasma Science), Sept 2022- Aug 2024
Project Title: Understanding the melting dynamics of the plasma crystal under the influence of varying magnetic field
Awarded amount: $ 134,023
Position: Principal Investigator
Department of Defense STTR with Rogue Space Systems Corporation, July 2022- Dec 2022
Project Title: Mitigating Damage of Small Sized Orbital Debris
Awarded amount: $ 250,000
Position: Principal Investigator
NSF EPSCoR CPU2AL seed funding
Project Title: Influence of magnetic field on nanoparticle growth and structure dynamics
Awarded amount: $ 35,000
Position: Principal Investigator
Awarded by DAAD- German Academic Exchange Service for pursuing postdoc research at DLR Germany
Awarded by Eastern Michigan University for developing plasma facility at the University.
3 credit release by Eastern Michigan University for undergraduate research and training.
Awarded by Eastern Michigan University for faculty professional development and innovation.
Travel Award by 18th International Congress on Plasma Physics
for presenting poster on experimental observation of flow induced dust acoustic shock waves in a complex plasma.
Best Poster Award at PSSI annual meeting 2015
Plasma Science Society of India, SINP India.
APS DPP travel Award 2016
Awarded by American Physical society for presenting poster on Precursor solitons in a flowing complex (dusty) Plasma.
Homi Bhabha National Institute travel Award
Awarded by Homi Bhabha National Institute India for attending APS DPP conference, San Jose 2016.
Department of Atomic Energy
DAE fellowship to pursuing PhD in 2012.
Local organizing committee member GEC 2023 organized at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
APS-DPP 2023 program subcommittee member in the area of low temperature/ dusty plasmas
Member of Michigan Institute of Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)
APS DPP Graduate School Day 2021
Chaired session at 62nd APS DPP 2020
Session BO06: Fundamental plasmas: Dusty and Strongly coupled plasma
Chaired session at 62nd APS DPP 2020
Session UO4: Basic and low temperature plasmas: Plasma sheath, Dusty plasmas, and Pattern formation
Reviewer for Peer - reviewed Journals
Including: Physics of Plasma, Review of Modern Plasma Physics, Chaos, Physical Review E, IEEE transaction of Plasma Science - IEEE Xplore, Journal of Applied Physics, Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Physics Review Research, Journal of Physics D: Applied physics
Plasma Science Society of India (2013)
American Physical Society
Asia Pacific devision of Plasma Science
Honor Society of Sigma Pi Sigma
Lab Establishment for Plasma Research
Plasma research group at IISER Pune
Development of Plasma Research Facility at Eastern Michigan University
Plasma reactor for efficient plasma enhanced catalysis and ammonia synthesis, Princeton University
Experimental setup of Crater formation at Lunar surface
Auburn University in Prof Uwe Konopka's Lab
Experimental setup for phase transition studies
Work with student to develop this experimental lab setup in Auburn University
Dusty Plasma Experimental device for complex plasma flows
Developed this laboratory as a PhD student. One of the very diverse experimental lab for complex plasma flow research.