Swastika currently is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR). She received her Ph.D. in Computational Materials Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore in 2017, after that she pursued as a postdoc and affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Shenzhen University till Feb, 2019. Swastika moved to University of California San Diego and continued working as postdoctoral associate till July, 2021, after which she pursued her postdoctoral research at University of Luxembourg till March, 2022. Her current research group at IITR – Computational Laboratory for Energy ApplicatioN (CLEAN) – aims at designing and understanding the chemistry of functional materials for energy storage and conversion. Her recent research accomplishments highlight the designing of intercalation materials for lithium/sodium/magnesium ion batteries and solid electrolytes for lithium/sodium-ion solid-state rechargeable batteries. Another programs include the development of cutting edge computational approaches for large scale simulation of the realistic materials with various functionalities, such as, catalysis, thermoelectric properties, charge carrier (electron/hole) transport and trapping. Dr. Banerjee’s current CV can be found here.