About the PI

ABOUT PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

An experimental physicist with expertise in linear and non-linear terahertz spectroscopic methods, generation, and application of intense terahertz pulses with a strong focus on exploring ultrafast dynamics in novel correlated materials across the condensed matter.

EXPERIENCE

Professor, Reader-F (July 2023 - Present) 

School of Physical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneshwar, India.
Ultrafast Terahertz Dynamics.

Adjunct Advisor (April 2021 - August 2024)

Department of Materials Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

TeraDynamics Group, Multifunctional Ferroic Materials.

Assistant Professor (April 2021 - June 2023) 

School of Physical Sciences, NISER Bhubaneshwar, India.
Ultrafast Terahertz Dynamics.

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Team Leader (March 2019 - March 2021)

Department of Materials Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
TeraDynamics Group, Multifunctional Ferroic Materials.

Postdoc (February 2017 - March 2021)

Department of Materials Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Multifunctional Ferroic Materials.

Postdoc (February 2016 - January 2017)

Instituto Nanoscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy.
NEST, National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology.

Postdoc (November 2015 - February 2016)

Ruhr-​Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Chair of Applied Solid State Physics.

Project Assistant (August 2011 - October 2011)

Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Science (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, India.
Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (summa cum laude), Universität Bochum, Germany (2012 - 2015)

THz Transmission Spectroscopy of Charge Carriers in Semiconductor Heterostructures under Surface Electric Fields.

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M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (2009 - 2011)

Growth, Characterization, and Phase Segregation in AgInSe2 doped with Cobalt and Manganese.

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B.Sc. (H), RKMV Belur Math, University of Calcutta, India (2006 - 2009)

Honors, with first-class in Physics