Ongoing Project: Early Career Research (ECR) Awarded Project from SERB, DST India on supramolecular electronics
One(1) Ph.D. position is available through University-sponsored projects [Details and application link]

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, SRM University-Amaravati, India (June 2017 - Present)
Postdoctoral Fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (December 2012 - December 2016)

The position was joint with Department of Materials & Interfaces and Organic Chemistry

Visit Innovation Lab GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany in F-SKFM development project (April 2015)
Visiting Research Associate, Surface Physics, and Materials Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India (November – December 2012)
Senior Research Support Specialist, State University of New York, Albany, USA

Worked on (June – October 2012); development project for fluid-mode AFM imaging methodology

Academic Consultant (JNCASR part) with Shell (India) Pvt. Ltd. (December 2010 – March 2011)

Worked on the project titled “Nano-antennas for solar energy harvesting”

Training on scanning probe instruments and related microscopy; (July 2009)

Education

Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit,

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India

Thesis title: Studies of Active Layer Morphology in Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer based Solar Cells using Optical and Force Microscopy Methods

Supervisor: Prof. K. S. Narayan

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

Thesis title: Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Oscillation of Nd: YAG Laser around 1.3 microns: A Potential Source for Coherent Terahertz Generation

Thesis supervisor: Prof. P. K. Datta

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Awards

Early Career Research Award, SERB, DST, Govt. of India, 2019-2022 (Research grant – 48.3 Lakhs)
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, PBC Program, Council for Higher Education, Israel, 2013
Best poster award under the theme symposium Biosensors, IUMRS-ICA, Bangalore, 2013
Student presentation award at 11th International Conference on Near Field Optics, Nanophotonics and related Techniques (NFO11), Beijing, China, September 2010
Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), DST, CSIR, JNCASR (India) and Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) travel grants for attaining International conferences and scientific visits