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Research Interests

  • Molecular Electronics and Interfaces

  • Optoelectronic Devices

  • Scanning Probe Microscopy

Recent Updates
  • 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]
Professional Experiences

  • 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”

  • The academic-industrial visit to Nanonics Imaging Inc., Israel

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

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) October 2012

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

 

  • Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics, July 2006

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

 

  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Physics (H), July 2004

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

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