I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India during 2007. I finished my M.Sc in Physics from Utkal University, Orissa, India (2000) and B.Sc in Physics (Hons) from S. V. M College Jagatsinghpur, Utkal University, Orissa, India (1998). I was worked as a Research Scientist at Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea for two years from 2015 to 2017 prior to joining IIT Madras.

• Ph.D (2001-2007): (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India.
• M.Sc (1998-2000): (Physics), Utkal University, Orissa, India.
• B.Sc (Hons) (1995-1998): (Physics), Utkal University, Orissa, India.

• 2022 - Till Date : Associate Professor , Centre for Nano and Material Sciences (CNMS), Jain (Deemed-to-be-University), Bangalore, India.
• 2023 - Till Date : Adjunct Professor , Department of Physics, IIT Madras, India.
• Sep 2017 - 2022 : Ramanujan Fellow and Visiting Faculty, Department of Physics, IIT Madras, India.
• Jan 2015 - April 2017 : Research Scientist, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.
• Feb 2013 - Dec 2014: Research Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• May 2009 - Dec 2012: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
• Feb 2009 - April 2009: Visiting Scientist, Magnet Division Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India.
• Mar 2007 - Jan 2009: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Magnet Division Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India.

• Startup (01), Patents (03)
• Name of the Startup: Blue Fma Pvt Ltd, located at IITM Research Park

• Center for 2D Materials Research and Innovations (C-2DRI): (role: Co-PI) 768 Lakhs
• Center for Micro Nano Bio-Fluidics (CMNBF): (role: Co-PI) 490 Lakhs

• Ph.D guidance: 03 (completed), 05 (ongoing); Post Doc guidance: 05
• MTech guidance: 03 (completed); M.Sc Guidance: 05 (completed)
• Summer Interns: 03 (completed), 02 (ongoing); UG: 01 (completed)

• Best Scientist Award, 5th Academic Brand Award 2020 conducted by EET CRS.
• Young Achiever Award by Institute of Scholars (InSc), 2020
• Ramanujan Fellowship by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, July 2017.
• TACT (International Thin Film Conference) outstanding dissertation award, November 2015.
• BK21Plus Research Fellowship, Republic of Korea, 2015.
• Received Research Fellowship under “BK21Plus (Brain Korea 21 Program for Leading Universities & Students) Project” funded by Korean Government, 2015.
• Received Post-Doctoral Fellowship under “NTHU Project of Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Centers” funded by Government of Taiwan, 2013.
• Received Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded by National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan, 2011-2012.
• Received “Best Paper Award” for the paper entitled “Sintering mechanism and grain growth behavior of β-Si3N4 based nanocomposites by spark plasma sintering (SPS)”by Taiwan Ceramic Society, 2011.
• Received “Outstanding Poster Award” in Taiwan Association for Coating and Thin Film Technology (TACT-2010) conference held at Mingdao University, ChangHua, Taiwan, December 10-11, 2010.
• Received Post Doctoral Fellowship under “NCKU Project of Promoting Academic Excellence & Developing World Class Research Centers” funded by Government of Taiwan (2009-2010).
• Qualified “Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)” in physics in 2001.

• Session Chair, Course co-ordinator for QIP short term course on (2D materials: Physics and applications) held on 21-26 Sept.2019 at IIT Madras.

• Colloquium speaker at department of physics IIT Jammu, September 2020
• Keynote speaker at Workshop on NEMS Technologies “Modern Interdisciplinary approach in Engineering, NEMS TECH 2020” at NIT Silchar, 17-21 August, 2020.
• Session chair at International Conference on "Frontiers in Materials from Basic Science to Real-time Applications (F2DM) at Centre for Nano and Materials Sciences (CNMS)", Jain (Deemed-to-be-University), Bangaluru, India, 13-16 March 2019.
• Invited speaker at 45th International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings & Thin Films (ICMCTF) Town & Country Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA, 24th April, 2018
• Invited speaker at International Conference on Laser Deposition (iCOLD2017), Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras, 22nd November 2017.

• ACS Nano
• 2D Materials
• Nanoscale
• ACS applied Materials and Interfaces
• Carbon
• Journal of physics condensed matter
• Journal of Physics D
• Nanotechnology

• Prof. Hyeon-Suk Shin, UNIST, South Korea
• Prof. Po-Wen Chiu, NTHU, Taiwan
• Prof. Jow-Lay Huang, NCKU, Taiwan
• Prof. Kostya S. Novoselov, Univ. of Manchestor, UK & NUS Singapore (Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2010)
• Prof. Alexander I. Tartakovskii , Univ. of Sheffield, UK

• Prof. Abhishek K. Singh, IISc Bengaluru
• Dr. Varun Raghunathan, IISc Bengaluru
• Dr. Abhishek Misra, IIT Madras
• Dr. Vidya Preveen Bhallamudi, IIT Madras
• Prof. Kamaraj M. IIT Madras
• Dr. S. Bhattacharyya, BITS Pilani Goa
• Dr. Debakanta Samal, IOP Bhubaneswar
• Dr. Gopal Pradhan, KIIT Bhubaneswar

Teaching: 5 years of teaching experience at Department of Physics, IIT Madras from 2017-2022 (Core and elective courses at UG and PG level)

2 year of teaching experience at CNMS, Jain (Deemed-to-be-University) ((i) Applied Chemistry, (ii) Spectroscopy, (iii) Solid State Chemistry for PG and (iv) Nanotechnology for Ph.D)

Review assignment: ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Physical Review B, 2D Materials, Nanoscale, ACS applied Materials and Interfaces, Carbon, Journal of physics condensed matter, Journal of Physics D

Societal/Outreach: Resource person in Faculty development Programme organized by national institutes like IIT Indore, IIT Dhanbad, NIT Silchar, NIT Manipur and so on.

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