Education
2015-2020: Ph.D., Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India
2013-2015: M.Sc. (2 Yrs.), Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India
2010-2013: B.Sc. (Physics), Krishnath College, University of Kalyani, India
Academic Positions
11/2024- present: Assistant Professor, Department of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India
08/2024-09/2024: Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA
04/2021-10/2024: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, USA
01/2021-04/2021: Project Scientist, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India
07/2019: Visiting scholar, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
11/2018: Visiting scholar, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Awards/Nominations & Grants
2025: Prime Minister Early Career Research Grant (PM-ECRG), ANRF, India
2021: Outstanding Ph.D. thesis award, IIT Kanpur, India.
2016: Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship (SPMF) ( CSIR India, 3 students were selected based on Physical Science NET June 2015)
2015: Secured all India rank (AIR) 5 in NET, AIR 21 in GATE, AIR 26 in JEST.
2013-2015: Postgraduate merit scholarship for university rank holders, awarded by the UGC, Govt. of India.
2013: Secured all India rank 27 in IIT-JAM (Physics), AIR 18 in JEST.
2013: Basana Mazumdar award for obtaining highest marks (1st/408 students) in the B.Sc. degree in Physics, University of Kalyani, India.
2013: Aswini Ghatak Memorial Award and Debasree Biswas Memorial Award for securing the highest marks in Krishnath College, India.
Awarded by the Alumni Krishnath College.
2012: Prof. S. K. Sen memorial award, Prof. A. C. Guha memorial award, and Late Al Haj Sk Md. Zakaria award for excellence in physics by Krishnath College, India.
2010-2015: INSPIRE scholarship for higher education, awarded by the DST, Govt. of India (Awarded to the top 1% students (among ~300k students) in 12th grade).