Vita

  • Place and Date of Birth: Burla, Odisha, India - 1996
  • 2025 – Completed the MS-Ph.D. dual degree programme in Materials Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Chennai, India) with 8.94 CGPA, finished thesis defence on 20 August 2025
  • 2018 – Completed B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at National Institute of Technology Rourkela (Rourkela, India) with 8.48 CGPA
  • 2014 - Passed the All India Senior School Certificate Examination (Class XII) with 90.8 percent marks
  • 2012 - Passed the Secondary School Examination (Class X) with 10 CGPA (out of 10)

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Materials for solar cells
  • Materials for solar water splitting
  • Photonics
  • Plasmonics
  • Perovskite materials
  • Computational materials science
  • Materials informatics

Work Experience

  • January 2026 onwards – Working as a research assistant in Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany. Involved in research on photonics
     
  • July 2018 – July 2024 (Half-Time Research Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Worked as a Half-Time Research Assistant (part-time) under Dr. Tiju Thomas at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
     
  • May-July 2017 (Internship at Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute,Kolkata, India) – Worked under Dr. Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay in the Advanced Mechanical and Material Characterisation Division on the topic ’Study of titanium dioxide based systems’
     
  • May-July 2016 (Internship at Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, India) - Worked under Dr. Nand Kishore Prasad in the Metallurgical Engineering Department on the topic ’Synthesis of iron-doped cobalt oxide nanoparticles and the study of their magnetic behaviour’
     
  • December 2015 (Internship at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar,India) - Worked under Dr. Kisor Sahu in the School of Minerals, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering on the topic ’Computational modelling of lithium air batteries’