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Physical Chemistry @ Nanoscale
-Because LITTLE things can have HUGE impact
In order of their Graduation:
BS-MS students
Aswathi Ashok
Designation: 5th year BS-MS
Duration: August 2014- May 2015
Topic of Thesis: Plasmonics of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals
M. Bala Gopal
Designation: 5th year BS-MS
Duration: May 2014- May 2015
E-mail: balamskc@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Thesis: Ag (I) and Cu (II) Doped Colloidal CdSe Nanocrystals
Current Status: Pursuing PhD at IIT-Bombay with Prof. Anindya Datta (Profile)
Sreejith P. Nandan
Designation: 5th Year BS-MS
Duration: August 2015- May 2016
E-mail: sreejith.nandan@tuwien.ac.at
Topic of Research: Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals
Current Status: Doctoral student at Tu Wein, Vienna with Prof. Dominik Eder (Profile)
Anur Yadav
Designation: BS-MS
Duration: December 2014- May 2016
E-mail: anur.yadav@hu-berlin.de
Topic of Research: Transition Metal Doped Indium Tin Oxide Nanocrystals
Current Status: Doctoral student at University of Humboldt, Germany with Prof. Kannan Subramanian (Profile)
Nila Nandha
Designation: BS-MS
Duration: May 2017-May 2018
Email: nila.nandha@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Research: Lead-free Double Perovskite Nanocrystals
Current Status: Doctoral student at Ben Gurion University, Israel with Prof. Raz Jelinek
Ashutosh Acharya
Designation: BS-MS
Duration: May 2016-May 2017
Email: ashutosh.acharya@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Research: Colloidal Bismuth Halide Nanocrystals
Yogesh Mahor
Designation: BSMS student
Email: yogesh.mahor@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Research: Double Lead-free Halide Perovskites
Vaibhav Nawale
Designation: BS-MS student
Duration: 2018-2019
Email: nawale.vaibhav@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Tin based ruddlesden popper perovskite
Shivam Yadav
Designation: BS-MS student
Duration: 2018-2019
Email: shivam.yadav@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: White light emissive double pervoskites
Athunya P.
Designation: BS-MS student
Duration: 2018-2019
Email: athunya.p@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Doping and optical properties of lead halide perovskites
Mayank Goyal
Designation: BS-MS student (Joint project student with Emmanuel Lhuillier)
Duration: 2018-2019
Email: mayank.goyal@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Opto-electronics of nanomaterials
Kiran Kadlag
Designation: Project Student
Duration: December 2013- Feb 2016
E-mail: smail.iitm.ac.in
Topic of Research: Photphysics of Mn-doped Quantum dots
Naziya Parveen
Designation: Project Student
Duration: May 2014- May 2015
E-mail: smail.iitm.ac.in
Topic of Research: Indium Doped Cadmium Oxide Nanocrystals
Current Status: Pursuing PhD at IIT-Madras with Prof. G. Sekar (Profile)
Namitha Deepak
Designation: Project Student
Duration: Aug 2022- Nov 2022
E-mail:namitha.deepak@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Research: Two dimensional inorganic-organic lead free halide perovskites
Ph.D students
Dr. Jagdeeswararao Metikoti
Designation: PhD Student
Duration: Dec 2013-May 2018
Email: metikoti@gmail.com
Topic of Research: Surface Modification of Colloidal Nanocrystals and Studying their Optoelectronic Properties
Current Status: Post-doctoral fellow at Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Dr. Abhishek Swarnkar
Designation: Integrated PhD Student
Duration: Dec 2014-January 2019
Email: abhishek.swarnkar@students.iiserpune.ac.in swarnkar.swarnkar305@gmail.com
Topic of Research: Synthesis of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals and their Optoelectronic Devices
Shiva Shankar
Designation: PhD
Duration:
Email: shivshankar@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Research: Design of Composites for Electro- and Photocatalytic Evolution of Hydrogen from Water
Bharat Tandon
Designation: Integrated PhD student
Duration: Dec 2014-April 2019
Email: bharat.tandon05@gmail.com
Topic of Research: Plasmonics and Magnetism from Doped Colloidal Indium Oxide Nanocrystals
Current Status: Assistant Professor at IIT Roorkee
Wasim Jeelani Mir
Designation: PhD
Duration:
Email: wasim.mir@kaust.edu.sa
Topic of Research: Synthesis and Photophysics of Doped Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites Nanocrystals and Analogous Systems
Current Status: Postdoctoral Fellow at KAUST, Saudi Arabia with Prof. Osman Bakr
Vikash Kumar Ravi
Designation: Integrated PhD student
Duration: 2014-2020
Email: vikashkumar.ravi@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Electrochemistry and photophysics of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals
Current Status: Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, with Dr. Ayaskanta Sahu
Rayan Chakraborty
Designation: Integrated PhD student
Duration: 2017-2022
Email: rayan.chakroborty@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Earth Abundant Chalcogenide Semiconductors, Computational Modelling of Device Interfaces
Current Status: Postdoctoral fellow at
Duke University, USA
Tariq Sheikh
Designation: PhD student
Duration: 2017-2022
Email: tariq.sheikh@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Synthesis and Photophysics of Layered Organic Lead Halide Perovskite Single Crystals
Current Status: Postdoctoral Fellow at KAUST, Saudi Arabia with Prof. Osman Bakr
Habibul Arfin
Designation: PhD student
Duration: 2018-2023
Email: arfin.habibul@students.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Synthesis and Photophysics of Lead-free Perovskite Nanocrystals
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy with Prof.
Liberato Manna
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Post-doctoral students
Dr. Jaya Pal
Designation: Post-Doctoral fellow
Duration: 2015-2018
Email: jayapal@bankurauniv.ac.in
Topic of Research: Lead-free Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals
Current Status: Assistant Professor at Bankura University, West Bengal, India
Dr. Nancy Singhal
Designation: Post-Doctoral Scholar
Duration: January 2017-January 2019
Email: nancy@iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Research: Photophysical Studies of Perovskite Nanocrystals
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi.
Dr. Ganesh Markad
Designation: Post-Doctoral Fellow
Duration: Dec 2015-May 2017
Email: ganesh.markad@iiserpune.ac.in
Topic of Reseach: Electrochemical Studies of Perovskite Nanocrystals
Current Status: Application Scientist at Mietler Toledo
Dr. Anuraj Kshirsagar
Designation: Post-doctoral fellow
Duration: 2019-2021
Email: anuraj@iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Mechanistic understanding of the interaction between organic molecules and surface of ternary metal selenides, Lead-free Perovskite Nanocrystals.
Current Position: Postdoctoral associate at Mississippi State University, USA.
Suman Mukherjee
Email: suman.mukherjee@rciqe.hokudai.ac.jp
Research interest: Photonics of quantum structures and single photon sources
Current Status: Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics. Hokkaido University, Japan
Karamjyoti Panigrahi
Email: karamjyoti.panigrahi@acads.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: NIR emitting Phosphor design, Chiral photoluminescence, Electrocatalysis.
Current Staus:
Dibyananda Majhi
Email: dibyananda.majhi@acads.iiserpune.ac.in
Research interest: Photocatalysis for energy and environmental application, Energy storage devices and Optoelectronic materials
Current Status: Postdoctoral Fellow at Hanyang University, South Korea with Prof. Jong Ho Kim
Abhishek Kumar Chauhan
Email: abhishek.chauhan@acads.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Development of efficient and stable perovskite solar cells
Current Position: Post-doc at IISC
Aparna Shinde
Email: aparna.shinde@acads.iiserpune.ac.in
Research Interest: Synthesis and spectroscopy of confined lead based perovskites
Current Position: Post-doc at Poland University
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