Facilities

Dr. Abinash Pradhan

Education: Ph.D., NIT Rourkela, Odisha, India

Research area: Metal Halide Single Crystals

Joined the group: February, 2025

E-mail: abinash@jncasr.ac.in

Shuva Biswas

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), Sree Chaitanya College, Habra, West Bengal, India.

Research area: Structure-property analysis of metal halides & chalcogenides

Joined the group: April, 2022

E-mail: shuva@jncasr.ac.in

Ivy Maria

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), St. Stephens College, Delhi University, India; M.S. Chemistry, JNCASR, Bangalore

Research area: Disorder in Correlated Systems

Joined the group: June, 2021

E-mail: ivymaria@jncasr.ac.in

Sayan Goswami

Education: B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry , Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India.

Research area: Hybrid Halide Perovskites, Metal Chalcogenides, Metal Halides

Joined the group: May, 2023

E-mail: sayangoswami@jncasr.ac.in

Dr. Suryakanta Mishra

Education: Ph.D., IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Research area: Topological Quantum Materials for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

Joined the group: March, 2024

E-mail: suryakanta@jncasr.ac.in

Dr. Kewal Singh Rana

Education: MSc (Physics): Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. PhD (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics): Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

Research area:Thermoelectrics in Complex Structured Chalcogenides, Low Temperature Transport Properties, Raman Spectroscopy

Joined the group: September, 2024

E-mail: kewal@jncasr.ac.in

Dr. Jayita Pradhan

Education: Ph.D., IACS, Kolkata, India

Research area:Halide Perovskites

Joined the group: February, 2021

E-mail: jayitap@jncasr.ac.in

Dr. Manisha Samanta

JNCASR Tenure: 2015 to 2020

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar.

Dr. Subarna Das

JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2024

Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany

Advisor: Prof. Claudia Felser

Sharanava Dasgupta

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.),Maulana Azad College, Kolkata, India

Research area: Thermoelectrics

Joined the group: January, 2025

E-mail: sharanava@jncasr.ac.in

Dr. Sandeep Howlader

Education: Ph. D., IISER, Mohali, India

Research area:Investigation of transport properties of quantum materials at low temperature and in the presence of high magnetic fields.

Joined the group: July, 2023

E-mail: sandeephowlader@jncasr.ac.in

Dr. Arnab Mandal

Education: Ph. D., IISER, Kolkata, India

Research area:Synthesis and optical property study of halide perovskites

Joined the group: June, 2023

E-mail: arnab@jncasr.ac.in

Mridul Krishna Sharma

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.),St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, India

Research area:Thermoelectrics in Chalcogenides and Chalcohalides

Joined the group: July, 2024

E-mail: mridulks@jncasr.ac.in

Vaishali Taneja

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Delhi University, India; M.Sc Chemistry, IIT Roorkee, UK, India

Research area:Thermoelectrics in Layered Materials

Joined the group: September, 2021

E-mail: vaishali@jncasr.ac.in

Riddhimoy Pathak

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), Presidency University, West Bengal, India; M.Sc Chemistry, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

Research area: Thermoelectrics and low-lattice thermal conductive materials.

Joined the group: April, 2019

E-mail: riddhimoy@jncasr.ac.in

Animesh Das

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India; M.Sc Chemistry, JNCASR, Bangalore

Research area: GeTe based thermoelectrics and Water Purification

Joined the group: March, 2020

E-mail: animeshdas@jncasr.ac.in

Animesh Bhui

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), Midnapore College, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India;
M.Sc. Chemistry, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India.

Research area: Thermoelectrics and low-lattice thermal conductive materials.

Joined the group: June, 2019

E-mail: animesh@jncasr.ac.in

Anustoop Das

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), Asutosh College, Calcutta University, West Bengal, India; M.Sc Chemistry, IIT, Kharagpur

Research area: Optical Properties in Metal Halides and Chalcohalides

Joined the group: September, 2020

E-mail: anustoop@jncasr.ac.in

Dr. Ananya Banik

JNCASR Tenure: 2014 to 2019

Current Affiliation: Senior Research Scientist, TCG-CREST (RISE), Kolkata

Dr. Satya Narayan Guin

JNCASR Tenure: 2012 to 2017

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

Dr. Subhajit Roychowdhury

JNCASR Tenure: 2014 to 2019

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal.

Subhajit Das

JNCASR Tenure: 2019 to 2020

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Ohio State University, USA

Advisor: Robert Baker’s lab

Dr. Manoj Kumar Jana

JNCASR Tenure: 2012 to 2017

Current Affiliation: Senior Process Engineer, Applied Materials, USA

Dr. Arindom Chatterjee

JNCASR Tenure: 2013 to 2015

Current Affiliation: Senior Post doctoral fellow, University of Twente, Netherlands

Dr. Sujoy Saha

JNCASR Tenure: 2015 to 2016

Dr. Arka Sarkar

JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2018

Current Affiliation: Process Engineer, Intel Corporation, USA

Dr. Krishnendu Maji

JNCASR Tenure: 2018 to 2020

Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Advisor: Prof. Maria Ibáñez

Hasem Ansari

JNCASR Tenure: 2022 to 2023

Current Affiliation: Graduate student, Jadavpur University, India

Advisor: Ananya Baksi

Swagata Patra

JNCASR Tenure: 2023 to 2024

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Institut Jean Lamour, France

Advisor: Bertrand Lenoir

Anupama Ghata

JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2022

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany

Advisor: Dr. Wolfgang Zeier

Aditya Bhardwaj

JNCASR Tenure: 2020 to 2021

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, ETH Zu ̈rich, Switzerland

Advisor: Maksym Kovalenko

Nupur Sontakkey

JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2022

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Chahat Goyal

JNCASR Tenure: 2021 Summer Project

Jatin Chauhan

JNCASR Tenure: 2022 Summer Project

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Advisor: Prof. Dominik Eder and Dr. Alexey Cherevan

Arpita Panda

JNCASR Tenure: 2022 to 2023

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany

Advisor: Dr. Wolfgang Zeier

Priyanka

JNCASR Tenure: 2023 to 2024

Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany

Advisor: Dr. Wolfgang Zeier

Dr. Radhakrishna Gopal

JNCASR Tenure: 2020 to 2021

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India

Dr. Shidaling Matteppanavar

JNCASR Tenure: 2018 to 2019

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, B K Arts Science and Commerce Degree College, Karnataka

Dr. Provas Pal

JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2018

Current Affiliation: Research Scientist, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland

Dr. Suresh Perumal

JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2018

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad

Dr. Kaushik Kundu

JNCASR Tenure: 2019 to 2021

Current Affiliation: Scientist, Macdermid Enthone Industrial Solution, Cookson India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru

Dr. Tanmoy Ghosh

JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2021

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi, India

Dr. Archana K Munirathnappa

JNCASR Tenure: 2020 to 2021

Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Seoul National University, South Korea

Advisor: Prof. In Chung

Dr. Abdul Ahad

JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2022

Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, University of Tokyo, Japan

Advisor: Prof. Toshiya Ideue

Dr. Kumar Saurabh

JNCASR Tenure: 2022 to 2023

Current Affiliation: Scientist, Carborundum Universal Ltd., India

Dr. Prabir Dutta

JNCASR Tenure: 2019 to 2023

Current Affiliation: Customer Support Physicist, Cryogenic Ltd., UK

Dr. Monika Bhakar

JNCASR Tenure: 2023 to 2024

Dr. Moinak Dutta

JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2021

Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, University of Houston, USA

Advisor: Joshua D. Bocarsly

Dr. Paribesh Acharyya

JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2022

Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Northwestern University, USA

Advisor: Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis

Dr. Debattam Sarkar

JNCASR Tenure: 2018 to 2023

Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Northwestern University, USA

Advisor: Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis

Dr. Ekashmi Rathore

JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2021

Dr. Sushmita Chandra

JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2022

Current Affiliation: Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany

Advisor: Prof. Claudia Felser

Deep Narayan Dwivedi

Education: B.Sc. Physics (Hons), Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Bhopal, India. M.Sc. Physics, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

Research area:Quantum Materials, Transport Properties, Thermoelectrics

Joined the group: August, 2024

E-mail: deepnarayan@jncasr.ac.in

Abhishek Kumar Gupta

Education: B.Sc. Chemistry, Hindu College, Delhi University, India. M.Sc. Chemical Science, IISC Bangalore

Research area:Thermoelectrics

Joined the group: July, 2024

E-mail: abhishekkg@jncasr.ac.in

Sayantoni Choudhury

Education: M.Sc. Chemistry, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India

Research area:Thermoelectrics, Pigments and Perovskites

Joined the group: July, 2024