1. Naini Bajaj, Dhanashree Chemate, Harish P. Veeravenkata, Ashish Khandelwal, M. K. Chattopadhyay, Moinak Dutta, Aditya Prasad Roy, Archana Sagdeo, Ankit Jain, Shriganesh S. Prabhu, Kanishka Biswas and Dipanshu Bansal. Sublinear temperature dependence of thermal conductivity in the incommensurate phase of TlInTe2. Phys. Rev. B, 2022, 106, 214101.
2. Sahil Tippireddy, Feridoon Azough, Vikram Vikram, Animesh Bhui, Philip A. Chater, Demie Kepaptsoglou, Quentin Ramasse, Robert Freer, Ricardo Grau-Crespo, Kanishka Biswas, Paz Vaqueiro and Anthony V. Powell. Local Structural Distortions and Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Ge-Substituted Chalcopyrite. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 23874.
3. Sukanya Pal, Raagya Arora, Ananya Banik, K. V. Glazyrin, D.V.S. Muthu, Kanishka Biswas, U. V. Waghmare and A. K. Sood. Pressure-induced topological and structural phase transitions in natural van der Waals heterostructures from the (SnTe)m(Bi2Te3)n homologous family: Raman spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction and density functional theory. Phys. Rev. B, 2022, 106, 134104
4. Debattam Sarkar,  Manisha Samanta,  Tanmoy Ghosh,  Kapildeb Dolui,  Subarna Das,  Kumar Saurabh,  Dirtha Sanyal and Kanishka Biswas. All-scale Hierarchical Nanostructures and Superior Valence Band Convergence Lead to Ultra-high Thermoelectric Performance in Cubic GeTe. Energy Environ. Sci., 2022, 15, 4625.
5. Paribesh Acharyya, Tanmoy Ghosh, Koushik Pal, Kewal Singh Rana, Moinak Dutta, Diptikanta Swain, Martin Etter, Ajay Soni, Umesh V. Waghmare and Kanishka Biswas. Glassy thermal conductivity in Cs3Bi2I6Cl3 single crystal. Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 5053.
6. Sushmita Chandra, Usha Bhat, Prabir Dutta, Aditya Bhardwaj, Ranjan Datta and Kanishka Biswas. Modular Nanostructures Facilitate Low Thermal Conductivity and Ultra-High Thermoelectric Performance in n-type SnSe. Adv. Mater., 2022, 2203725.
7. Kanishka Biswas, Zhifeng Ren, Yuri Grin, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Takao Mori and Lidong Chen. Thermoelectric Materials Science and Technology Towards Applications. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2022, 121, 070401.
8. Cheng Chang, Kanishka Biswas, In Chung, Feng Hao, Jiaqing He, Maria Ibanez, Jian Liu, Bingchao Qin, Gangjian Tan, Peng Li Wang, Di Wu, Yu Xiao, Hongyao Xie and Li-Dong Zhao. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis: Pioneer of Discovering New Materials. Materials Lab, 2022, 1, 220052.
9. Riddhimoy Pathak, Prabir Dutta, Ashutosh Srivastava, Divya Rawat, Radha Krishna Gopal, Abhishek K. Singh, Ajay Soni and Kanishka Biswas. Strong Anharmonicity-induced Low Thermal Conductivity and High n-type Mobility in Topological Insulator Bi1.1Sb0.9Te2S. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, e202210783.
10. Susan E. Latturner, Kanishka Biswas, Daniel P. Shoemaker and Kirill Kovnir. Laudatio Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. Z. Anorg.Allg.Chem., 2022, 648, e2022002.
11. Jayita Pradhan, Anustoop Das, Kaushik Kundu, Chahat Goyal and Kanishka Biswas. Soft Crystal Lattice and Large Anharmonicity Facilitate the Self-Trapped Excitonic Emission in Ultrathin 2D Nanoplates of Rb2PbBr5. Chem. Sci, 2022, 13, 9952-9959.
12. Abdul Ahad, Debattam Sarkar, Vaishali Taneja and Kanishka Biswas. Coexistence of Quantum Diffusive and Diffusive Two Band Carriers in Site Disordered AgSnSbTe3. Mater. Today Phys., 2022, 27, 100787.
20. Sushmita Chandra, Prabir Dutta and Kanishka Biswas. High-Performance Thermoelectrics Based on Solution-Grown SnSe Nanostructures. ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 7-14.
Education: Ph.D., NIT Rourkela, Odisha, India
Research area: Metal Halide Single Crystals
Joined the group: February, 2025
E-mail: abinash@jncasr.ac.in
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
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
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
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
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
Education: Ph.D., IACS, Kolkata, India
Research area:Halide Perovskites
Joined the group: February, 2021
E-mail: jayitap@jncasr.ac.in
JNCASR Tenure: 2015 to 2020
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar.
JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2024
Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Claudia Felser
Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.),Maulana Azad College, Kolkata, India
Research area: Thermoelectrics
Joined the group: January, 2025
E-mail: sharanava@jncasr.ac.in
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
JNCASR Tenure: 2014 to 2019
Current Affiliation: Senior Research Scientist, TCG-CREST (RISE), Kolkata
JNCASR Tenure: 2012 to 2017
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
JNCASR Tenure: 2014 to 2019
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal.
JNCASR Tenure: 2019 to 2020
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Ohio State University, USA
Advisor: Robert Baker’s lab
JNCASR Tenure: 2012 to 2017
Current Affiliation: Senior Process Engineer, Applied Materials, USA
JNCASR Tenure: 2013 to 2015
Current Affiliation: Senior Post doctoral fellow, University of Twente, Netherlands
JNCASR Tenure: 2015 to 2016
JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2018
Current Affiliation: Process Engineer, Intel Corporation, USA
JNCASR Tenure: 2018 to 2020
Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Advisor: Prof. Maria Ibáñez
JNCASR Tenure: 2022 to 2023
Current Affiliation: Graduate student, Jadavpur University, India
Advisor: Ananya Baksi
JNCASR Tenure: 2023 to 2024
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Institut Jean Lamour, France
Advisor: Bertrand Lenoir
JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2022
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
Advisor: Dr. Wolfgang Zeier
JNCASR Tenure: 2020 to 2021
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, ETH Zu ̈rich, Switzerland
Advisor: Maksym Kovalenko
JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2022
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
JNCASR Tenure: 2021 Summer Project
JNCASR Tenure: 2022 Summer Project
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Advisor: Prof. Dominik Eder and Dr. Alexey Cherevan
JNCASR Tenure: 2022 to 2023
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
Advisor: Dr. Wolfgang Zeier
JNCASR Tenure: 2023 to 2024
Current Affiliation: Graduate Student, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
Advisor: Dr. Wolfgang Zeier
JNCASR Tenure: 2020 to 2021
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India
JNCASR Tenure: 2018 to 2019
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, B K Arts Science and Commerce Degree College, Karnataka
JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2018
Current Affiliation: Research Scientist, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2018
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad
JNCASR Tenure: 2019 to 2021
Current Affiliation: Scientist, Macdermid Enthone Industrial Solution, Cookson India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru
JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2021
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi, India
JNCASR Tenure: 2020 to 2021
Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Seoul National University, South Korea
Advisor: Prof. In Chung
JNCASR Tenure: 2021 to 2022
Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, University of Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Prof. Toshiya Ideue
JNCASR Tenure: 2022 to 2023
Current Affiliation: Scientist, Carborundum Universal Ltd., India
JNCASR Tenure: 2019 to 2023
Current Affiliation: Customer Support Physicist, Cryogenic Ltd., UK
JNCASR Tenure: 2023 to 2024
JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2021
Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, University of Houston, USA
Advisor: Joshua D. Bocarsly
JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2022
Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Northwestern University, USA
Advisor: Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis
JNCASR Tenure: 2018 to 2023
Current Affiliation: Post doctoral fellow, Northwestern University, USA
Advisor: Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis
JNCASR Tenure: 2016 to 2021
JNCASR Tenure: 2017 to 2022
Current Affiliation: Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Claudia Felser
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
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
Education: M.Sc. Chemistry, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India
Research area:Thermoelectrics, Pigments and Perovskites
Joined the group: July, 2024
E-mail: sayantoni@jncasr.ac.in
Education: B.Tech., Govt. College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, West Bengal, M.Tech., IIT, Kanpur, UP, India
Research area:Thermoelectrics
Joined the group: September, 2023
E-mail: ayang@jncasr.ac.in
Education: B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons), Bankura Christian College, West Bengal, India; M.Sc. Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, India
Research area:Thermoelectrics
Joined the group: August, 2022
E-mail: indrajithaldar@jncasr.ac.in