Resume
Experience
2021-Present
Faculty Scientist
UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research Indore
Indore, M.P., India
2019-2021
Research Scientist
Skolkovo Institute of Science & Technology
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sergey V Levchenko
Moscow, Russia
2017-2019
Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellow
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Berlin, Germany
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Scheffler
Dr. Sergey V Levchenko
Education
2011 - 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
PhD
Advisor: Prof. Pankaj Srivastava & Prof. Santanu Ghosh
Delhi, India
2009 - 2011
Jadavpur University
M.Sc (Physics)
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Alok K Mukhopadhyay.
Kolkata, India
2006 - 2009
Jadavpur University
B.Sc (Physics)
Kolkata, India
Professional skillset
Python, MATLAB, DFT (VASP, FHI-AIMS)
Transmission Electron Microscopy/ Low Temperature X-ray Diffraction/ Thermoelectrics, Field emission, X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (EXAFS & XANES), Small Angle X-ray Scattering, Ion irradiation
Teamwork & several National/International
Collaborations
State-of-the-art Machine Learning Methods (material science), Cluster Expansion, Wang-Landau Sampling, Monte Carlo sampling
Languages
English (native)
Bengali
Hindi
Best Poster Award in Computational Material Excellence Program, Skoltech, Moscow, September 2019.
Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2019).
Winner of prestigious AVS Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award (National graduate student award) by American Vacuum Society, Nashville, Tennessee, USA November 2016. [1st from India]
Winner of Applied Surface Science Division Student Award by American Vacuum Society, in AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition, Nashville, Tennessee, USA from November 6-11, 2016.
DST oversees travel grant, 2016.
Best graduate student oral presentation in Research Scholars’ Day at IIT Delhi 2016.
Best Poster award in Swift Heavy Ions in Materials Engineering and Characterizations (SHIMEC) 2014, October 2014, New Delhi, India.
Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test, India (All India Rank-70, 2011).
Qualified GATE 2011
Qualified JEST 2011
Ranked 65 in 12th Exam (2006), West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education
Ranked within top 20 in 10th Exam (2004), West Bengal Board of Secondary Education
Certificate of appreciation for securing highest marks in ALL science subjects in school leaving examinations (both in 2004 and 2006).
Invited lecture in Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, June, 2019.
Invited lecture in Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, December 2014.
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Awards & Honors
BRICS-STI Research Grant (awarded January 2023)
Best Thesis Award 2017, IIT Delhi (awarded August 2022).
SERB Start-up Research Grant (awarded August 2022).