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Arindam Ghosh

Chair

Manish Jain

Co-Chair

U. Chandni

Logistics

Mayank Shrivastava

Industrial Liaison

Rajendra Singh

Industrial Liaison

Akshay Singh

Technical Program

EXPERT COMMITTEES FOR TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Topics

Growth, Synthesis, Materials

Committee Members

  • Atikur Rahman (IISER Pune)
  • Akshay Singh (IISc)
  • M. M. Shaijumon (IISER Tvm)
  • Mukesh Kumar (IIT Ropar)
  • Prasana K Sahoo (IITKgp)
  • Mahesh Kumar (IIT Jodhpur)

Topics

Properties
(Theory)

Committee Members

  • Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR)
  • Manish Jain (IISc)
  • Debjani Karmakar (BARC)
  • Priya Mahadevan (SNBNCBS)
  • Hridis Pal (IIT Bombay)
  • Amit Agarwal (IIT Kanpur)

Topics

Properties
(Experiment)

Committee Members

  • Mandar Deshmukh (TIFR)
  • Chandni Usha (IISc)
  • Ashish Arora (IISER Pune)
  • Sudipta Dubey (IIT Kanpur)
  • Atindra Nath Pal (SNBNCBS)
  • Adarsh K. V. (IISER Bhopal)
  • Anindya Das (IISc)
  • Vidya Kochat (IIT Kgp)
  • Sajal Dhara (IIT Kgp)
  • Tanuja Mohanty (JNU)

Topics

2D Engineering and Applications

Committee Members

  • Mayank Srivastava (IISc)
  • Saurabh Lodha (IIT Mumbai)
  • Digbijay Nath (IISc)
  • Akshay Naik (IISc)
  • Manu Jaiswal (IIT Chennai)
  • Samaresh Das (IIT Delhi)
  • Bharti Singh (Delhi Technological Univ)
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Arindam Ghosh

Professor
Indian Institute of Science
Email: arindam@iisc.ac.in

Education

PhD in Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2000

Professional Activities

  • Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2017
  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2011
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2005

Award and Honors

  • Infosys Prize, 2020
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2013
  • Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 2016
  • Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2015
  • Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, 2013
  • Swarnajayanti Fellowship, 2008

Research Interests

  • 2D material electrical transport
  • Noise spectroscopy

Representative Publications

  1. Kinikar, T. P. Sai, S. Bhattacharyya, A. Agarwala, T. Biswas, S. Sarker, H. R. Krishnamurthy, M. Jain, V. Shenoy, A. Ghosh, Nature Nanotechnology 12, 564 (2017) doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.24.
  2. Kochat, C. S. Tiwary, T. Biswas, G. Ramalingam, K. Hsieh, K. Chattopadhyay, S. Raghavan, M. Jain, and A. Ghosh, Nano Lett. 16, 562 (2016).
  3. A. Aamir, P. Karnatak, A. Jayaraman, T. P. Sai, T. V. Ramakrishnan, R. Sensarma, and A. Ghosh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 136806 (2018)
  4. Hsieh, V. Kochat, T. Biswas, C. S. Tiwary, A. Mishra, R. Gopalakrishnan, J. Aditya, K. Chattopadhyay, S. Raghavan, M. Jain, and A. Ghosh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 206803 (2021) (Editor’s suggestion)

Manish Jain

Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Science
Email: mjain@iisc.ac.in

Education

PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2002

Professional Activities

  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2018
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2012
  • Senior Research Engineer, Corporate Materials Research Laboratory, 3M Company, 2008

Research Interests

  • First principles calculations – density functional theory and GW.
  • Twistronics
  • Twistnonics

Representative Publications

  1. Mit H. Naik and Manish Jain, Physical Review Letters 121, 266401 (2018).
  2. Indrajit Maity, Mit H. Naik, Prabal K. Maiti, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and Manish Jain, Physical Review Research 2, 013335 (2020).
  3. Sudipta Kundu, Mit H. Naik, and Manish Jain, Physical Review Materials 4, 054004 (2020).
  4. Hsieh, V. Kochat, T. Biswas, C. S. Tiwary, A. Mishra, R. Gopalakrishnan, J. Aditya, K. Chattopadhyay, S. Raghavan, M. Jain, and A. Ghosh, Physical Review Letters 126, 206803 (2021).
  5. Sudipta Kundu, Mit H. Naik, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and Manish Jain, Physical Review B 105, L081108 (2022).

U. Chandni

Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Email: chandniu@iisc.ac.in

Education

PhD in Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2012

Professional Activities

  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2017
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, USA, 2013

Award and Honors

  • NS Sathya Murthy Award for Young Scientists, 2022
  • SERB Women Excellence Award, 2022
  • INSA Young Scientist Award, 2019
  • IQIM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013

Research Interests

  • 2D Materials and Devices
  • Electron transport and tunneling
  • Correlated Physics, Moiré heterostructures

Representative Publications

  1. S. Mahapatra et al. Nano Letters 22, 5708 (2022)
  2. Bhowmik et al. Nature Physics, 18, 639-643 (2022).
  3. Ghawri et al. Nature Communications, 13, 1522 (2022).
  4. Pandey et al. Phys. Rev. Appl. 12, 064032 (2019).

Mayank Shrivastava

https://faculty.dese.iisc.ac.in/mayank/

Rajendra Singh

Professor
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Email: rsingh@physics.iitd.ac.in

Education

M.Sc. in Physics, H.N.B. Garhwal Central University, Uttarakhand, India 1993 - 1995 Ph.D. in Physics, Inter-University Accelerator Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 1995 - 2001

Professional Activities

  • Post-doctoral fellow, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany, 2001-2003
  • Post-doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany, 2004-2006
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), 2006-2012
  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), 2012-2018
  • Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), 2018 – current

Award and Honors

  • MRSI Medal Award 2017 by Materials Research Society of India, Bangalore
  • Teaching Excellence Award, IIT Delhi, 2018

Research Interests

  • 2D materials growth using MBE and CVD
  • Irradiation studies on 2D materials and devices
  • Layer transfer of 2D materials
  • Wide bandgap semiconductors for electronic and optoelectronic devices
  • 2D/3D heterostructures

Representative Publications

  1. P Aggarwal et al, Cryst. Growth Des. 22 (2022) 3206 -3217
  2. S Kaushik et al, ACS Appl. Nanomat. 5 (2022) 7481-7491
  3. S Das et al, Nature Electronics 4 (2021) 786-799
  4. T F Schranghamer et al, Chem. Soc. Rev. 50 (2021) 11032 – 11054
  5. S Kaushik et al, Adv. Opt. Mater. (2021) 2002214 (20pp)
  6. S Sorifi et al, Nanoscale Adv. 4 (2021) 479-490
  7. M Sharma et al, ACS Appl. Nanomat. 3 (2020) 4445-4453
  8. M Moun et al, Phys. D: App. Phys 52 (2019) 325102 (7pp)
  9. A Singh et al, Cryst. Growth Des. 21 (2021) 4940 – 4946
  1. M Moun et al, Scientific Reports 8 (2018) 11799 (9 pp)

Akshay Singh

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru, India
Email: aksy@iisc.ac.in

Education

B.Tech in Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), India, 2006-10 PhD in Physics, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2010-16

Professional Activities

  • Post-Doc Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2016-19
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, 2020-current
  • Member, American Physical Society (2010-2021)
  • Member, Material Research Society (2016-2019)

Award and Honors

  • Infosys Young Investigator, Infosys Foundation, 2022-current

  • Graduate school dissertation writing fellowship, UT Austin (USA), 2016

Research Interests

  • Ultrafast spectroscopy (Pump-probe, Time-resolved Photoluminescence)
  • 2D material growth (monolayers, heterostructures, epitaxial growth)
  • Excitonic physics
  • Magnetic van der Waals materials

Representative Publications

  1. M Mondal et al, ACS Nano, 16, 14456 (2022)
  2. R Debnath et al, Physical Review B, 106, 125409 (2022)
  3. A Dash et al, Bulletin of Material Science, 44, 227 (2021)
  4. J Choi et al., Physical Review Letters, 126, 47401 (2021)
  5. K Tran, J Choi, A Singh, 2D Materials, 8, 22002 (2020)
  6. SS Jo, A Singh et al., Nano Letters, 20, 8592 (2020)
  7. A Singh et al., Nano-research, 11, 1 (2020)
  8. K Tran et al., Nature, 567, 71 (2019)
  9. A Steinhoff, M Florian, A Singh et al., Nature Physics, 14, 1199 (2018)
  10. A Singh et al., Physical Review Letters, 117, 257402 (2016)