Infectious diseases and therapeutics, Plasticizer biodegradation, Crystallography and Bioinformatics, Use of structural biology to develop novel biocatalysts and therapeutics

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Thin Films and Multilayers of Complex Oxide Materials, Magnetism, Superconductivity

Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue Crack Growth, Damage Mechanics, Composites, FGMs, Piezoelectric Materials, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Failure Analysis, Machine Learning, Computational Mechanics, Multiscale Modeling, Multi-physics Modeling, Finite Element Analysis, Isogeometric Analysis, XFEM, XIGA, Phase Field Modeling

Structure - property correlations, Electron Microscopy, Crystallographic Texture, Thermo-mechanical processing, Plasticity, Annealing, Advanced Manufacturing methods, Additive Manufacturing, Smart Materials, Shape memory alloys, Strutural Materials, Metallic multilayers, Ti alloys, Ni base superalloys, Al alloys

We investigate quantum and correlated-electron phenomena in condensed matter systems, with an emphasis on excitation dynamics. These excitations manifest in various degrees of freedom (spin, charge, lattice, orbital), and often involve intricate interplays among them. We study higher-order (non-dipolar) magnetisation dynamics, low-energy charge dynamics, charge ordering, and emergent spin-orbital/spin-lattice interactions in low-dimensional, multiferroic and strongly spin-orbit coupled systems.