Major Research Areas

Prof. M.V. Sunil Krishna

Associate Professor

mv.sunilkrishna[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

+91-1332-285

Space Physics, Optical Aeronomy, Physics of Aurora and Airglow, Ionospheric Physics, Space Weather, High energetic particle precipitation, Effects of extreme space weather, Mesospheric Sodium, Modeling of metal layer chemistry & airglow, Ozone variability, Mesospheric dynamics and chemistry, Atmospheric Waves, AI/ML based predictive modeling of thermosphere ionosphere system

Prof. Sumanta Sarkhel

Associate Professor

sarkhel[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

+91-1332-284

Space Physics: Ionosphere, Sodium Airglow, Mesospheric Chemistry and Dynamics, Atmospheric Gravity Waves, Optical Instruments: Active and Passive Remote Sensing, Airglow Photometer, Airglow Imager, Airglow Spectrometer, Sodium Lidar, Image Analyses: Allsky Imager, Optical and Thermal Image Processing, Planetary Science: Investigation of the Atmosphere of Venus and Mars.

Prof. Ambrish Pandey

Associate Professor

ambrish.pandey[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

91-133228480

Atmospheric and Space Physics: Atmospheric Turbulence, Solar and Stellar Convection, Geo- and Astrophysical Turbulent Flows, Direct Numerical Simulations, Computational Fluid Physics, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Prof. H. S. Nataraj

Assistant professor

hsnataraj[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

+91-1332-285

Atomic and Molecular Physics, Studies of Structure and Properties of Atoms and Molecules; Atomic Clocks;, Non-Accelerator Particle Physics, Parity and Time-reversal violations, Electric Dipole Moments of Atoms and Molecules

Prof. Lalita Sharma

Associate professor

lalita.sharma[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

91-1332-2857

Atomic and molecular physics

Prof. Ajay

Professor

ajaypfph[at]iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

919758328484

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Strongly Correlated Low dimensional Systems, Tunable Josephson Transport, sub-gap states, Thermal transport in coupled Quantum dots Hybrid junctions, Electronic & Transport Properties in Twisted bilayer,, multilayered Graphene nanostructures, Theoretical Aspects

Prof. Tulika Maitra

Professor

tulika.maitra[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

91-1332-2857

Condensed matter theory: Correlated electronic systems, quantum many body, electronic structure of novel materials

Prof. Tashi Nautiyal

Professor

tashi.nautiyal[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285755

Condensed Matter Theory (Study of electronic, magnetic and optical properties of compounds using ban, Condensed Matter Theory (Study of electronic, magnetic and optical properties of compounds using ban

Prof. Shiladitya Sengupta

Assistant professor

shiladityasg[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

Condensed matter theory and simulation, mechanical response of granular media and glass, Condensed matter theory and simulation, Physics of glass formation and supercooled liquids

Prof. Narayan Mohanta

Assistant professor

narayan.mohanta[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285083

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics: Topological phases of matter, Interface phenomena, Superconductivity, Majorana states, Magnetic skyrmions, Correlated and disordered electron systems

Prof. Peayush Kumar Choubey

Assistant professor

peayush[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

9110070135

Unconventional Superconductivity, Strongly-correlated electron systems, Theory of scanning tunneling spectroscopy, Two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures, Applications of machine learning in condensed matter physics

Prof. Soumitra Satapathi

Professor

soumitra.satapathi[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-284819

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Solar Cells, Perovskites Solar Cells, Organic Solar Cells,LEDs, Detectors and Lasers, Memory Devices, Nanotechnology , Nanomaterials Synthesis, and Charecterization, Nanoparticles and Nanofibers,Organic Nano Electronics, Materials science and Engineering, Sensors,Microfluidics, Water Remediation, Drug delivery and Imaging, 3D Printing,Entrepreneurship

Prof. K L Yadav

Professor

kanhaiya.yadav[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285744

Functional Nanomaterials, Multiferroics, Ceramic Nanocomposites, Carbon Nanotubes, Biomaterials

Prof. Yogesh K Sharma

Professor

yogesh.sharma[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-284861

Rechargeable Battery Technologiest, Research and Development on Lithium, Sodium and Magnesium batteries, Flexible Energy Storage Devices: Superapacitors and Batteries, Solid State Ionics, Li- Kinetics, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Nanoscince and Nanotechnology , Nanofibers, Nancompsoites, Nanohybrids

Prof. Davinder Kaur

Professor

davinder.kaur[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

9760031912

Nanoscale Thin Films & Devices, Memory Devices, Shape Memory Alloys,MFTJs, Piezo MEMS Materials, Superhard Nanocomposites, Electronic Materials, 2D thin film heterostructures,Superconducting Resonators, Sensors, Memory Switching, Energy Devices, Supercapacitors, Solar Cells

Prof. G D Varma

Professor

g.varma[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285353

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Superconductivity, Magnetism, Gas sensing, Supercapacitors and nanomaterials., Superconductivity, Magnetotransport properties of MgB2 and Fe-chalcogenide superconductors. , Magnetism and Magnetic materials, Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of perovskite manganites and spinel ferrite/cobaltite., Gas sensing and Electrochemical Properties, 2 D materials (rGO/MoS2) -metal oxides nanocomposites.

Prof. Vivek K Malik

Associate professor

vivek.malik[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-284812

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

Prof. Monojit Bag

Associate professor

monojit.bag[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285551

Organic Electronics, Organic Solar cells, Organic LEDs, FETs, sensors & detectors, Electrical & optical characterization., Organic-inorganic hybrid materials, Perovskite solar cells, stability study, impedance spectroscopy, optical microscopy., Intensity Modulated Photocurrent Spectroscopy, multi-layered device structure, polymer/electrolyte based device.

Prof. Arup Samanta

Associate professor

arup.samanta[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285161

Quantum and Nano-electronics:, Single Electron Transistors, Dopant Atom Transistors, Quantum Computing, Single Electron Metrology, Photonics:, THz Detectors, Single Photon Detectors, Magnetism: , Spintronic Devices, Silicon Photovoltaics:, SiNW- and Quantum Dots-based Solar Cells, Biophysics, Nanobiotechnology , First-principles simulation: , Investigation of electronic states and carrier transport in Nano-electronic Devices

Prof. Himanshu Fulara

Assistant professor

himanshu.fulara[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285773

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Applied Spintronics & Nanomagnetism, Energy-efficient Nanoscale Devices: Spin-Torque and Spin Hall Nano-Oscillators, Micromagnetic Simulations, Brain-Inspired Computing, Magnetic Thin Films and Multilayers

Prof. Abhishek Nag

Assistant professor

abhishek.nag[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285768

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: We investigate quantum and correlated-electron phenomena in condensed matter systems, with an emphasis on excitation dynamics.

Prof. Manjari Garg

Assistant professor

manjari.garg[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285456

Quantum transport in 2-Dimensional materials and heterostructures, Twistronics, Engineering novel device structures using low-dimensional materials and 2D/3D heterojunctions, Straintronics, Piezotronics

Prof. Kaushalya

Assistant professor

kaushalya[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

9818166226

Qubit synthesis and characterization, Silicon photonics, Quantum information science, THz Spintronics, Superconductivity and Magnetism

Prof. Binay Patra

Professor

binoy.patra[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

Quantum Field Theory, Vacuum and thermal medium with finite density , Quantum Chromodyanmics at finite temperature , Relativistic nucleus-nucleus Collisions and early Universe, Quantum Chromodynamics in an external magnetic field, QCD Thermodynamics, Magnetic Properties, Transport properties, Heavy Quark Physics, Quarkonia in finite temperature and density, General Physics, Dissipative system, Stochastic processes

Prof. Dibakar Roychowdhury

Associate professor

dibakar.roychowdhury[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

High Energy Physics, Understanding the deep interplay between theory of Quantum Gravity and Quantum Field Theories

Prof. Aalok Misra

Professor

aalok.misra[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

High Energy Physics, String Theory

Prof. Arumugam Paramasivan

Professor

aruphfph[at]iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

8979890366

Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Hot and rotating nuclei, Proton emission, Neutron stars, Radio astronomy, Quantum effects in few-body systems, Quantum computing

Prof. Rajdeep Chatterjee

Professor

rchatterjee[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332 285698

Theoretical Nuclear Physics : Low and medium energy nuclear reaction dynamics away from stability, Nuclear Astrophysics, Open Quantum Systems

Prof. Anil K Guorishetty

Professor

anil.gourishetty[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285133

Experimental Nuclear Physics, Monte Carlo simulation of response of radiation detectors, Characterization of radiation detectors for different applications, Nuclear Astrophysics, Radiation induced effects in materials, Environmental Radioactivity, Promotion of Sanskrit language and Indian knowledge Systems

Prof. Praveen C Srivastava

Associate professor

praveen.srivastava[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332 285598

Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Computational nuclear many-body theory, Shell Model, Ab-initio Many-Body Theory: No Core Shell Model, Beta decay : allowed, forbidden and double beta decays, EC rates. Quantum Computing, Quantum information theory.

Prof. Ajay Deo

Associate professor

ajay.deo[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285566

Experimental Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure at High Angular Momentum, High Resolution Gamma-ray Spectroscopy, Exotic Modes of Nuclear Excitations, Nuclear Isomerism, Decay Spectroscopy: Beta- and Alpha-decay studies using Radioactive Ion Beams, Conversion Electron Spectroscopy, Nuclear Instrumentation

Prof. Moumita Maiti

Associate professor

moumita.maiti[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285454

Nuclear Reaction Physics: Reaction Dynamics at Low Energy, Complete-Incomplete fusion, Fusion-Fission, Reaction and Decay models, Generation of Nuclear data, Neutron-deficient radionuclides, Nuclear Physics Applications: Medical science, Archaeology, Biology, Agreeculture, SHE Research: Synthesis of Superheavy elements ( Z>103), Physical and Chemical properties, Trace analysis: Trace analysis using nuclear and non-nuclear (ICP-class instruments) techniques, Next generation ISOL target designing,

Prof. Mayank Goswami

Associate professor

mayank.goswami[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285542

Radiation Detection & Measurements, Experimental Nuclear Physics, Wave Propagation modelling, AI driven Instrumentation, Automation and Applications.

Prof. Puneet Jain

Assistant professor

puneet.jain[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-284787

Charged Particle Beams and Accelerators, Higher Order Modes studies for superconducting accelerators, Beam instability issues in colliders

Prof. Vipul Rastogi

Professor

vipul.rastogi[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285333

Fiber Optics, Specialty Optical Fibers, Space Division Multiplexing, Orbital Angular Momentum Modes, Optical Fiber Amplifiers, Fiber Sensors, Plasmonic Sensors, Integrated Optics, Liquid Crystal Guided Wave Photonics, Optoelectronics, Light extraction in LED and OLED, Thin film solar cells

Prof. Ajay Wasan

Professor

awasan[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

Atomic Spectroscopy, Precision Spectroscopy (Experimental), Quantum Optics, EIT (theoretical and experimental), Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, (Experimental and theoretical)

Prof. Akhilesh K Misra

Associate professor

akhilesh.mishra[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

Nonlinear Optics, Parity-time symmetry in photonics, Structured light, Optical angular momentum of optical beams and pulses, tailoring light in all its degrees of freedom, Plasmonics, SPASER, Quantum plasmonics and plasmonic sensing, Communication in turbulent media

Prof. Sachin K Srivastava

Associate professor

sachin.srivastava[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332-285715

Fiber Optic/integrated Sensors, Fiber optic plasmonic sensors, Metasurfaces, Photonic bound states in continuum (BICs), Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, Nanostructured Optical Configurations, Enhanced Sensor Configurations, Enhanced Optical Phenomena based sensing, SERS, SEF, EOT, SEIRA, ESP-LSP Coupling based sensors, Biosensors for Water, Food and Clinical Diagnostics,

Prof. Rajesh Kumar

Associate professor

rajesh.kumar[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

Semiconductor Photonics : Phase Change Photonic Materials and Devices, Qunatum Photonics : Silicon Quantum Photonic Devices, Reconfigurable Silicon Photonics : Devices and Subsystems, THz Photonics, Optoelectronics : Switches and Photodetectors, Silicon and CMOS Photonics, Optical Signal Processing(Experimental), Optical Memories, Optical Waveguides, Resonators, Filters

Prof. Anirban Mitra

Professor

anirban.mitra[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

1332285652

Lasers and Photonics, Plasmonics, Optical Properties of Wide Band Gap Semiconductors

Prof. Anjani Tiwari

Assistant professor

anjani[at]ph.iitr.ac.in

Physics Department

01332-285772

Disorder Systems, Random Lasers, Quantum Optics & Nano-Photonics, Light Interaction with Nanostructured media, Optically Tunable Microcavities