Physics PhD Graduates

S.No Name Year of Graduation Thesis Title Post-PhD/Current Position
1 Mohd Ali 2025 Aspects of black hole through the lens of von Neumann algebras Postdoc at ICTS Bengaluru
2 Suraj Lakhchaura 2025 Synthesis and Optoelectronic properties of ultrathin Bi2O2Se Nanosheets Institute post doc, IIT Kanpur
3 Shruti Chakravarty 2025 Investigating correlated charge, lattice and spin degrees of freedom in layered perovskite ruthenates Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
4 Arijit Chatterjee 2025 Investigations on Quantum Correlations and Open Quantum System Dynamics Through Nuclear Spins Postdoc at Laboratoire de Physique, ENS de Lyon, France
5 Sarika Lohkna 2025 First Principles Modeling of photo(electro-)catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and methane
6 Manisha Rajput 2025 Defect-Engineered MoS2 for Brain-Inspired Computing and Optoelectronic Applications Postdoc at Tempera University, Finland
7 Kushal H Patel 2025 Magneto-Optical Trapping of Strontium Atoms for Optical Atomic Clock Co-founder and Chief of Eng. 'GDQLabs' - A startup
8 Korak Biswas 2025 Experiments on enhancement of inter-stage transfer efficiency in laser cooling of strontium atoms Co-founder and Chief of Tech. 'GDQLabs' - A startup
9 Jitendra Joshi 2025 NMR Investigations and Feedback Estimation of Ergotropy: Applications in Quantum Battery and Entanglement Certification Researcher at CDAC, Pune
10 Arnab Laha 2025 Search for vector-like leptons at CMS and prospects at the HL-LHC Postdoc(ATLAS), University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
11 Nashra Pistawala 2025 Crystal growth, magnetic and thermal properties of quasi two-dimensional quantum magnets Awaiting thesis defense
12 Deepak Roy 2025 Strongly correlated oxides: A novel platform for 2D magnetism Model Risk Management, Morgan Stanley
13 Rahul Chand 2025 Optothermally Driven Colloidal Matter: Activity and Guided Motion Postdoc at Tempera University, Finland
14 Alpana 2025 Energy measurement of hadron showers in the CMS HGCAL using Graph Neural Networks and a new physics search with photons at the CMS experiment Postdoc, University of Minnesota, USA (Based at CERN)
15 Umashankar Rajput 2025 Unveiling the nature of 2D boron at atomic scale Project staff at NCL, Pune
16 Vaibhav Walve 2025 Understanding the correlated orders in layered materials. NPDF recipient, postdoc at NCL, Pune
17 Bhumika Kansal 2024 Search for Supersymmetry in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with at least one photon, jets and missing transverse momentum Principal Engineer (Data Scientist) at Global foundries, Bengaluru
18 Aanjaneya Kumar 2024 Gated first passage processes Joint Post-doc at Santa Fe Institute and Princeton University, USA
19 Saurabh Pant 2024 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories without anti-commuting variables Postdoctoral fellow, Fudan University, Shanghai
20 Tamaghna Chowdhury 2024 Modulation of optoelectronic properties of layered two-dimensional materials by strain, twist and dielectric engineering Postdoc at CNRS IPCMS and ISIS, Strasbourg
21 Priya Batra 2024 Characterization and Control of Quantum Dynamics: Computational Methodology Developments and NMR Demonstrations Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech
22 Ankit Kumar 2024 Half-Heusler thermelectrics: studying new paradigms via defects, entropy, and band engineering Research Associate, University of Warwick
23 Shiv sagar Maurya 2024 Floquet Engineering in an Atom-Optics Kicked Rotor Post Doctoral Researcher, Physicalisch Technische Bundesantalt, Germany
24 Pragya Kushwaha 2024 Non-equilibrium assembly and phase behavior of colloidal particles in active liquids Postdoc at University of Buffalo
25 Sayan Saha 2024 Novel bayesian inferences from the cosmic microwave background Postdoc at Northeastern University, Boston
26 Imrankhan Mulani 2024 Charge Density Waves in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Currently postdoc at Howard+Northeastern University, USA
27 Abhishek Mehta 2023 Quantum Field Theory at Strong Coupling Postdoc at APCTP, Korea
28 Surya Pratap S Deopa 2023 Viscoelasticity of single folded protein Post-doc at JILA, USA
29 Dipti 2023 Study of 1D Photonic crystals incorporated with thermochromic materials for energy efficient smart window applications Post Doc, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
30 Vineet Kr. Pandey 2023 Computational study of thermoelectric properties of two Heusler alloys and a wide gap semiconductor Assistant Prof., Govt. Naveen College, Janakpur
31 Abhishek Anand 2023 Models and methods extending the composite fermion theory Assistant Prof, Jawahar Lal Nehru Govt College, Manali, HP
32 Debesh Bhattacharjee 2023 Characterizing Magnetic Clouds Associated with Solar Coronal Mass Ejections through in situ Observations Postdoc, Glasgow University
33 Navita Navita 2023 New and innovative approaches for enhancing the repeatability and thermoelectric performance of Ag2X (X = S, Se, and Te) and SnTe Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
34 Bhagyashri Bhat 2023 Dichalcogen Semiconductors for Optoelectronic and Spintronic Applications
35 Chandan Singh 2023 Superconductivity Magnetism and their Interplay in two-dimension Postdoc at Uppsala University, Sweden
36 Debarshi Mitra 2023 Theoretical models of emergent structure and organization of (bio-) polymeric systems 1. Scientist at Vantage Research, Chennai 2.Joining as Group leader in Leibniz Institute, Dresden Germany from June 2025
37 Projjwal Kanjilal 2023 Investigation of ground states of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic trap Postdoc, TIFR Hyderabad, India
38 V. R. Krithika 2023 Exploring nonlinear effects in spin-systems using NMR Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Montpellier, France
39 Vrinda Narayanan 2023 Study of Optoelectronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials and Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures through Dielectric Engineering Process Engineer at Global foundries, Bengaluru
40 Gokul MA 2023 Synthesis and Fabrication of Heterostructures of Novel Semiconductors for Device Application Postdoc at University of Southern California
41 Suddhasattwa Mandal 2023 Inter-atomic/molecular decay in doped helium nanodroplets induced by extreme-ultraviolet radiation Post-doc fellow at Paul-Scherrer-Institut, Villingen, CH
42 Sumit Srivastava 2023 Fragmentation dynamics of small molecules subject to collisions with slow highly charged ions Post-doc fellow at Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, Canen FR
43 Dibyata Raut 2023 Investigation of structure-property relationship in some low dimensional nickelates Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara.
44 Aswathi Mohan 2023 First principles investigation of Ti2C MXene as catalyst and support in CO2 activation and CO oxidation reactions Postdoc at IIT Kanpur
45 Unmesh Mondal 2023 Nuclear Quantum Effects in Hydrogen-bonded Systems: A Path Integral Molecular Dynamics Study Postdoc at the Abdus Salam ICTP. Associate Editor at Springer Nature Group
46 Ajith V. J. 2022 Translational Diffusion of Tracer molecules in nanoconfined water Post doc at Texas, Austin, USA
47 Kumar Saurabh 2022 Study of half-Heusler and related structures as high-temperature thermoelectrics Reserach Scientist, CUMI Minerals, R&D group
48 Vikhyaat Ahlawat 2022 Mechanics of single flexible polymer chains using AFM nanorheology Post doc at University of Illinois, Chicago
49 Mohit Kumar Singh 2022 Study of opto-electrical properties of excitonic heterostructures and measurement of spatio-temporal coherence using a single interferometer Post doc at IIT-Mumbai
50 Anweshi Dewan 2022 Transition metal oxide-based electrochromic materials for energy-saving fenestration and smart energy storage devices Assitant Scientific Researcher, ICSI Romania, Post Doc at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
51 Rayan Chakraborty 2022 Dielectric Confinement, Structure and Luminesence of 2D Layered Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskites Post doc at Duke University
52 Gautam Sharma 2022 First Principles Investigation of Thermoelectrics Materials Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
53 Kanika Kohli 2022 First Principles Study of Thermally Activated Processes on Transition Metal Surfaces
54 Angira Rastogi 2022 Inclusive nonresonant multilepton probes of new phenomena Postdoc (ATLAS), LBNL, USA
55 Naveen Nishad 2022 Numerical Studies of Non-equilibrium Dynamics in ℤ3 Chiral Clock Model Postdoc scholar, Technion, Israel
56 Shubham Pandey 2022 Performance of High Granularity Calorimeter prototypes for the CMS HL-LHC upgrade in beam test experiments at CERN Postdoc, SuperCDMS Expt, University of Minnesota, USA
57 Mayur Shende 2022 Relativistic Outflows from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their connection to Accretion Disks Postdoc, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
58 Vandana Sharma 2022 Plasmon assisted optothermal control and manipulation of colloids and fluids Post doc, location to decide
59 Chetna Taneja 2022 Plasmonic Nanowire Photonics: Light Propagation and Field Enhancement Post doc, St Andrews University, UK
60 Shailendra Kumar Chaubey 2022 Optical cavities coupled to 2D materials: Wavevector and Polarization Studies Post doc, Glasgow University, UK
61 Sushant Saryal 2022 Universal bounds on fluctuations in thermal machines and thermal transport junctions Postdoc at Princeton University
62 Sunny Tiwari 2022 Molecular Plasmonics: Directional Optical Antennas and Single Molecule SERS Post doc, Oxford University, UK
63 Diptabrata Paul 2022 Light-Matter Interaction with Focused Optical Fields: Directional Scattering and Dynamics of Active Colloids Post doc, Perter Debye Institute, Germany
64 Dhanya S. Menon 2021 AdS Instability and Nonlinear Perturbations in Confined Geometries Not known
65 Jyoti Yadav 2021 Nanomechanics of Biomaterials using Atomic Force Microscope College teacher in Harayana
66 Rajesh Mondal 2021 Investigation of polar and magnetic ordering in Transition Metal Oxide thin film heterostructures Post Doc @ Technical University of Denmark, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
67 Charu Garg 2021 Exploring structure-propert relationships in layered perskite iridates Physicist, Hilite Germany GmbH, Nuertingen, Germany
68 Srilatha Arra 2021 Optical properties and photocatalytic activity of 2D materials Postdoc at University of L'Aquila, Italy
69 Arnab Sen 2021 Dissociation Dynamics of Molecules Subject to Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses Post-doc fellow at Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, DE
70 Deepak Sharma 2021 Orientation Dependence of Ionization in Ion-Molecule Collisions Post-doc fellow at Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg, DE
71 Soham Pal 2021 NMR investigation of Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Correlations Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK
72 Jay Mangaokar 2021 Bose-Einstein Condensate Based Atom-Optics Delta-Kicked Rotor For Precision Measurements Earlier a Post Doctoral Researcher, Physicalisch Technische Bundesantalt, Germany, now a Chanakya fellow at IISER Pune and also a Co-founder and Director, 'QuPrayog' - a startup
73 Sayali Bhatkar 2021 Asymptotic conservation laws for loop level soft photon theorems Postdoc at Groningen University, Netherlands, Postdoc at TIFR, Mumbai
74 Shatruhan Singh Rajput 2021 Viscoelasticity of single biopolymers using Atomic Force Micrroscopy Post doc at Harvard, currently post doc at Cambridge University, UK
75 Arindam Bhattacharjee 2021 Asymptotic symmetries and dual theories of (2+1) dimensional (super)gravity theories Postdoc at Warsaw University, Poland, Postdoc at HRI, Prayagraj
76 Ankita Niranjan 2021 Quantum State Control of Two Interacting Rydberg atoms Quantitative Analyst, JP Morgan, Mumbai
77 Yashwant Chougale 2021 Atomic Chains with Rydberg excitations: Bose-Hubbard parameters to correlation dynamics Quantitative Analyst, JP Morgan, Mumbai
78 Niharika Joshi 2020 First principles investigations of layered materials and their interaction with support National Postdoctoral fellow at National Chemical Laboratory
79 Namrata Pattanayak 2020 Exploring Remanent Magnetization in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction Driven Weak Ferromagnets Postdoc at Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, Parma , Italy .
80 Chetan Vishwakarma 2020 Laser cooling and trapping of strontium atoms for experiments towards precision measurements and frequency metrology Post Doctoral Researcher, Physicalisch Technische Bundesantalt, Germany
81 Avirup De 2020 Interplay between spin, heat, and charge currents in strongly correlated systems Post-Doctoral Fellow, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
82 Aakanksha Kapoor 2020 Encapsulation of Magnetic Oxides inside Carbon Nanotubes Assistant Prof. at department of Physics, SRM university , Sonepat, Delhi
83 Deepak Kumar Sharma 2020 Interaction of angular momentum carrying optical beams with a single nanowire Asst. Prof. (offered), IISER Tvm
84 Amit Bhunia 2020 Studying the Physics of Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Heterostructures Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Post-Dpc @ IIT-Ropar
85 Tejal Agarwal 2020 Bacterial chromosome organization using bead-spring polymer models 1. Development, Monitoring and Evaluation office, NITI Aayog, New Delhi. 2.Office of Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt of India.
86 Chinmayee Mishra 2020 Dipole Orientation Induced Effects in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates Early career fellow, IIT Gandhinagar; Post-doc, OIST, Japan
87 Aditee Prabhakar Rane 2020 Search for Supersymmetry in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with jets, b-jets and missing transverse momentum Assistant Professor of Physics Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute, Pune
88 C. S. Sudheer Kumar 2020 Exploring quantum foundations by NMR: Quantum correlations and measurements Entrepreneur in Bengaluru
89 Subrahmanyam Sappati 2019 First Principles Study of Role of Nuclear Quantum Effects on Properties of HIV/Cancer Inhibitor Ellipticine in Protic Solvents and Descriptors for Predicting Efficient Dye-sensitized Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Research Associate, IISER Trivandrum; Visiting Researcher, RRI Bangalore; Tenure track faculty, Department of Physical Chemistry, Gdansk university of technology, Gdansk, Poland
90 Rabindranath Bag 2019 Crystal Growth and Properties of some Correlated Metal Oxides Postdoctoral fellow, Duke University
91 Prachi Telang 2019 Tuning the ground state of pyrochlore oxides using chemical pressure Humboldt fellow, University of Augsburg, Germany
92 Vinay Hegde 2019 Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, jets, b-jets, and missing transverse momentum Postdoc CMS Expt, Texas Tech University, USA
93 A. Shweta 2019 Radio Spectral Index Distribution in Galaxy Cluster Radio Halos
94 S. Harshini Tekur 2019 Distribution of level spacing ratios in random matrix theory and chaotic quantum systems : variants and applications Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Prayoga, Bangalore
95 Deepak Khurana 2019 NMR Characterization and Control of Noisy Quantum Systems Quantum control physicist at Qruise, Germany
96 Sumit Sarkar 2019 Ultracold atoms in 1-D optical lattices: experiments towards quantum chaos and atom interferometry Earlier a post doctoral fellow at BM-SYRTE, Paris and now a postdoctoral fellow at University of Amsterdam
97 Gunjan Verma 2019 Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensate in Linear and Non-Linear Regime Postdoctoral fellow at Unviersity of Florence and now a Sceintist, UGC-DAE Consortium for Sceintific Research, Indore
98 Abhijit Pende 2019 Non-local interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates Postdoc, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
99 Mubeena Shaikh 2019 Hierarchical and synergistic self-assembly of wormlike micelle-nanoparticle system : A computational investigation
100 G. Kashyap 2019 Directed complex networks and their structure and dynamics under link deletion
101 Sandip V. George 2019 Nonlinear measures and dynamics from time series data Lecturer at University of Aberdeen
102 S K Rejaul 2019 Exploring Molecule-Metal and Molecule-Topological Insulator Interface at Atomic Scale Currently post doc at NTU, Singapore, previous postdoc position at University of Basel, Switzerland
103 Shishir Sankhyayan 2019 Superclusters and the Void-High Density Region Correlations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
104 Amruta Sadhu 2019 Aspects of linearized perturbations of black holes and flat black strings Lecturer, St. Xavier College (earlier PDF IIT Gandhinagar
105 Soumendra Nath Panja 2019 Magnetic and Polar Properties of some Geometrically Frustrated Transition Metal Oxides Humboldt fellow, University of Augsburg, Germany
106 Anshul Kapoor 2019 Search for vector-like leptons in final states with multiple leptons Senior Data Scientist at Ensono, India (Earlier: Postdoc (CMS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, IHEP, China)
107 Tomin James 2019 Investigating small scale particle acceleration events at the sun and its implications for coronal heating Postdoc, Stanford University
108 Rohit Babar 2019 Defects and magnetism in 2D materials Asst. Prof. SRM University AP
109 Adarsh Bhaskara Vasista 2019 Metal film based micro- and nano- cavities: optical polarization and wavevector studies Asst. Prof. IISER Bhopal
110 Kunal Kothekar 2019 A Search for the Evidence of Type-III Seesaw Mechanism in Multileptonic Final States at the LHC Senior FPGA developer at CesiumAstro, UK (Earlier: Postdoc (DUNE), University of Bristol, UK)
111 Rohit Kumar 2019 Magnetotransport Studies of Iron-Pnictide Superconductors
112 Shubhanshu Chauhan 2019 Search for new phenomena at CMS in the multilepton final state Senior Principal Data Scientist at Eli Lilly and Company, India (Earlier: Postdoc (CMS), University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
113 Nishtha Sachdeva 2018 Dynamics of solar coronal mass ejections: forces that imapct their propagation Research Scientist, University of Michigan
114 Turmoli Neogi 2018 N - Extended Super-BMS3 Algebras and Generalized Gravity Solutions
115 Kajari Gupta 2018 Emergent Dynamics of Slow and Fast Systems on Complex Networks
116 Supratik Sarkar 2018 Trans-Planckian issues & analogue gravity: from BEC to acoustic Black Hole Director, Morgan Stanley (Mumbai)
117 V. S. Anjusha 2018 Spin Architectures for Investigating Quantum Phenomena: NMR and NV Centers in Diamond Quantum Engineer at Quantum Brilliance, Stuttgart, Germany
118 Amandeep 2018 Shear Rheology of nanoconfined liquids Post doc at Tel Aviv, currently Application Scientist at Bruker India
119 Sucheta Majumdar 2018 Symmetries in Gravity and Supergravity in the light-cone gauge Postdoctoral fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Postdoctoral fellow, Lyon, Ecole Normale Superieure
120 Sanku Paul 2018 Chaos, localisation and transport in kicked rotor and its variants S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
121 Srikrishna Shekhar 2018 Algorithms for Improving Sensitivity of Radio Intterferometric Images
122 Nandha Kumar 2018 First Principles investigations of thermally activated processes in Palladium based materials Brain Pool Research Fellow, MTG, Yonsei University, South Korea
123 Sunil Kumar 2017 Towards Distributed Quantum Information processing using Coupling of Neutral Atoms to Plasmonic Nanostructures Postdoctoral fellow at Center for Quantum Technologies, NUS Singapore, now Assistant Professor, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal Central University
124 Indu Kaul 2017 First Principles Investigations of Properties of low dimensional systems and Their Role in Selective Hydrogenation
125 Danveer Singh 2017 Coupled Plasmonic Nanowires: Dual-Channel Fourier Microscopy Studies Asst. Prof., IIT Ropar
126 Ravi Tripathi 2017 Nanophotonics of Organic Molecular Waveguides: Towards Active Optical Antenna Asst Prof., Punjab University
127 Arindam Dasgupta 2016 Localized Optical fields and directional Far-field emissions from Plasmonic Nanojunctions CREOL, USA
128 Madhusudan Ingale 2016 Turbulent density fluctuations in the solar wind Project Scientist, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
129 Snehal M Shekatkar 2016 Structure, Dynamics and Control of Complex Networks Asst Professor, Flame University, Pune
130 Partha Pratim Patra 2016 Plasmofluidic Single-molecule Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering and Dynamic Assembly of Nanostructures KCL, Finland
131 Koushik Karmakar 2016 Disorder in the Quantum Spin Chains Sr2CuO3 and SrCuO2 Postdoc University of Oxford
132 Swathi Hegde 2016 Quantum Simulations with Unitary and Nonunitary Controls: NMR implementations Quantum Control Physicist at Qurise, Germany
133 Mahendraprasad Mali 2016 Aspects of gravitation in the light-cone gauge Postdoctoral fellow (joint): MPI for Gravitational Physics & IISER TVM; Quantitative Researcher, ED&F Man Commodities
134 Abhishek Shukla 2015 Ancilla Assisted Quantum Information Processing: General protocols and NMR implementations Researcher Expert at IMO-IMOMEC, University of Hasselt, Belgium
135 Arun Babu 2015 Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun - Propagation and Near Earth Effects Assistant Professor, Cochin University
136 Arthur Varghese 2014 Role of Fluid Dynamics in Nanofabrication Asst. Prof. St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Post Doc @ IISC-Bangalore
137 Padmashri Patil 2014 Synthesis of Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Study of Its Optical Properties and Its Application in Sensitized Solar Cells Assistant Professor, NMIMS, New Mumbai, Post doc @IIT-Mumbai
138 Kanika Bansal 2014 Electrical and Optical Investigations of the Condensed Matter Physics of Junction Diodes under Charge Carrier Injection Research Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Post Doc at US Army Research Laboratory and Columbia University, SUNY Buffalo, University of Maryland
139 AVR Murthy 2014 Photophysical properties of single semiconductor nano-structures using FCS Post -doc in France, currently faculty in DIAT, Pune
140 Resmi V 2013 Environmental effects on the dynamics of coupled nonlinear systems
141 Vimal Kishore 2012 Study of dynamical processes on complex networks Asst Professor, Benaras Hindu University
142 Soumya Singha Roy 2012 Nuclear Spins as Quantum Testbeds: Singlet States, Quantum Correlations, and Delayed-Choice Experiments Faculty at University of Southampton, UK.