Research Experience
Jan, 2016- Jan, 2018
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA)-Grenoble, France
Ab-initio study of role of defects on thermal conductivity of thermoelectric and photovoltaic, LED materials.
Co-developer of thermal conductivity code of our group -almaBTE (www.almabte.edu).
Interdisplinary Center for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Main focus on development of tight binding potential for thermal conductivity calculation in nano-structures of Si.
July, 2015-Dec, 2015
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Nov, 2011-June, 2015
Max Planck Ph.D. Fellow
Max Planck Research School IMPRS-SurMat, MPIE, Düsseldorf and ICAMS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Ab-initio thermal transport in thermoelectric materials. Development of simplified models for computation of thermal properties in SiGe random alloys.
Education
2011 - 2015
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2009 - 2011
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M.Sc. in Electronic Science
Department of Electronic Science, University of Pune, India
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Ph.D. in Physics
ICAMS, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
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2006 - 2009
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B.Sc. in Electronic Science
Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Bhopal, India
2006
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2004
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Higher Secondary
Bhel Shiksha Niketan (C.B.S.E. Board), Jhansi, India
Senior Secondary
Bhel Shiksha Niketan (C.B.S.E. Board), Jhansi, India
Awards
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Ph.D. fellowship from Max Planck Society, IMPRS-SurMat in Nov,2011.
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Fellowship by IPAM, UCLA to participate in long program on ‘Materials for sustainable Energy’ in UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A. in 2013.
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Awarded European Computing Grant: PRACE preparatory Access, with 50000 hours of computing time (Principal Investigator).
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C-DAC (Indian supercomputing facility) computing time granted: ~2Million core hours for a year.
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University of Pune Gold Medalist in Master Degree (M.Sc) with GPA 5.84/6 (‘O’ grade).
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1st rank in All India Entrance (National Level) for M.Sc in University for Pune, India.
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University (State level) Gold Medalist in Bachelor Degree (B.Sc) with 81%.
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Distinction in 12th standard securing 84% and in 10th standard securing 85.4% marks.
Teaching and Supervising
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Numerical Computing course for M.Tech. in Modelling and Simulation (two semester long core course with extensive computing emphasis), CMS, S P Pune University, India.
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Vector Calculus course for M.Tech. in Modelling and Simulation, CMS, S P Pune University, India.
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Teaching Assistant for the course ‘Application and Implementation of Electronic Structure methods’ in ICAMS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (2014).
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Supervised 1 Masters thesis from University of Oslo, Norway in ICAMS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (resulted in the publication Physical Review B, 95, 045202 (2017)).
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Supervised 1 visiting Ph.D. student from Tokyo University, Japan in CEA-Grenoble, France (Summer 2017).
International Journal Reviewer
1. Science
2. Physical Review Letters
3. Physical Review B
4. Journal of Materials Chemistry A
5. ​Physica Solidi Status (b)
6. RSC Advances