Biography
I started as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow in the Quantum Materials Dynamics group with Prof. Alessandro Lunghi at the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in October 2024.
I completed my Bachelor"s degree in Chemistry with honours from Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India in 2012. I finished my Master"s degree with a specialization in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Calcutta (Rajabazar Science College, Kolkata) in 2014. Then I moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai in 2015 to conduct my Ph.D. research with Prof. Gopalan Rajaraman at the Department of Chemistry. My research interests during my PhD include the investigation of Spin-Hamiltonian parameters in single-molecule magnets containing transition metal and lanthanide coordination complexes using ab initio (CASSCF/MRPT2) and DFT methodologies. In 2021, I joined the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral researcher to work with Prof. Laura Gagliardi. There, I explored spin transition properties of a binuclear transition metal complex, excited states of actinide systems using multi-configuration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT) and also investigated the band structure in redox-active 2D/3D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) using periodic DFT. After that, I spent about a year at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany from November 2023-September 2024 to join the Organic Electronics group with Prof. Denis Andrienko as a Postdoctoral Researcher where I explored the photoluminescent properties and hole transport properties in perovskite systems using DFT.
Recognition
Awards and Honours
Marie Sk"odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship