Lab Head and PI
Dr Srimanta Pakhira
Lab. Head and PI
Associate Professor and Ramanujan Faculty Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ,
Early Career Research, and Ramanujan Faculty Awardee
Discipline of Physics and Discipline of Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS),
Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Chromium Building, 618-1D,
Khandwa Road, Simrol, Indore-453552, India.
Phone No.: +91-731-660-3298 Emails: spakhira@iiti.ac.in
About Dr. Srimanta Pakhira
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PROFESSIONAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore
Simrol Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore, MP, INDIA
October 2023 – Current
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Assistant Professor, Discipline of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore
Simrol Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore, MP, INDIA
August 2019 – October 2023
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Ramanujan Faculty Fellow, Discipline of Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science,
IIT Indore, Simrol Campus, Khandwa Road, Indore, MP, INDIA
January 2018 – Current
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Condensed Matter Theory,
Florida State University (FSU), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
And, Condensed Matter Science, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, FSU, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
December 2015 – January 2018
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley, CA (Affiliated), USA
and, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA
September 2014 – September 2017
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
September 2014 – December 2015
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
and, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA.
August 2013 – September 2014
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Calcutta, India
Postdoctoral Research Theoretical and Computational Physics,
September 2012 – August 2013
EDUCATION
Ph. D.(Sc.) in Materials Science and Physics, 2008-2013
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) and Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Thesis Title: Theoretical Study of Structure, Interaction and Dissociation of van der Waals Complexes
M. Sc. in Physics (First Class), 2006-2008
University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal. India
B. Sc. (Hons) in Physics (First Class), 2003-2006
University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal. India
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONOURS
Early Career Research Award (ECRA) from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. (Principal Investigator– INR 55.0 Lakhs)
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Ramanujan Fellowship (2017) from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, India (Principal Investigator– INR 120.0 Lakhs)
· Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2017), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (AvH) International Post-doctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researcher, Govt. of Germany, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany.
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· Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2014), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Post-doctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researcher, Govt. of Japan, Nagoya University, Japan.