Akshay Singh
Assistant Professor’ 2020
aksy@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include all that is on this website, including optical ultrafast spectroscopy and material synthesis. Also interested in physics, books, music and exercising.

Sharad Kumar Yadav
Postdoctoral Fellow’ 2023
sharadkumary@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include 2D material synthesis & their heterostructure, ion transport, optoelectronics, renewable energy. Also interested in ancient history, meditation, movies, cricket

Ajit Kumar Dash
PhD student’ 2019
ajitdash@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include Defect and strain engineering of 2D Materials for single photon emitter applications, Exciton physics in 2D moire heterostructures. Also interested in playing cricket, and cooking delicious dishes.

Manvi Verma
Int. PhD student’ 2019
manviverma@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include 2D materials & their heterostructures, material synthesis, electron microscopy. Also interested in music and dancing.

Mainak Mondal
Int. PhD student’ 2019
mainakm@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include 0ptical microscopy and dynamics of excitons in moire heterostructures. Also interested in movies, music and travel.  

Keerthana S Kumar
PhD DST-INSPIRE fellow’ 2020
keerthanas@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include Experimental condensed matter, Two dimensional materials, Material synthesis. Also interested in Reading, Writing , Music, Drama, Dance, Art& craft.

Abhishek Jangid
Int PhD student’ 2021
abhishekj@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include the synthesis of 2D vdW materials and their heterostructures. Also interested in Gym, Music, Playing Frisbee and Cooking.

Hardeep
Int PhD student’ 2021
hardeep1@iisc.ac.in
Research interest include optical properties of 2D in-plane anisotropic materials. Also interested in reading books, traveling new places and spending time with nature.

Vivek Kumar
Int PhD student’ 2022
vivekkumar15@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include 2D materials (magnetic & TMDC) & their heterostructures, material synthesis and characterisation, and playing around with electronics. Also interested in books, coding, and web series.

Ranju
Int PhD student’ 2022
ranju2021@iisc.ac.in
Research interests include understanding the microscopic phenomenon at atomic scales in 2D TMDs by devising them into heterostructures using ultrafast optical spectroscopies. Also interested in sketching, listening music, reading books, cooking.

Pawni
summer intern (2022);
Current position: BS-MS student at IISER Kolkata

Pushpraj Prasad
Junior Research Fellow
November 2021 to April 2022
Current position: PhD student at University of California, Irvine

Sandeep Jajjara
Junior Research Fellow
November 2021 to April 2022
Current position: Project Assistant, CENSE at IISc

Hariharan Swaminathan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Feb’2021- Jan’23
Current position: Guest Lecturer, Aringnar Anna Government Arts College, Namakkal, Tamilnadu