Das Group of Quantum Matter Theory
TanmoyDas1
Tanmoy Das - PI
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics Indian
Contact:
Email: tnmydas@iisc.ac.in, tnmydas@gmail.com
Phone no:
Past Positions:
Education:
Positions/Education
  • 2015 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science.
  • 2010 – 2015 Adjunct Research Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
  • 2014 – 2015 Senior Research Scientist at Graphene Research Center, NUS, Singapore.
  • 2010 – 2014 Postdoctoral fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA.
  • 2009 – 2010 Postdoctoral fellow at Northeastern University, Boston, MA USA.
  • 2005 – 2009 PhD at Northeastern University, Boston, MA USA.
Awards
  • 2021 Listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists published by Stanford University.
  • 2021 APJ Abdul Kalam HPC Award in Young Researcher by Hewlett-Packard and Intel.
  • 2020 Top cited paper award from the IOP Publishing.
  • 2017 Infosys Young Investigator award
  • 2013 High Impact Science Achievement award in the Early Career from the NERSC supercomputer center at LBNL, Berkeley, USA.
  • 2012 Postdoc Distinguished Performance Award at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.
  • 2012 Best poster at Material Research Science (MRS), San Francisco, USA.
Editorial Board Member and Referee of Journals

Editorial board member Scientific Reports from Nature Publishing Group.
International Journal of Superconductivity from Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

Referee: Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Nature Asia Materials, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Physica B, Physica C, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Europhysics Letters.

Conference/Workshop
Organize
  • Spectroscopies for Novel Superconductors (SNS), India (scheduled in Dec, 2022).
  • Lorentz Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands on ‘Common threats in unconventional superconductors’, February 2017.
  • International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), India on ‘Correlation and disorder in classical and quantum systems’, June 2017.
  • APS March Meeting. Session: Emergent states driven by spin-orbit coupling, Denver, CO, March 2014 [Organized and chaired this invited session].
Special Lecture Series (invited)
  • Topological Phases of Matter - A mini-course at Jawaharlal Nehru University, October 29 November 2, 2018.
Administrative Assistance:
R. Yashaswini
Administrative Assistance:
Contact:
Email: yashaschaarvi@gmail.com
Phone No: +91 80 2293 2010
Current postdocs
RajeshSharma
Rajesh Sharma

Email: sharmarajesh0387@gmail.com

Education: 2014 – 2018 PhD at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India.

Research Interests:  He is interested in DFT and QMC simulation of quantum materials and low-dimensional model systems. He is currently investigating the electronic, magnetic and topological properties of square-octagon superconductors.

Current PhDs
Yogendra
K. B. Yogengra

Email: balayogikale@iisc.ac.in, balayogi.kale@gmail.com

Education: (2012-2016) Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering  from RGUKT, Nuzvid, Andhra Pradesh
Research interests:
He is interested in strongly correlates systems and topology. Presently he is working on Quantum Spin Liquids, focusing mainly  on Kitaev model.

Priyanshi
Priyanshi

Email: priyanshi1@iisc.ac.in

Education: (2013 - 2016) Bachelor of Science (Honors) Physics, University of Delhi, India;
(2016 - 2018) Master of Science Physics, University of Delhi, India.
Research interests:
Priyanshi is presently working on building quantum theory for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.


SumanKarmakar
Suman Karmakar

Email: balayogikale@iisc.ac.in

Education: (2015 - 2018) Bachelor of Science in Physics from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math;
(2018 - 2020) Master of Science in Physics from IIT Kanpur
Research interests:
He is presently studying skyrmion phases in classical and quantum spin models on different lattices and their twisted geometries.
Former postdocs
AnanayaGhatak
Ananaya Ghatak (2015-2018)

Email: gananya04@gmail.com

Education:  PhD (2015) Banaras hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India “Various Interactions in Quantum Theories”
Research interests: Non-Hermitian quantum theory
Positions:

- 2022-present : Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- 2018-2022: Postdoc at University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands

Former PhD Students
SujayRay
Sujay Ray (PhD 2022)

Email: raysujay91@gmail.com

Education: 2014 BSc from Presidency College, Kolkata

Research interests: Strong correlated electrons, Skyrmions, topological band theory, quantum Monte Carlo method, DMFT, tensor network
Thesis:
“Correlation, superconductivity, and topology in twisted and untwisted layered systems”: pdf
Current  position:
Postdoct at  University of Fribourg, Switzerland

PriyoAdhikary
Priyo Adhikary (PhD 2022)
Email: priyophysics@gmail.com
Education: MSc (2014)  from Indian Institute of   Technology, Kanpur
Research interests:
Theory of superconductivity, Kondo insulator,
Thesis:
“Superconductivity in strongly correlated
systems:
Heavy fermions, Cuprates, Infinite-layer Nickelates”
Current  position:
Postdoc at Indian Institute of Technology, Madrass, India

Former PhD Students
GauravGupta
Gaurav Gupta (PhD 2018)

Email: gkgupta.bhu@gmail.com

Education: BSc (2013) :Benaras Hindu University, Benaras
Research interests: Topological phases of matter, spin-orbit density wave, correlated electron systems, band theory of solids
Thesis:
“ Interplay of Interaction and Topology - From Topological Band Theory to Topological Field Theory”
Positions:
2018- 2022 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel