The department of physics currently consists of six faculty members. Apart from teaching basic physics courses to undergraduate and post-graduate students, the faculty members are also actively involved in research in frontier areas and in guiding Ph.D students.
Faculty
Dr. Anushree P Khandale
Assistant Professor
Ph.D: Nagpur University, India. Postdoc-University of St Andrews, UK, Nagpur University+Cambridge University, UK. (Indo-UK Project)
Research Interests: Nano-structured materials for electrochemical device applications (Solid Oxide Fuel cells, Alkaline Fuel Cells, Sensors etc.) , Tailoring material's micro-structures , Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy , Materials Science.
E-mail: anushri.khandale@iiitdm.ac.in | Ph: 044 2747 6365 | Room No: 219I
Dr. Y. Ashok Kumar Reddy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D: Sri Venkateswara University, India & BK21+ Post-doctoral Fellow at KAIST, South Korea
Research Interests: Metal-based nanostructures for photodetector devices, Metal oxide-based IR bolometers for defence systems, and Nanostructured materials for gas sensor devices
E-mail: akreddy@iiitdm.ac.in | Ph: +91-44 2747 6369 | Room No: 119-L, Laboratory Complex (North-East)
Dr.Debolina Misra
Assistant Professor
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Postdoctoral fellow - IIT Madras
Research Interests: Materials Modelling from first-principles electronic structure calculations , Computational catalysis , Rational design of materials for sustainability , Defects in oxides , Strongly correlated oxides , Optical and magnetic properties of materials
E-mail: debolinam@iiitdm.ac.in | Room No: 219-K
Dr. Naveen Kumar
Associate Professor
Ph.D: IIT Delhi
Research Interests: Fiber Optics , Solar Thermal Energy Applications , Renewable energy applications
E-mail: nkumar@iiitdm.ac.in | Ph: +91-44-27476354
Dr. Sadhu Sai Pavan Prashanth
Assistant Professor
Ph.D: Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. Postdoctoral fellow - Indian Institute of Technology Madras & University of Montpellier, France (Indo-French CEFIPRA Project)
Research Interests: Multifunctional Materials, Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Composites and Thin Films, Correlated Oxides for Optoelectronic and Spintronic Applications
E-mail: saiprashanth@iiitdm.ac.in | Room No: 219-B
Dr. Tapas Sil
Associate Professor
Ph.D: Visva-Bharati
Research Interests: Giant Resonances of Nuclei , Relativistic Mean Field Theory in Nuclear Structure , Properties of Hot Nuclei , Dynamics of Anharmonic Oscillators , Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
E-mail: tapassil@iiitdm.ac.in | Ph: +91-44-27476347 | Room No: 308H
Dr. Vivek Kumar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Research Interests: Nanostructured materials for energy conversion and storage: Supercapacitors, Photovoltaics; Multifunctional devices; Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy. , Biophysics: Biomolecule-metal hybrid systems; Electron transfer in metalloproteins; SERS.
E-mail: vivek@iiitdm.ac.in | Ph: Office: 044-2747-6388 | Room No: 219 - H (Laboratory Block)
PhD Scholars
Completed PhD Scholars
- K Ramachandran
- Ashish kumar
- Manimegalai K
Research Areas
- Fiber Optics
- Solar Thermal Energy Applications
- Renewable energy applications
- Materials for Electrochemical Device Applications (Solid Oxide Fuel cells, Alkaline Fuel Cells, Sensors etc.)
- Tailoring material's micro-structures
- Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
- Materials Modelling from first-principles electronic structure calculations
- Computational catalysis
- Rational design of materials for sustainability
- Giant Resonances of Nuclei
- Relativistic Mean Field Theory in Nuclear Structure
- Properties of Hot Nuclei
- Nonlinear dynamics