About me
I'm a simple girl born and brought up in a middle-class family. My home town is Chandannagar, near the Ganges river in West Bengal, India. I'm privileged enough to have enormous support from my family to pursue higher education and follow my dreams.
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My life motto is that with correct motivation and proper exposure, anyone can make a meaningful contribution to the nation and be confident in their life.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics, Multiple Exciton Generation, Transition Metal Dichalcogenide, Quantum Dots, Exciton and Free Carrier Dynamics, Defect-assisted Recombination
Employment
May 2025-present
Chanakya Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area: High performance and high-precision Faraday and Kerr spectroscope for 2D quantum materials: Development of atomically thin optical isolators.
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Institute: High-precision Magneto-Optics Lab, IISER Pune
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Advisor: Dr. Ashish Arora, Department of Physics, IISER Pune
Nov 2024-Feb 2025
Junior Research Fellow
Research Area: Quantum Particle Correlations and Developing Photonic Devices in Low Dimensional Metal Halide Perovskites
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​Institute: Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics Lab, IISER Bhopal​
Advisor: Prof. Adarsh K. V., Department of Physics, IISER Bhopal
Education
2019 - 2024
Integrated Ph.D. (Ph.D.)
2016 - 2019
Integrated Ph.D. (MS)
2013 - 2016
BSc. in Physics
Institute: Hooghly Mohsin College, University of Burdwan, West Bengal
Awarded: 2016
Percentage: 68.87
Research Area: Ultrafast exciton dynamics and third-order nonlinear optical response of semiconductors
Thesis Title: Strong Light-matter Interaction in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and
Their Hybrid Structures with Metal Nanoclusters
Institute: Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics Lab, IISER Bhopal
Supervisor: Prof. Adarsh K. V., Department of Physics, IISER Bhopal
Research Area: Topological Insulator and Magnetism
Thesis Title: Investigating Magnetic Properties in Chiral Helimagnetic Cr1/3NbS2
Institute: Crystal Growth Lab, IISER Bhopal
Supervisor: Prof. Ravi Prakash Singh, Department of Physics, IISER Bhopal
Awarded: May 2019
CGPA: 8.72/10 (Department rank-6 among all integrated Ph.D.)
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants
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2024: International Travel Support (ITS) approved by the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India for attending Advanced Photonic Congress 2024, Quebec, Canada that provides to and fro economic class air-fare, airport tax, visa fees, and conference registration fee.
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2023: Winner of Saransh: 3 min Thesis Presentation 2023 in the Physical\Mathematical Science category, conducted by the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS). (Link).
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2023: KVRSS Research Award 2023 in the Physical Science category at the 23rd KVRSS Annual Research Award by Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society. (Link).
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2023: Financial assistantship from FAAC scheme, IISER Bhopal, for attending IUMRS-ICAM & ICMAT 2023 Meeting, Singapore.
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2022: Madhya Pradesh (M.P.) Young Scientist Award in Physical Science category at the 37th M.P. Young Scientist Congress (MPYSC). (Link)
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2022: Distinguished Student (DS) Travel Grant for attending the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA (March 14-18, 2022). (Attended virtually).
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2021: Incubic/Milton Chang Presenter Grant for delivering a poster presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, California, USA. Only 31 students all over the world have received it. (Link). Held virtually due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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2020: Incubic/Milton Chang Presenter Grant for delivering an oral presentation at CLEO, San Jose, California, USA. (Held virtually). Only 165 students all over the world have received it.
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2013-2016: Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (DST-INSPIRE) Fellowship, Govt of INDIA.
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2013-2014: Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students from Govt. of INDIA for securing 236 ranks out of more than 1 million candidates for West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary examination.