Experience
a) Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Palakkad (July 2017 - till date)
b) Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Patna (Dec 2015 - July 2017)
c) DST INSPIRE Faculty, Department of Physics, IIT Patna ( July 2014 - Dec 2015)
d) Research Associate, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore ( Aug 2013 -July 2014)
e) Assistant System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services (Aug 2006-July 2008)
Research Interests:
a) Electrical- and Magneto- transport studies in 2D materials
b)Transport studies in perovskite and hybrid/heterostructures of perovskite - 2D materials
Academic Year: 2017-18 (@ IIT Palakkad)
PhD Students:
a) Ms. Ranjuna M K
b) Ms. Lidhyal Leena (Joint Supervison: Prof. S. Kasiviswanathan, IIT Madras)
c) Ms. Karuna Kumari (Joint Supervision: Dr. Ajay D Thajur & Dr. Soumya J Ray, IIT Patna)
Junior Research Fellow (DST Project):
a) Mr. Shwetank
FYP Students (Completed):
I). M.Tech
a). Ms. Vaishali Chauhan (2017); Thesis Title: "Thermal Conductivity Measurement in Gold Nanoparticle Decorated H-BN by Raman spectroscopy"
Present Position : PhD Student, IIT Bombay
b) Mr. Anand Kumar Upadhyay (2017); Thesis Tilte: "Design, Simulation and Fabrication of MEMS Based Piezoresistive Accelerometer" (Joint Supevision: Dr. Ajay D Thakur (IIT Patna), and Dr. Ravindra Mukhiya (CSIR-CEERI Pilani))
Present Position: Scientist CSIR-CEERI Pilani
c) Ms. Sonu Bishnoi (2016); Thesis Title: "2D Material/Perovskite hybrid"
Present Position : PhD Student, IIT Patna
d) Ms. Upasana Sahu (2016): Thesis Title: "YBCO-LSMO heterostructure" (Joint Supervision: Dr. Ajay D Thakur (IIT Patna))
Present Position: PhD Student, IIT Delhi
a) Title: Spin Transport in Graphene/LSMO heterostructures
Funding Agency : DST Nanomission
Duration: 3 years
Status: Ongoing
b) Title: DST INSPIRE Faculty
Funding Agency: DST
Duration: 5 years
Status: Ongoing
1. "A Non-toxic Inexpensive Route to Graphene Oxide for Scalable Applications", Pranay Ranjan, Shweta Agarwal, Apurva Sinha, T Rajagopla Rao, Jayakumar Balakrishnan and Ajay D Thakur (under review)
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