Our Team
Principle Investigator
Dr. Rupak Banerjee
Associate Professor, Physics Discipline
Dr. Rupak Banerjee is  an experimental condensed matter Physicist by training with expertise in the area of "Nanotechnology." Dr. Banerjee obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (University of Calcutta). His doctoral work focused on the ordering, structural properties, and morphology of self-assembled nanostructured materials at surfaces and interfaces. He moved on to Germany as a postdoc where he worked on organic semiconductors employed in photovoltaics and plasmonics. He joined IIT Gandhinagar in July 2015. His area of research includes Nanoscience in energy applications, Physics of Surface and Interfaces, and Material Science.
Ph.D. Students
Manoj Singh
Ph.D. student (Dec 2019- present)
Metal-organic hybrid perovskites for energy applications
Vishakha Takhar
Ph.D.(Dec 2020-present)
Photoelectrochemical and sensing applications of TMDC composites
Prabhat Kumar
Ph.D. (Dec 2022- present)
Piezoelectric properties of perovskite polymer composites
Partha Halder
Ph.D. (July 2023- present)
Thermoelectric properties of low dimensional materials
Lokesh Singh Tanwar
Ph.D. (Dec 2023- present)
Optoelectronic Properties of Halide Perovskites
Alumni
Dr. Utsav
Ph.D. Student (2016-2021)
Presently Postdoc at Atom Scale Device Group, NIST, USA
Thesis Title: Dynamics of self-assembly in silicon-based nanostructures at surfaces and interfaces
Dr. Nisha Hiralal Makani
Ph.D. Student (2018- 2023)
Presently Postdoc at Fayetteville, NC, USA
Thesis Title: Multifunctional Properties of Cesium-based Halide Perovskites
Dr. Vijendra Singh Bhati
Postdoc (2020-2021)
Scientist & Facility Manager at IFFCO Gandhinagar
Research area: Metal Oxide Semiconductor Based Gas Sensors
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Dr. Tufan Paul
Postdoc (2021-2022)
Presently postdoc at INRS, Quebec, Canada
Research area: Halide Perovskites as Multifunctional Materials
Dr. Aditi Sahoo
Research Associate (2021-2022)
Presently at Molecular and Device Physics Laboratory, INRS, EMT Center, Quebec, Canada
Research Area: Ferroelectricity, Piezoelectricity, Structural Phase Transitions, Energy harvesting in Halide Perovskites
Masters Students
Presently pursuing Master's Thesis
Tiyasha Khatua (MSc 2024-25)
Dharam Dev (MSc 2024-25)
Pritam (MSc 2024-25)
Sudipta Das (MSc 2023-24)
Graduated after Master's Thesis
Chetan Barala (MSc 2023-24)
Yogita Parmar (MSc 2023-24)
Zainul Khan (MSc 2022-23)
Hansraj Saini (MSc 2022-23)
Krishna Thory (MSc 2022-23)
Lokesh Tanwar (MSc 2021-22)
Prabhat Kumar (MSc 2021-22)
Dewanshi (MSc 2021-22)
Vinod Kumar (MSc 2020-21)
Kaushal Meena (MSc 2020-21)
Sheela Meena (MSc 2020-21)
Neeraj Meena (MSc 2019-20)
Karishma Gupta (MSc 2018-19)
Nikhil Sharma (MSc 2018-19)
Gourav Kumar (MSc 2017-18)
Samten Bhutia (MSc 2017-18)
Anirban Mandal (MSc 2016-17)