News Highlights

• Cheers to Kritika for successfully defending her thesis. 

• Prof. Bert Hecht from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, visited IISER Thiruvananthapuram as a part of our UKIERI-SPARC collaborative project and delivered a series of lectures over a few days.

• Congratulations to Sraboni on successfully defending her thesis.

• Prof. S. Ravi P. Silva, Interim Director - Institute for Sustainability (IfS), Director - Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), and Head of Nano Electronics Centre, University of Surrey, UK, visited IISER Thiruvananthapuram and delivered a wonderful lecture as a part of our UKIERI-SPARC collaborative project.

• Congratulations to Sruthi for securing a collaborative Ph.D. position with the University of  Twente and the University of Muenster

• Cheers to Jerin for securing a Ph.D. position in the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden

• ​Congratulations to Namitha, Sruthi, Avinash, Jerin, and Gokul for completing their master's projects, and best wishes for their bright future

• We are proud to share that Sraboni has received the 2025 EPS-QEOD/Young Minds Best Student Presentation Award

• Congratulations to Sraboni on receiving the EPS-QEOD student travel grant for attending CLEO Europe 2025

• We are proud to share that Prof. Joy Mitra was invited to deliver this year’s prestigious Raja Ramanna Lecture (2025), organized at JNCASR

• We are pleased to welcome Dr. Arup Sarkar to our group as a Research academic staff

• We are delighted to welcome Satyam Kumar Ravi to our group as a doctoral student

• Congratulations to Harikrishnan on securing a post-doctoral position at Sapienza University of Rome

• Prof. Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Director, Surrey Ion Beam Center, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, UK, visited IISER Thiruvananthapuram to deliver a lecture series as a part of our UKIERI-SPARC collaborative project between IISER TVM and the University of Surrey.

• Congratulations to Sraboni on receiving the best oral presentation award in OPTOin-2024 (XLVII OSI Symposium) 

• Kudos to Arun for being selected for the 2024 Student Leadership Program in Denver, Colorado!

• Congratulations to Sraboni on receiving the SERB ITS grant.

• Cheers to Arun for being shortlisted for the 2024 Seigman International School on Laser at Stanford University, sponsored by OPTICA.

• Congratulations to Arijit on securing a post-doctoral position at J.Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry.

• Received SPARC-UKIERI grant to Functionalize the next-gen 2D materials using Ion Irradiation.

• Received SERB - CRG grant to investigate the optoelectronic and ENZ effects of transparent conducting oxides and polymers.

• Congratulations on Kritika's and Shashwatha's paper being published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

• Congratulations to Harikrishnan on successfully defending his thesis.

• Received STARS Grant to investigate Excitons in TMDC.