Biosketch / Curriculum Vitae

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Employment History

Jun 2023 – Present
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Apr 2019 – Jun 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Jul 2018 – Apr 2019
Assistant Professor, School of Physics & Materials Science
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India
Oct 2017 – Jun 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow  Max-Planck Research Fellow
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter
Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Dietrich
Feb 2017 – Sep 2017
Aug 2010 – Dec 2010
Postdoctoral Researcher & Research Associate
School of Physical Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sanjay Puri
Apr 2013 – Dec 2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow  Weizmann Fellow  PBC Fellow
Department of Chemical Physics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Itamar Procaccia
Weizmann Fellow (Apr–Sep 2013)  ·  PBC Fellowship for Outstanding Postdoctoral Researchers from China and India, Council for Higher Education, Israel (Oct 2013 – Dec 2016)
Jan 2011 – Dec 2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow  Max-Planck Research Fellow
Condensed Matter Theory Group
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kurt Binder

Academic Qualifications

Aug 2004 – Jul 2010
Ph.D., School of Physical Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Thesis: "Fluid Mixtures at Surfaces: Kinetics of Enrichment, Spinodal Decomposition, and Dewetting"
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sanjay Puri
UGC Junior Research Fellow (Aug 2004 – Jul 2006)  ·  UGC Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2006 – Jul 2009)
Aug 2002 – May 2004
M.Sc. in Physics, School of Physical Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Project: "Designing of Susceptometer and Measurement of Paramagnetic Susceptibility of Rare Earth Compounds"
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ashok Kumar Rastogi
G. Parthasarathi Endowment Fellow, JNU (Aug 2002 – May 2004)
Aug 1999 – May 2002
B.Sc. in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry
University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, India
Project: "Designing of Common Emitter Amplifier"
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Chandra Mohan Bhandari