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Ranjit Nanda

Principal Investigator
Department of Physics

Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Topological Materials, Advanced Magnetic Materials, Catalysis and Surface Science, Energy Materials

Shantanu Mukherjee

Co-Principal Investigator
Department of Physics

Unconventional superconductivity, Magnetism, Metal insulator transition, Strongly correlated electronic systems, Topological insulators and superconductors.

Tarak Patra

Co-Principal Investigator
Chemical Engineering

High Throughput Materials Design, Soft and Nano Materials, Molecular Simulations and Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and AI

Yamijala S. R. K. C. Sharma

Co-Principal Investigator
Chemistry Engineering

Application of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) methods in organic photovoltaic materials and plasma-assisted catalysis, Next-generation energy storage materials such as Ca-ion batteries, Li-S batteries, etc., Understanding the degradation of water pollutants such as Perfluoroalkyl substances.,

Satyesh Kumar Yadav

Co-Principal Investigator
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Physics and chemistry of materials from first-principles electronic structure modeling, First-principles thermodynamics Rational design of materials, Atomic structure modeling of materials using quantum mechanics derived potentials, Mapping electronic and atomic structure to properties of materials, Understanding structure, property, and

SOORAJ KUNNIKURUVAN

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry

Interfacial Chemistry with applications to energy storage and renewable energy production, Energy storage materials, and Catalysis

Rohit Batra

Assistant Professor
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Research interest lies in the area of combining computational and data-driven methods to design new materials. He has expertise in first-principles electronic structure methods, molecular dynamics simulations, and many machine learning based techniques, particularly geared towards the general field of chemical and materials science.