Experience

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

PhD in Physics

Experimental and theoretical research in phototaxis, microbial motility, active matter and nonequilibrium dynamics using high-speed microscopy, quantitative image analysis and mathematical modeling.

• High-speed imaging, particle tracking and quantitative image analysis
• Bright-field and fluorescence microscopy
• Photolithography, soft lithography and microfluidic-device fabrication
• BSL-2 laboratory practices, LB and TAP media preparation, and microbial culture techniques
• Active Brownian particle modeling and Fokker–Planck equations

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

Project Associate

Experimental investigation of the dynamics of the first-order metal–insulator transition in vanadium sesquioxide.

• Low-noise, phase-sensitive lock-in measurements
• Investigation of first-order metal–insulator transition dynamics in V₂O₃
• Operation of 4 K helium-cooled and liquid-nitrogen cryostats
• Design and fabrication of a custom cryostat for above-room-temperature metal–insulator-transition measurements
• Vacuum and cryogenic techniques
• Instrument control and data acquisition using MATLAB

MS Thesis

Development of instrumentation and measurement techniques for experiments involving high pulsed magnetic fields and superconducting materials.

• Development of a 35 T high pulsed-magnetic-field facility
• Design and fabrication of a 15 T pulsed-magnet coil
• Four-terminal electrical measurements
• Contactless measurements in superconductors
• Cryogenic techniques and cryostat wiring
• Instrument interfacing and data acquisition using LabVIEW

BS–MS Academic Projects

Selected interdisciplinary academic projects completed during the BS–MS program.

• Experimental project: Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria