Current Position
Assistant Professor at EECS, IISER, Bhopal

Experience
• Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (Apr 2017 – Sep 2018).
• Post Doctoral Fellow, CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, (Mar 2016 – Mar 2017).
• Research Associate, CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, (Aug 2015 – Feb 2016).

Theses Title (Year)
Study and control of electromigration driven material transport for applications in nanofabrication and patterning (2016).

Research Area
MEMS/NEMS

Publications
• “Electrolithography”- A Novel Patterning Technique Using Electric Field Driven Material Transport, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap (To be communicated).

• Creating wavy surfaces on a metallic path using electric field driven mass transport, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap (To be communicated).

• Controlled Material Transport and Multidimensional Patterning at Small Length Scales using Electromigration, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap (Accepted in Current Science).

• Film thickness mediated transition in the kinetics of electric current induced flow of thin liquid metal films, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 104, pp. 214102_1-214102_4, 2014.

• Electric current induced mass flow in very thin infinite metallic films, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap, IEEE Trans. Elec. Dev., vol. 60, pp. 2877-2883, 2013.

• Effect of substrate surface roughness on electric current induced flow of liquid metals, Santanu Talukder, Nalla Somaiah and Praveen Kumar, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 054101 (Jan, 2013).

• Nanoscale Control of Electro-migration for Resistance Tuning of Metal Lines, SantanuTalukder, ArindamGhosh and RudraPratap, Journal of ISSS, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 16-22, (Sept 2012).

Patents
A device, system and method generating structures on a substrate by electromigration, S. Talukder, P. Kumar, and R. Pratap, Indian patent application IPA12130001 (9 December 2014).

Current Position
Technical Lead Research, Nunam.

Experience
Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, (Jan 2016 – Present).

Theses Title (Year)
Design and development of ultra-low permeable moisture barrier materials for organic device encapsulation (2015)

Research Area
Materials, Temp materials

Current Position
Postdoctoral research, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

Current Position
• B.Sc., Physics, (2004 – 2007), Sri Vasavi College, Bharathiar University, Chennai.
• M.Tech/M.Sc (Dual Degree), Nanotechnology, 2007 – 2010, University of Madras, Chennai.
• Ph.D. Nano Science & Engg, (2011-2015), CeNSE, IISc, Bengaluru.

Experience
• Postdoc, Tufts University, Boston, USA, July 2016 -current.
• Project Associate, IIT Madras, Chennai, Nov 2010 – June 2011.

Theses Title (Year)
Nanostructured Hybrids with Engineered Interfaces for Efficient Electro, Photo and Gas Phase Catalytic Reactions.

Current Position
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota, USA.

Experience
• Postdoc, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA, (Sep 2016 – present).

Theses Title (Year)
Electric stimuli as instructive cues to guide cellular differentiation on electrically conductive biomaterial substrates in vitro, (2016).

Publications
• Greeshma Thrivikraman, Giridhar Madras and Bikramjit Basu; Intermittent electrical stimuli for guidance of human mesenchymal stem cell lineage commitment towards neural-like cells on electroconductive substrates; Biomaterials, 2014;35(24):6219-35.

• Greeshma Thrivikraman, Mallik PK, Basu B: Substrate Conductivity Dependent Modulation of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in vitro. Biomaterials, 2013 ;34:7073-7085.

• Gupta S, Greeshma T, Basu B, Goswami S, Sinha A: Stiffness- and wettability-dependent myoblast cell compatibility of transparent poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, 2012;101B(2):346-354.

Current Position
Academia Sinica Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Experience
• Researcher, New Industry Creation Hatchery Centre, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (May 2017-Sep 2017).
• NEDO postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, (Oct 2016 – Apr 2017).

Theses Title (Year)
Engineering the properties of elemental 2D materials using first-principles calculations, (2016).

Research Area
Devices on 2D Materials

Publications
• Aaditya Manjanath*, Ahin Roy*, Atanu Samanta, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Negative differential resistance in armchair silicene nanoribbons”, Nanotechnology, Just accepted, May 2017 *Equal contribution.

• Ryoji Sakurada et al., Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “First-Principles Study of the Effect of Trace Impurity on Initial Water Adsorption onto Belite”, J. Civil Engg Arch. Res. 3, 12, 1826-1832, December 2016.

• Arun Nissimagoudar, Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Diffusive nature of thermal transport in stanene”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 21, 14257-14263, April 2016.

• Babu Ram, Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Simultaneous tunability of electronic and phononic gaps in SnS2 under normal compressive strain”, 2D Mater. 3, 1, 015009:1-9, February 2016.

• Rahul Hardikar, Atanu Samanta, Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Vacancy mediated clipping of multi-layered graphene: A precursor for 1, 2, and 3D carbon structures”, Carbon 94, 67-72, June 2015.

• Aaditya Manjanath*, Atanu Samanta*, Tribhuwan Pandey*, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Semiconductor to metal transition in bilayer phosphorene under normal compressive strain”, Nanotechnology 26, 7, 075701:1-8, January 2015 *Equal contribution.

• Babu Ram Sharma*, Aaditya Manjanath*, and Abhishek K. Singh, “pentahexoctite: A new two-dimensional allotrope of carbon”, Sci. Rep. 4, 7164, 1-6, November 2014 *Equal contribution.

• Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Low formation energy and kinetic barrier of Stone-Wales defect in finite and infinite silicene”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 592, 52-55, December 2013.

• Aaditya Manjanath, Vijay Kumar, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Mechanical and electronic properties of pristine and Ni-doped Si, Ge, and Sn sheets”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 4, 1667-1671, November 2013.

Education
• B.Sc., Physics, Delhi University, New Delhi, India.
• MTech., Nano Science and Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India.

Experience
Reseach Assistant, NPL, India, (Jun 2009 – Jun 2010).

Current Position
Technical Leader at Nokia Networks

Education
• B.Tech., Electronics and Communication Engg, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
• M.Tech., Computer Science, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Experience
• Software Development Architect, Nokia India, Bangalore.
• Senior Software Engineer, Motorola India Electronics Limited, Bangalore, Aug 1998 – Sep 2005.
• Principle Member of Technical Staff, Starent Networks, Bangalore, Sep 2005 – Aug 2009.

Theses Title (Year)
Synthesis of Conceptual Designs for Sensors (2015)

Education
• M.Tech (Int.), (2013), Nanotechnology, University of Rajasthan, India.

Theses Title (Year)
Blend of polymers and nanostructures that kills bacteria in drinking water

Publications
• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Process induced electroactive β-polymorph in PVDF: effect on dielectric and ferroelectric properties,Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (28), 14792-14799, 2014.

• M Sharma, MP Singh, C Srivastava, G Madras, S Bose, Poly (vinylidene fluoride)-based flexible and lightweight materials for attenuating microwave radiations, ACS applied materials & interfaces 6 (23), 21151-21160, 2014.

• M Sharma, K Sharma, S Bose, Segmental relaxations and crystallization-induced phase separation in PVDF/PMMA blends in the presence of surface-functionalized multiwall carbon nanotubes, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 117 (28), 8589-8602, 2013.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Cooperativity and structural relaxations in PVDF/PMMA blends in the presence of MWNTs: an assessment through SAXS and dielectric spectroscopy, Macromolecules 47 (4), 1392-1402, 2014.

• M Sharma, S Sharma, J Abraham, S Thomas, G Madras, S Bose, Flexible EMI shielding materials derived by melt blending PVDF and ionic liquid modified MWNTs, Materials Research Express 1 (3), 035003, 2014.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Contrasting Effects of Graphene Oxide and Poly (ethylenimine) on the Polymorphism in Poly (vinylidene fluoride), Crystal Growth & Design 15 (7), 3345-3355, 2015.

• K Sharma, M Sharma, A Chandra, S Bose, Concentration Fluctuations and Segmental Dynamics in Weakly Dynamic Asymmetric Blends in the Presence of Surface‐Functionalized Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 214 (23), 2651-2669, 2013.

• PKS Mural, M Sharma, A Shukla, S Bhadra, B Padmanabhan, G Madras, Porous membranes designed from bi-phasic polymeric blends containing silver decorated reduced graphene oxide synthesized via a facile one-pot approach, RSC Advances 5 (41), 32441-32451, 2015.

• SB Prasanna Kumar S Mural, Maya Sharma, Giridhar Madras, A critical review on in situ reduction of graphene oxide during preparation of conducting polymeric nanocomposites, RSC Advances 5, 32078-32087, 2015.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Unique nanoporous antibacterial membranes derived through crystallization induced phase separation in PVDF/PMMA blends, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3 (11), 5991-6003, 2015.

• V Bhingardive, M Sharma, S Suwas, G Madras, S Bose, Polyvinylidene fluoride based lightweight and corrosion resistant electromagnetic shielding materials, RSC Advances 5 (45), 35909-35916, 2015.

• A Srivastava, M Sharma, N Tyagi, SL Kothari, Diameter dependent electronic properties of zigzag single wall BX (X= N, P, As) nanotubes: ab-initio study, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 9 (10), 1693-1699, 2012.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Anomalous structural relaxations in PVDF rich blends with PMMA in the presence of surface functionalized CNTs, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (42), 23421-23430, 2014.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Size dependent structural relaxations and dielectric properties induced by surface functionalized MWNTs in poly (vinylidene fluoride)/poly (methyl methacrylate) blends, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (6), 2693-2704, 2014.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Shear induced crystallization in different polymorphic forms of PVDF induced by surface functionalized MWNTs in PVDF/PMMA blends, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16 (31), 16492-16501, 2014.

• M Sharma, V Srinivas, G Madras, S Bose, Outstanding dielectric constant and piezoelectric coefficient in electrospun nanofiber mats of PVDF containing silver decorated multiwall carbon nanotubes: assessing through piezoresponse force microscopy, RSC Advances 6 (8), 6251-6258,2016.

• SB Maya Sharma, Giridhar Madras, Unusual Fragility and Cooperativity in Glass-Forming and Crystalline PVDF/PMMA Blends in the Presence of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes, Macromolecules, 2015.

• M Sharma, S Ranganatha, AK Kalyani, R Ranjan, G Madras, S Bose, Zirconia doped barium titanate induced electroactive β polymorph in PVDF-HFP: high energy density and dielectric properties, Materials Research Express 1 (4), 045301, 2014.

• A Gebrekrstos, M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, New Physical Insights into Shear History Dependent Polymorphism in Poly (vinylidene fluoride), Crystal Growth & Design 16 (5), 2937-2944, 2016.

• M Sharma, N Padmavathy, S Remanan, G Madras, S Bose, Facile one-pot scalable strategy to engineer biocidal silver nanocluster assembly on thiolated PVDF membranes for water purification, RSC Advances 6 (45), 38972-38983, 2016.

• S Bose, M Sharma, A Bharati, P Moldenaers, R Cardinaels, A strategy to achieve enhanced electromagnetic interference shielding at ultra-low concentration of multiwall carbon nanotubes in PαMSAN/PMMA blends in the presence of a random copolymer PS-r-PMMA, RSC Advances 6 (32), 26959-26966, 2016.

• SB Amanuel Gebrekrstos, Maya Sharma, Giridhar Madras, Critical insights into the effect of shear, shear history and the concentration of a diluent on the polymorphism in PVDF, Crystal Growth and Design, 2017.

• SB Maya Sharma, Sanjay Remanan, Giridhar Madras, Crystallization Induced Phase Separation: Unique Tool to Design Microfiltration Membranes with High Flux and Sustainable Antibacterial Surface, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2017.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, PVDF membranes containing hybrid nanoparticles for adsorbing cationic dyes: physical insights and mechanism, Materials Research Express 3 (7), 075303, 2016.

• M Sharma, G Madras, S Bose, Critical insights into the effect of shear on in situ reduction of graphene oxide in PVDF: assessing by rheo-dielectric measurements, Materials Research Express 3 (6), 065301, 2016.

Current Position
Staff Engineer, Sandisk.

Experience
Equipment Development Engineer, KAS technologies, Sep 2016 – Jan 2018

Theses Title (Year)
Integration of functional oxide films on semiconducting substrates for system-on-chip applications (2016)

Current Position
Sales Account Specialist at Research Microscopy Solutions (RMS) Division of Carl Zeiss India

Experience
Assistant Professor, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, Haryana

Theses Title (Year)
Growth and Characterization of ZnO Nanostructures for Device Applications: Field Emission, Memristor and Gas Sensors