Current Position
Scientific Researcher (Post Doctoral), Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland.

Experience
• Scientific Researcher (Post Doctoral), Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland.
• Sr. Hardware Design Engineer, ST Ericsson/Ericsson, Bangalore, India, (2011-2014).

Research Area
Devices on 2D Materials

Publications
• Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Kolla Lakshmi Ganapathi, Hareesh Chandrasekar, Tathagata Paul, Sangeneni Mohan, Arindam Ghosh, Srinivasan Raghavan, and Navakanta Bhat. “Nitride Dielectric Environments to Suppress Surface Optical Phonon Dominated Scattering in High‐Performance Multilayer MoS2 FETs.” Advanced Electronic Materials 3, no. 1 (2017).

• Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Kolla Lakshmi Ganapathi, Digbijoy N. Nath, and Navakanta Bhat. “Surface State Engineering of Metal/MoS2 Contacts Using Sulfur Treatment for Reduced Contact Resistance and Variability.” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 63, no. 6 (2016): 2556-2562.

• Ganapathi, Kolla Lakshmi, Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Sangeneni Mohan, and Navakanta Bhat. “High-Performance HfO 2 Back Gated Multilayer MoS2 Transistors.” IEEE Electron Device Letters 37, no. 6 (2016): 797-800.

• Chandrasekar, Hareesh, Kolla Lakshmi Ganapathi, Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Navakanta Bhat, and Digbijoy N. Nath. “Optical-Phonon-Limited High-Field Transport in Layered Materials.” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 63, no. 2 (2016): 767-772.

• Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Kolla Lakshmi Ganapathi, Digbijoy N. Nath, and Navakanta Bhat. “Intrinsic limit for contact resistance in exfoliated multilayered MoS2 FET.” IEEE Electron Device Letters 37, no. 1 (2016): 119-122.

• Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Jose, Iven, Kodand Dinakar Deodhar and Uday B. Desai, “Early detection of breast cancer: synthesis and characterization of novel target specific NIR-fluorescent estrogen conjugate for molecular optical imaging.” Journal of fluorescence 21, no. 3 (2011): 1171-1177.

Patents
Shubhadeep Bhattacharjee, Kolla Lakshmi Ganapathi, Sangeneni Mohan and Navakanta Bhat. “ASYMMETRIC DUAL GATE PROGRAMMABLE THERMIONIC TUNNEL FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR”. Application No. 201741018661.

Current Position
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in ETH, Zurich.

Experience
• Research Associate, (Unilever/IISc Project), CeNSE, IISc, Bengaluru, India, Feb 2014 – July 2014.
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2018- Present.

Theses Title (Year)
Fabrication and Characterization of Nanostructured Antibacterial Surfaces (2018)

Research Area
Microfluidics, Interfacial Microfluids, Droplet Based Devices, Nano-biotechnology

Publications
• Abinash Tripathy, Girish Muralidharan, Amitava Pramanik and Prosenjit Sen, “Single Etch Fabrication and Characterization of Robust Nanoparticle Tipped Bi-level Superhydrophobic Surfaces”, RSC Advances, 2016, http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/RA/c6ra16312b#!divAbs...

• Abinash Tripathy, Prosenjit Sen, Bo Su and Wuge H. Briscoe, “Natural and Bioinspired Nanostructured Bactericidal Surfaces”, Advances in Colloid & Interface Science, 2017, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001868616303542

• Abinash Tripathy, Syama Sreedharan, Chetana Bhaskarla, Shamik Majumdar, Sudheer Kumar Peneti, Dipankar Nandi, and Prosenjit Sen, “Enhancing the Bactericidal Efficacy of Nanostructured Multifunctional Surface using an Ultra-Thin Metal Coating”, Langmuir, 2017, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02291

• Arvind Kumar, Abinash Tripathy, Youngsuk Nam, Choongyeop Lee and Prosenjit Sen, “Effect of Geometrical Parameters on Rebound of Impacting Droplets on Leaky Superhydrophobic Meshes”, Soft Matter, 2018, http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/sm/c7sm02145c#!divAbs...

• Abinash Tripathy, Suman Pahal, Rajeev J. Mudakavi, Ashok M. Raichur, Manoj M. Varma, and Prosenjit Sen, “Impact of Bioinspired Nanotopography on the Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Efficacy of Chitosan”, ACS BioMacromolecules, 2018, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00200

• Abinash Tripathy, Arvind Kumar, Syama Sreedharan, Girish Muralidharan, Amitava Pramanik, Dipankar Nandi, and Prosenjit Sen, “Fabrication of Low-Cost Flexible Superhydrophobic Antibacterial Surface with Dual-Scale Roughness”, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 2018, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b00209

• Abinash Tripathy, Arvind Kumar, Atish Roy Chowdhury, Kapudeep Karmakar, Swathi Purighalla, Vasan K Sambandamurthy, Dipshikha Chakravortty and Prosenjit Sen, “A Nanowire-Based Flexible Antibacterial Surface Reduces the Viability of Drug-Resistant Nosocomial Pathogens”, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.8b00397

• Arvind Kumar, Abinash Tripathy, Chandantaru Dey Modak and Prosenjit Sen, “Designing Assembly of Meshes Having Diverse Wettability for Reducing Liquid Ejection at Terminal Velocity Droplet Impact”, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2018, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8405610/

• Abinash Tripathy, Patryk Wasik, Syama Sreedharan, Dipankar Nandi, Oier Bikondoa, Bo Su, Prosenjit Sen and Wuge H. Briscoe, “Facile Fabrication of Multifunctional ZnO Urchins on Surfaces”, Colloids and Interfaces, 2018, https://www.mdpi.com/2504-5377/2/4/74

Current Position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University College London, UK.

Education
B. Tech (Engg. Physics), (2009-2013), Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India.

Theses Title (Year)
Droplet Interface Oscillations using Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD) for Open-Chip Microfluidic Applications (2018).

Research Area
Microfluidics, Interfacial Microfluids, Droplet Based Devices, Lab-on-a-Chip

Publications
• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Mixing Enhancement by Degenerate Modes in Electrically Actuated Sessile Droplets,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 232, 318-326, 2016.

• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Axisymmetric and Non-Axisymmetric Oscillations of Sessile Compound Droplets in Open Digital Microfluidic Platform,” Langmuir, 33, 11047-11058, 2017.

• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Effect of Electrowetting Induced Capillary Oscillations on Coalescence of Compound Droplets,” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 530, 223–232, 2018.

Conference and Seminars
• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Non-Axisymmetric Oscillations of Droplets in Electrowetting-on-Dielectric,” International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), IEEE Xplore, Bangalore, India, 2014.

• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Contact line relaxation dynamics for sensing local fluid properties,” The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS), Ireland, October 2016.

• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Frequency response of a liquid interface segment actuated using AC EWOD,” International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), IEEE Xplore, Mumbai, India, 2016.

• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Relaxation Dynamics of Locally Actuated Contact Line by DC-Electrowetting,” The 10th International Meeting on Electrowetting, Taiwan, June 2016.

• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “On-Chip Magnetic Bead and Nanoparticle Separation in Compound Droplet EWOD,” The 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS 2018), Singapore, April 2018.

• S. Bansal and P. Sen, “Dynamics of oscillations and coalescence of compound droplets by AC electrowetting,” The 11th International Conference on Electrowetting and drop dynamics on functionalized surfaces, Netherlands, June 2018.

• S. Bansal, Nitish Sagar and P. Sen, “Single sided splitting of droplet on open chip using DC electrowetting,” The 11th International Conference on Electrowetting and drop dynamics on functionalized surfaces, Netherlands, June 2018.

Education
Integrated MSc. Physics

Education
• Bachelors in Computer Sc (BS), MSRIT, Bengaluru, India.
• Masters in EE, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Experience
• Software Engineer, cBio corp, Fremont, USA, (2008 – 2010).
• UI Lead, LoanPerformance, San Francisco, USA, (2006 – 2008).
• Software Engineer, Honeywell Technology Solutions, India, (2002 – 2003).

Theses Title (Year)
Microwave synthesis of superparamagnetic cobalt ferrite thin films for RF CMOS applications (2019)

Research Area
Materials

Current Position
Newton International Fellow, University of Manchester

Experience
• Research Intern, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, July-September 2010.
• Research Assistant, Center for Nano Science and Engineering, IISc, November 2010- April 2012.

Experience
NEMS

Theses Title (Year)
Bright-field Nanoscopy (2017)

Research Area
Optical Data/Tele-Communications

Publications
• Swathi Suran, Krishna Bharadwaj, Srinivasan Raghavan, Manoj M. Varma,” Bright-field Nanoscopy: Visualizing Nanostructures with Localized Optical Contrast Using a Conventional Microscope”, Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 25011. doi: 10.1038/srep25011.

• Hareesh Chandrasekar, Krishna Bharadwaj B, Kranthi Kumar Vaidyuala, Swathi Suran, Navakanta Bhat, Manoj Varma and Srinivasan Raghavan, “Spotting 2D atomic layers on aluminum nitride thin films”, Nanotechnology 26 (2015) 425202 (8pp).

• Venkanagouda Shivanagouda Goudar, Swathi Suran, Gurusiddappa R. Prashanth, and Manoj M. Varma, “Detection of Hepatitis B DNA Sequences on Polyelectrolyte Based Non-Covalently Functionalized Flexible Plastic Substrates”, IEEE sensors journal, Vol. 13, No. 12, December 2013.

• Prashant G. R., Venkanagouda S. Goudar, Swathi Suran, Ashok Raichur, Manoj M. Varma, “Substrate Independent Non-Covalent Functionalization Using Lithographically Patterned Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for High-Density Microarrays”, Sensors and Actuators B 171– 172 (2012) 315– 322.

• Venkanagouda Shivanagouda Goudar, Swathi Suran, Manoj M. Varma, “Photoresist functionalisation method for high-density protein microarrays using photolithography”,Micro & Nano Letters, 2012, Vol. 7, Iss. 6, pp. 549–553.

Under Preparation

• Swathi Suran, Manoj M. Varma,” BFN to study surface charge dependent water uptake in ultra-thin polymer membranes”

• Krishna Bharadwaj B, Priyadarshini Ghosh, Swathi Suran, Rohan Mishra, Ritesh Sachan, Manoj Varma, Rudra Pratap, and Srinivasan Raghavan “Reversible Defect Creation and Healing During Graphene Growth”

Education
• B.E. (2004-2008), Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• M.S. (2009-2012), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Experience
Research Intern, General Electric Company, JFWTC, Bangalore, India, (Feb 2012 – Jul 2012).

Publications
• P.R. Prasad, S. Bhattacharya, “Improvements in speckle tracking algorithms for vibrational analysis using optical coherence tomography,” J. Biomed Optics, Vol. 18, No. 4, April 2013.

• P.R. Prasad, S.K. Selvaraja, M.M. Varma, “ High precision measurement of intensity peaks shifts in tunable cascaded microring intensity sensors”, Opt. Lett. Vol. 41, No. 14, July 2016.

• P.R. Prasad, S.K. Selvaraja, M.M. Varma, “Full-range detection in cascaded microring sensor using thermooptical tuning”, J. Lightwave Tech, Vol. 34, No. 22, Nov 2016.

Publications
S. Maity, NK Sethumadhavan, SP Poonacha, PR Prasad. “Methods and device for dissolved gas analysis”; US Patent 9453806.

Education
• M.E. Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
• B.E. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur.
• Ph.D (CeNSE, IISc)

Experience
• Fabrication of 3d structures using e-beam and thermal evaporation
• Study of dynamics of magnetically actuated helical swimmers in rotating field
• Study of magnetically actuated active matter system
• Optical tweezer

Publications
• A. Ghosh, P. Mandal, S. Karmakar, A. Ghosh, ” Analytical theory and stability analysis of an elongated nanoscale object under external torque”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/c3cp50701g.

• Mandal, P. and Ghosh, A., 2013. Observation of enhanced diffusivity in magnetically powered reciprocal swimmers. Physical review letters, 111(24), p.248101.

• Mandal, P., Chopra, V. and Ghosh, A., 2015. Independent positioning of magnetic nanomotors. ACS nano, 9(5), pp.4717-4725.

• Mandal, P., Patil, G., Kakoty, H. and Ghosh, A., Active matter based on helical propulsion. Accounts of chemical research. “submitted”, Manuscript ID: ar-2018-00315v

Patents
“A Method and a System for Rheological Measurements” by Arijit Ghosh, Pranay Mandal and Ambarish Ghosh; Indian Patent Application No. 715/CHE/2015.

Conference and Seminars
• Pranay Mandal, A. Ghosh, “Magnetically Actuated Reciprocal Swimmers”, CeNSE Student Research Symposium, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2014 (Best oral presentation).

• Pranay Mandal, and A. Ghosh, “Independent Positioning of Nano Swimmers”, Bangalore School on Statistical Physics, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India, 2015 (Poster).

• Pranay Mandal, and A. Ghosh, “Magnetically Actuated Non-Reciprocal Swimmers”, Compflu, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, Pune, India, 2016 (Poster).

• Pranay Mandal, and A. Ghosh, “Experimental Realization of All-Magnetic Active Matter”, Gordon Research Seminar, Materials by Design: Using Active and Meta-Materials to Explore New Physics and Create Customized, Tunable Matter, Soft Matter in and out of Equilibrium, 2017 (Oral Presentation).

• Pranay Mandal, and A. Ghosh, “Experimental Realization of All-Magnetic Active Matter”, Gordon Research Conference, Soft Matter in and out of Equilibrium, 2017 (Poster).

Current Position
Postdoctoral Researcher, Chonnam National University, South Korea.

Experience
Project Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (Nov 2011 – Jul 2012).

Current Position
Scientist at ISRO Inertial Systems Unit

Experience
• Project Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. Bengaluru, (2010-2012).

Theses Title (Year)
Towards Design and Development of Indigenous Rate-Grade MEMS Gyroscopes (2018)

Publications
• Fabrication and characterization of piezoresistive based encapsulated poly-Si cantilevers for bio/chemical sensing by N.P.Vamsi Krishna, T.R. Srinivasa Murthy, Jayaprakash Reddy, Sangeeth. K and G.M.Hegde, doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2011.06.168, Physics procedia, ICOPEN-2011.

• Stiction Free Fabrication of MEMS Devices with Shallow Cavities Using Two-Wafer Anodic Bonding Process by Jayaprakash Reddy, K.N.Bhat, R. Pratap, J. ISSS Vol.1 No.1, pp. 1-9, Sept 2012.

• Coupled numerical analysis of suspended gate field effect transistor (SGFET) by Jayaprakash Reddy, Charanjeet Kaur Malhi, Rudra Pratap, and Navakanta Bhat. In 1st International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS), 2012, pp. 141-144. IEEE, 2012, doi:10.1109/ISPTS.2012.6260903.

• A Study of Pressure-Dependent Squeeze Film Stiffness as a Resonance Modulator Using Static and Dynamic Measurements by Vamsy Godthi, Jayaprakash Reddy, and Rudra Pratap, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, December 2015, doi:10.1109/JMEMS.2015.2431633.

• Design and fabrication of single wafer capacitors for MEMS devices by Meera Garud, Jayaprakash Reddy, Vamsy Godthi and Rudra Pratap, Journal of Acoustical Society of India (JASI), Volume 43, Number 1, January 2016.

• Fabrication of stress-free MEMS structures with a modified SOI-on-glass by Jayaprakash Reddy, and Rudra Pratap in IEEE-Sensors, pp. 1-3, 2016, 10.1109/ICSENS.2016.7808653.

• Si-Gold-Glass Hybrid Wafer Bond for 3D-MEMS and Wafer Level Packaging by Jayaprakash Reddy, R. Pratap, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 27(2017), doi:10.1088/0960-1317/27/1/015005.

Patents
• Vamsy Godthi, Jayaprakash Reddy, and Rudra Pratap., Patent No. 201741010624, Date: 25/3/2017, Title: “MEMS Speaker” , Organization: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. India.