Education:

• B.Sc.    (2005-2008) : Silver Jubilee Govt. College (A), Andhra Pradesh, India

• M.Sc. (2008-2010) : Division of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, (M.Sc. Project Advisor: Prof. P. Thilagar)

• Ph.D.   (2010-2016) : Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Thesis Advisor: Prof. P. Thilagar)

 

Postdoctoral Experiences:

• Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (5th Feb 2024 – 18th Oct 2024): Tata-institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad, India (Advisor: Prof. V. Chandrasekhar)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (12th Nov 2022 – June 30th 2023): School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK (Advisor: Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman)

• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (12th Nov 2020 – 11th Nov 2022): School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK (Advisor: Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman)

• Postdoctoral Fellow (1st Oct 2019 – 30th April 2020): Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (Advisor: Prof. Aharon Gadenken).

• Research Associate (1st Feb 2019 – 31st Aug 2019): School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, India. (Advisor: Prof. T.P. Radhakrishnan)

• National Postdoctoral Fellow (1st Feb 2017 – 31st Jan 2019): School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, India. (Advisor: Prof. T.P. Radhakrishnan)

• Research Associate (1st Feb 2016 – 30th April 2016): Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India (Advisor: Prof. P. Thilagar)

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Awards and Fellowships:

• DST-INSPIRE faculty fellowship (Mar-2024)

• Institute postdoctoral research fellowship, TIFR-Hyderabad, India (Jan-2024)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship, European commission (Feb-2020)

• National postdoctoral fellowship, Science and engineering research board (SERB), New Delhi, India (Jan-2017)

• Qualified for Joint Admission Test to Master of Science for admission to Indian Institutes of Technology.

• Integrated MS-PhD programme fellowship, IISc, Bangalore, India (2008-2016)

• Qualified  Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2011)