Academic Details:

  • Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, and Coordinator of the Department of Computer Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur, India. November 2022 – Present.
  • Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, and Coordinator of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur, India. August 2022 – November 2022.
  • Senior Research Scientist: Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States. March 2018 – July 2022. Mentor: Prof. Alfredo Dubra
  • Advanced M+Visión COFUND Fellow and Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Instituto de Óptica (CSIC), Madrid, Spain. December 2014 – February 2018. Mentor: Prof. Susana Marcos
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. March 2012 – August 2014.
    Mentor: Prof. Brian Vohnsen
  • Ph.D. Joint Astronomy Programme (JAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, August 2006 – February 2012. Thesis supervisor: Prof. B. Raghavendra Prasad
  • M.Sc. (Physics) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, India, June 2004 – March 2006
  • B.Sc. (Hons. in Physics) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Bangalore, India, June 2001 – March 2004
  • Until 12th grade, Bhadrachalam Public School and Junior College, 1987-2001