Professional Experience
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                       Assistant Professor (2021 - present)  | 
                    
                       Department of Physics, IIT Gandhinagar  | 
                  
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                       Postdoctoral Associate (2017 - 20)  | 
                    
                       Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania  | 
                  
Education
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                       Ph.D. (2013 – 17)  | 
                    
                       Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore  | 
                  
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                       M.S. (2010 – 13)  | 
                    
                       Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore  | 
                  
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                       B.Sc. (2007 – 10)  | 
                    
                       Hindu College, University of Delhi  | 
                  
Awards and Grants
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                     2023  | 
                    
                       International Travel Support (ITS), SERB to attend STATPHYS 28 Tokyo, Japan  | 
                  
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                     2021  | 
                    
                       Start-up Research Grant (SRG), SERB, DST, Govt. of India  | 
                  
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                     2021  | 
                    
                       Research Initiation Grant (RIG), IIT Gandhinagar  | 
                  
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                       2017  | 
                    
                       Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Physical Science, JNCASR Bangalore  | 
                  
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                     2016  | 
                    
                       Travel grant from CICS, Chennai to attend STATPHYS 26 Lyon, France  | 
                  
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                       2013  | 
                    
                       Bapu Narayanaswamy Prize for the best M.S. Thesis, JNCASR Bangalore  | 
                  
Science Outreach
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                       2018 – 20  | 
                    
                       Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day (Exhibition: Surprising Behavior of Soft Matter)  |