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Dr. Kaustuv Manna

Assistant Professor

IIT Delhi

Telephone:

+91- 11-2659 1332

Email:

kaustuvmanna@iitd.ac.in

kaustuvmanna@gmail.com

Address:

Department of Physics

IIT Delhi

Research Experience

September 2020 – Present

2020

July 2015 – August 2020

May 2014 – June 2015

August 2013 – May 2014

Assistant professor, Physics department, IIT-Delhi.

Obtained offer for joining as assistant professor in Physics department, IIT-Bhubaneswar.  

Group leader in Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser

Expertise: Single crystal growth, magnetic and transport characterizations of various topological materials.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden IFW, Germany.

Host: Prof. Dr. Bernd Buchner; Advisor: Dr. Sabine Wurmehl.

Expertise: Single crystal growth and magnetic characterizations of various Iridate oxides.

 IISc Senior Research Associate in Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, India. 

Advisor: Prof. P. S. Anil Kumar and Dr. Suja Elizabeth

Expertise: Single crystal and thin-film growth, magnetic characterizations of various perovskite oxides.

Awards and Recognition

  1. Max Planck India Partner Group, 2021.

  2. Young Scientist’s Research Award, DAE, India, 2021.

  3. Group leader in Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids-Dresden, Germany, 2015-2020.

  4. Post Doctoral Award and Visiting Scientist Award from Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden IFW, Germany, 2014.

  5. Department of Science and Technology, Government of India; Student Travel Award, 2013

  6. 58th MMM Student Travel Award, 2013.

  7. CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Govt. of India; Student Travel Award, 2012.

  8. Best poster presentation award in “International Conference on Magnetic Materials”, 2010.

  9. Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering), All India rank: 23, 2008.

  10. Qualified Junior Research Fellowship, CSIR-NET, India in 2007 June and December.

  11. Qualified JEST (Joint Entrance Screening Test), All India rank: 115, 2008.

  12. ‘First Class First’ of College in B.Sc. (Hons. in Physics), Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, 2006.

  13. SBI scholarship, State Bank of India, India during 1991-2001.

Education

August 2008 – July 2013

Ph.D. from Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Science, India. 

Advisor: Prof. P. S. Anil Kumar and Dr. Suja Elizabeth

Thesis title: “Evolution of the magnetic ground states with lattice distortion and chemical inhomogeneity in doped perovskite oxides”.

July 2006 – June 2008

M.Sc. in Physics from Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Technology  (IIT) Guwahati,  Assam, India.

Grade: Cumulative Performance Index (C.P.I.): 8.73/10.

August 2003 – June 2006

 B.Sc. Hons. in Physics from Department of Physics

Asutosh College, University of Calcutta

West Bengal, India

First Class First in college.

Aggregate = 72 %.

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