• Alternative and renewable energy: supercapacitors, QW solar cells, water splitting, thermoelectrics.

• III-Nitrides, semiconducting oxides.

• Nonlinear optics.

Associate Professor 

Awards and recognition

• Visiting Researcher, National University of Science and Technology/Ministry of Education and Science, Russia, 2014
• National Postdoctoral Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India, 2016
• Young Scientist Grant, Ministry of Education and Science, Russia, 2014
• Institute Fellowship, NITK Surathkal/Ministry of Human Resources Development, India, 2008

Research Grants
• Co-PI: Development of a Needle-free Non-Invasive Transdermal Glucose Monitoring Device via Graphene based Miniaturized Pixel Array Platform, Ministry of Education, Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration, INR 55,73,295-Ongoing, 2023-25
• PI: Investigation of mechanical properties of AIN thin films on Si for low frequency piezoelectric energy
harvesters, MAHE-Seed Money Grant, INR 85,000-Ongoing, 2022-24.
• PI: Scandium doped AlN: A combined experimental and DFT studies for piezoelectric device applications- MAHE Intra Mural Grant, INR 5,98,000-Ongoing, 2022-25.
• PI: Realization of high Scandium concentration in AlScN, MAHE-support grant for extra mural projects, INR 10,50,000-Ongoing, 2021-22.
• PI: SAT Z’PiezoS: Scandium doped AlN Thin Films for Zero-power Piezoelectric Sensors, DST-SERB India, INR 32,06,000-Ongoing, 2020-22.
• PI: Materials for high-efficiency QW solar cells: A case study of GaAs/GaBiAs quantum well structures,
(Short-term Visiting Grant), Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation RUB 8,00,000 - Completed, 2018-20
• PI: Development of LED structures based on the GaN Nanowall network active layers (NPDF Grant), DSTSERB India, INR 19,20,000-Completed, 2016-18
• Co-PI: Photovoltaic properties of resonant tunneling quantum well structures, (Young Scientist Grant), Ministry
of Education and Science of Russian Federation, RUB 38,00,000-Completed, 2014-16

• 07/2023-till date        Associate Professor, at Department of Physics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576 104, India
• 09/2021-07/2023     Assistant Professor-Selection Grade, at Department of Physics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576 104, India
• 11/2018-09/2021     Assistant Professor/Asst. Prof.-Senior Scale at Department of Physics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576 104, India
• 02/2018-11/2018     Instructor-UG programme at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, India
• 07/2016-02/2018     National Postdoctoral Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru 560 064, India
• 10/2014-07/2016     Assistant Professor at National University of Science and Technology, Moscow 119 049, Russia
• 04/2013-07/2014     Research Associate at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, 560 064, India
• 09/2007-06/2008     Lecturer at S. D. M. Institute of Technology, Ujire 575 240, India