•    Development of optical microscope including Stokes vector based polarization 
•    Development of multimodal nonlinear optical microscope 
•    Spectroscopic and microscopic characterization of starch granules 
•    Prototype medical device including smartphone based 
•    Fabrication of biodegradable elastomeric microfluidics device 
•    Machine learning approach in optical microscopy for tissue characterization 

•    Reviewer of the Technical Program Committee, IEEE Guwahati Sub Section Conference, GCON 2023, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India from 23rd to 25th June, 2023. 
•    Chapter advisor, Manipal OPTICA Student Chapter, Manipal, India (2016 to date)
•    Innovation Ambassador, Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell, GOI. 
•    Technical Program Committee Member, BioPhotonics 2019, The 4th International Conference on BioPhotonics, Sept. 15 to 18, 2019 at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
•    Selection committee in “The Siegman International School on Laser, 2019” The Optical Society (OSA), USA
•    Selection committee in “Adolph Lomb Medal” till 2023 The Optical Society (OSA), USA
•    OSA Senior Member since 2019
•    SPIE Senior Member since 2021
•    International Project Review Expert, Russian Science Foundation, Russia. Since 2019
•    Reviewer for “OSA Activity and Youth Education grants 2014, 2015, 2016”
•    Reviewer in QS Academic Reputation Survey, Shimane University, Japan.
•    Reviewer in QS Academic Reputation Survey, Tomsk State University, Russia.

Awards and recognition

1.    N. Mazumder, FAOBMB Young Scientist Programme (YSP) awardee, 2021, the 16th Congress of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB), New Zealand (22 - 25 November 2021)
2.    Aditi Sengupta, Ishita Chakraborty, Indira G, N. Mazumder, "Physicochemical characterization of native starch from different starch verities" National Conference on Emerging Trends in Physics-2021 (NCTEP-2021), 16 June 2021 Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Assam, India. (Best poster award). 
3.    The story “Bringing diagnosis from lab to smartphone” by Mr. Sowmyabrata Banik, a BSc Biotechnology student, has been published in the August 2019 edition of “QS WOW News “. Here is the link- https://content.qs.com/wownews/latest/index_30.html#page=1. 
4.    Soumyabrata Banik, K K Mahato, N. Mazumder, Development of cost effective, portable and easy-to-use microscopic device for disease detection, Best Prize in Oral Presentation in Manipal Research Colloquium 2019 at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka during April 1-3, 2019.
5.    Soumyabrata Banik, N. Mazumder, Portable Optical Microscopy using Smartphone for Disease Diagnosis, First Prize in Basic Sciences category in ANVESHAN 2019 South Zonal Convention, VIGNAN’S Foundation for Science, Technology & Research, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh during 22-23 February 2019.
6.    Indira G, K K Mahato, N. Mazumder, Structural and Chemical Characterization of Starch Granules using Microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques, 2019 LAMP Poster Award (3rd Place) in Winter College in Application of Optics and Photonics in Food Science, 11 - 22 February, 2019, ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics), Trieste, Italy. 
7.    Spandana K. U., K. K. Mahato, N. Mazumder, Development of Four-Channel based Linear Stokes-Mueller Polarization Microscope for Tissue Characterization, Frontiers in Optics/ Laser Science Conference, Sept. 14- 20, 2018, Washington, U.S.A. (Best polarization poster award).

1.    Vishwanath Managuli, N. Mazumder, Srivardhan Rao Polasani, Ishita Chakraborty, Pooja, “Biodegradable self-lock tag device and method thereof” and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office - Chennai (Ref/App. No. 202341083490 filed on December 7, 2023). 
2.    N. Mazumder, Pooja, Mahato K. K., “A Thermoplastic starch (TPS) film and a method for preparing the same” and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office - Chennai (Ref/App. No. 202341060541 filed on September 8, 2023). 
3.    N. Mazumder, Pooja, Nafisa Yeshmin Ahmed, Neha P Santhosh, Sib Sankar Mal, Ishita Chakraborty, Mahato K. K., “A Method for preparation of starch-based bioplastic film with activated carbon”, and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office - Chennai (Ref/App. No. 202341056528 filed on August 23, 2023). 
4.    Rajib Biswas, N. Mazumder, Vishwanath Managuli, Shree hasta “System and method for enabling internet of things-based sample analysis system” and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office - Chennai (Ref/App. No. 202341005263 filed on January 26, 2023). 
5.    Rajib Biswas, N. Mazumder, Vishwanath Managuli, Shree hasta “Sample analysis system” and has been submitted a design patent to regional Indian Patent Office - Kolkata (Ref/App. No. 378039-001 filed on January 27, 2023). 
6.    Rajib Biswas, Pritam Deb, N. Mazumder, Soumyabrata Banik “Development of multimodal optofluidic system for sensing heavy metal ion” and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office – Kolkata (Ref/App. No. 202131041315 filed on September 14, 2022).
7.    N. Mazumder, Spandana K U, Mahato K. K., Rai S., Satyamoorthy K., Vasudevan T G, have filled an Indian patent titled “Method and imaging system for analysis tissue specimen” and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office – Chennai (Ref/App. No. 202141026979 filed on June 17, 2021).
8.    Krishore Kishore Mahato, Darshan Chikkanayakanahalli Mukunda, N. Mazumder, Subhash Chandra, have filled an Indian patent titled “Apparatus and method for identification of conformational and chemical change in non-enzymatically glycated proteins” and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office – Chennai (Ref/App. No. 202141038896 filed on August 27, 2021).
9.    N. Mazumder, Satyamoorthy K., Mahato K. K., Banik S, Vasudevan T G, have filled an Indian patent titled “Method and apparatus for optical microscopy using a mobile device” and has been submitted to regional Indian Patent Office – Chennai (Ref/App. No. 201941031164 filed on August 01, 2019).

1. Nov. 2014 - June 2016     Postdoctoral Fellow   Department of Nanophysics and NeuroBrain Technology, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
2. Nov. 2013 - June 2014     Postdoctoral Research Associate                  KCCI, Department of Biology, University of Virginia, USA