I’m from West Bengal, India. I completed my undergraduate degree in 2020 from Rishi Bankim Chandra College, India, with honours in Chemistry and taking Physics and Math as minors. In the same year, I joined Rahara Ramakrishna Mission as a master’s degree student. In 2021, I got an opportunity to work with Prof. Deepak Chopra at IISER Bhopal as a summer intern. I did work on supramolecular chemistry and co-crystallization in solids under his guidance. In 2022, I joined Prof. Pradipta Purkayastha’s Lab at IISER Kolkata to research on “Disintegration of Coumarin 6 Microcrystals in Aqueous Medium and Encapsulation of the Molecules by Niosomes using Fluorescence Spectroscopy” as a part of my MS project. Extending this work, I also got my first publication in the ACS JPCC journal at the beginning of 2023. I also worked under the supervision of Prof. Manik Pradhan at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences on Cavity ring-down Spectroscopy to study the isotopic exchange phenomenon between Rice and water. After successfully completing my M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry, I moved to the USA to pursue PhD and initiate a research career.

I joined the Borguet group at Temple University as a graduate student in Fall 2023. In this versatile research group, I’m interested in doing research on ultrafast nonlinear optics and spectroscopy.