Postdoctoral fellow in the Ultrafast Nanoscience group led by Nicolò Maccaferri.
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Ultrafast Nanoscience group at the Department of Physics, Umeå University (Sweden). My research is supported by the Excellence by Choice programme funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Kempe Foundation, and Umeå University. Previously, I was a research associate at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali in India in the Molecular Strong Coupling group.
In my research, I use ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopy to experimentally probe biological processes such as enzyme binding. Although biomolecular structures have been extensively studied using crystallography and NMR techniques, capturing their dynamics is more challenging. This is because biochemical processes such as protein conformational changes occur at extremely fast timescales, often much faster than the temporal resolutions of common measurement techniques. We implement an ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy technique called two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy to probe these dynamics with picosecond resolution. The insights are promising for the identification of mechanisms for structure-based drug design.
I studied Physics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) from 2011-2016 and completed my PhD from IISER Thiruvananthapuram in 2022, from the Scanning Probe Microscopy and Plasmonics group. In my PhD, I explored epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanophotonic thin films and their infrared photonic applications. My other research involves strongly coupled optical systems and their dispersion control; polariton-mediated charge and energy transport in strong coupling systems; and metamaterials for ultrafast and broadband operation.