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I am physicist working at the interfaces of materials science and chemical engineering. My research focuses on the nucleation and growth of materials and understanding the structure-properties relationship suitable for optical and pharmaceutical applications. Currently, I am working as a Research Assistant Professor and head of Key Laboratory of Emergent Materials (KLEM) at the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University), Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. 

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I received PhD from Periyar University, Tamilnadu, India in 2014. Part of the PhD research work was carried out at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland during 2012-2013. Prior to working as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Aalto University, Finland, I was an Assistant Professor at PRIST University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India.

My PhD research focuses on crystal growth and characterization of small molecules such as cocrystals, salt, polymorphism and crystal structure solution. The crystals were grown for nonlinear optical and THz generation applications. Through Indo-Finnish scholarship POOL-2012, I got an opportunity to work at LUT, Finland during my Ph.D. I again visited LUT, Finland as visiting researcher to work on electric filed induced crystallization of TiO2 materials for photocatalytic applications.

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My first PostDoc was at CAS-State Laboratory of Crystalline Materials, Shandong University, China with funding support under China Postdoctoral International Exchange Program (Type-A). I worked on lanthanide-doped nanophosphors for LED applications. By earning experience in organic and inorganic materials through PhD, Research visit and Postdoc, I worked on non-classical crystallization of pharmaceutical drug molecules to improve their dissolution through the funding support of the European Union under H2020-MSCA-IF-2018. To par with my research experience, I have also worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, PRIST University, Tamilnadu during Jan-Sep 2019. I have published 25 research articles, - recipient of individual grants, 11 invited talks, supervised master and bachelor theses, acting as Reviewer and Guest editor. 

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