Biography
I am a Herchel Smith Research Fellow working in the Semiconductor Physics group, Cavendish Laboratory. I am interested in many-body effects in low-density 2DEGs and study a variety of properties including thermopower, thermal conductivity and magnetic susceptibility of 2DEGS to understand the phase behaviour of strongly-interacting electrons. I am also a Fellow at Wolfson College. Prior to my Herchel Smith Fellowship, I was a UKIERI (UK-India Education and Research Initiative) Fellow working on a collaborative project between the Low-Temperature Nano-Electronics Group, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science and the Semiconductor Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.
I received my PhD in 2009 from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science where I studied the non-equilibrium phase behaviour of agitated granular rods in a quasi-2D geometry. I analysed the collective behaviour of the rods in light of theories of flocking and revealed that the number-density fluctuations of the rods were consistent with those predicted to occur in active nematics.
Research
- Low-temperature thermoelectric measurements
- Thermal and thermoelectric transport in 2D electron gases
- Mesoscopic systems
- Topological insulators & spin-orbit coupled superconductors: electrical and thermal transport properties
Publications
Teaching and Supervisions
- Lecturer: Physics at the Nanoscale (NanoMPhil, Department of Materials Science , University of Cambridge)
- Departmental supervisor: Part II Thermal & Statistical Physics and Part II Quantum Condensed Matter Physics
