I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Schatz Group at Northwestern. My research interests centre around various topics related to light matter interactions. Currently, I am studying the interaction of light with plasmonic nanoparticle structures and other cavity structures with a primary focus on plasmon driven chemistry.

I grew up in Durgapur, the steel-city of eastern India. I received bachelor’s degree from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (2009) followed by a master’s degree from Jadavpur University (2011), both in Chemistry. The same year, I qualified all India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) and National Eligibility Test (NET) and was awarded with a Junior Research fellowship to pursue doctoral research. Following this, I joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata to research with Prof. Ashwani K. Tiwari in the field of Reaction Dynamics and earned my doctoral degree in 2017.

My doctoral research helped me to secure the prestigious H. C. Ørsted (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund) fellowship to research with Prof. Niels E. Henriksen at the Technical University of Denmark. Later I secured Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowship to research with Prof. Graham A. Worth at University College London.

Outside work, I enjoy hiking, biking, swimming, cooking, and watching good movies.