School of Basic Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
People
The Pillars of the Lab
Group Leader
Amit, known as AJ is the group leader of the AJ Lab. He is an assistant professor in the school of basic sciences, IIT Mandi. AJ is also an associate at The Indian Academy of Sciences.
Shounak Roy
Research Scholar
Shounak is a DST Inspire Fellow in the AJ Lab. He previously worked as a Project assistant in Cancer Biology & Inflammatory Disorder division at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. His area of research includes fabrication of novel 2D-material based nanocomposites for biomedical and environmental applications.
Prem Singh
Research Scholar
Prem is a PhD. scholar in the AJ Lab. He worked as a Team Leader in Quality Control department (Analytical Method Validation) at Cipla Pharmaceutical Ltd. and Panacea Biotec. His area of research includes synthesis of plasmonic nanostructures for SERS sensing, photothermal therapy and catalysis.
Ankita Sarkar
Research Scholar
Ankita is a PhD. scholar in the AJ Lab. Her research interest includes metal nanoparticle - polymer nanocomposites for drug delivery applications
Keshav Bhardwaj
Research Scholar
Keshav is a PhD. scholar in the AJ Lab. His research interest is in the fabrication of SERS substrate for trace analysis. Before joining the AJ Lab he worked as Junior Scientist at Medanta-The Medicity Hospital, and Research Assistant at Artemis Hospital.
Praveen Kumar
Research Scholar
Praveen is a PhD. scholar in the AJ Lab. His area of research is nanomaterial based biosensors.
Aastha
M.Tech. Project Student
Aastha is a M.Tech scholar in the AJ lab. Her research work includes analysis of interaction between 2D nano-materials and Biomolecules, for theranostics.
Saheli Sarkar
M.Tech. Project Student
Saheli is a M.Tech scholar in the AJ lab. Her research work is in the area of nanozymes
Alumni of our Lab
Giredhar Muthiah
M.Tech. Project Student
Giredhar is a M.Tech scholar in the AJ lab. He is working on nanomaterial based cancer theranostics under DAAD sandwich program.
Aditya Jaiswal
MSc. Project Student
Aditya is a MSc. project student in the AJ lab. He is working on the synthesis and biomedical application of polymeric nanoparticles.
Alumni of our lab
Kriti Shakya
M.Sc. Chemistry
Kriti worked in the AJ lab for her MSc. project (2018-2020). She worked on preparation of aerogels for oil spill removal.
Swachhatoa Ghosh
M. Tech. Biotechnology
Swachhatoa completed her M.Tech. project (2018-19) in the AJ Lab. She worked on the peroxidase like activity of gold nanorattles.
Ruptanu Banerjee
M.Tech. Biotechnology
Ruptanu worked for his M.Tech Project (2017) in the AJ Lab. Presently he is a PhD student in the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
Varnika Yadav
M.Sc. Chemistry
Varnika did her MSc project (2016-18) in the AJ Lab. She worked on the exfoliation of 2D MoS2 nanosheets and its antibacterial applications.
Pankaj Kumar
M.Sc. Chemistry
Pankaj worked in the AJ lab for his MSc. project (2017-19). He worked on the catalytic and sensing application of nanorattles.
Monika Ahlawat
M.Sc. Chemistry
Monika completed her MSc project in the AJ Lab (2016-18). Presently, she is doing PhD at IIT Kanpur.
Sonika
M.Sc. Chemistry
Sonika worked in the AJ Lab for her MSc project (2016-18), where she synthesized palladium nanorattles for catalytic applications
Present and Past Intern/Project Students
Dr. Ajith Kumar
Intern Student
(2019- 20)
BDS
Jitendra Choudhary
Intern Student
(July 2019)
BS-MS Chemical Engineering
IISER Bhopal
Anupam Mondal
Intern Student
(Feb - June, 2018)
MSc. Chemistry, Burdwan University
Current Position: PhD. at University of Burdwan
Virendra Majarikar
Intern Student
(June - July, 2015)
Current Position: Process Development Engineer at Micron Memory Inc., Hiroshima, Japan
Chandrasen Mohite
Intern Student
(2019- 20)
B.Tech. Biotechnology
BITS - Dubai
Kartikay Sadyal
Intern Student
(June - July, 2019)
B.Tech. Chemical Engineering
NIT Hamirpur
Prachi Bhatia
Intern Student
(March - May, 2019)
MSc. Chemistry, IIT Mandi
Current Position: PhD at IIT Roorkee
Dhruba Dhar
Project Student
(May - July, 2017)
Current Position: PhD at IIT Kharagpur
Prathamesh Joshi
Intern Student
(June - July, 2017)
B.Tech. - M.Tech. IIT-BHU
Current Position: Gurgaon- Axtria Analytics
Akansha Tripathi
Intern Project Student
(Jan - June, 2017)
M.Sc. Biotechnology, VIT University