Sankaran Ramesh

I am an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary and Convergent Technologies (CIDCT), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. At SRLab, I am currently involved in establishing ultrafast spectroscopy and imaging capabilities for direct investigation of hybrid materials.

At SRLab we ask the question : How does structural arrangement and coupling of parts in a material give rise to properties that the individual parts do not possess? For example, directed energy flow in a heterostructure, transfer of optical chirality at a hybrid interface, and charge localisation in deformable ionic structures. We use the techniques of ultrafast spectroscopy to observe these phenomena directly. You can find more in our Research page. ​​

Before joining IIT-KGP, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chemical Physics Division, Lund University, Sweden with Tönu Pullerits, where I developed techniques of coherent phonon spectroscopy and spectroscopy using quantum light. I completed my Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where I was advised by Tze Chien Sum.

For more details, you can check my CV.