Dean - Research

Prof. Ranjit Thapa

Department of Physics

Interests
  • Carbon and Boron Based Materials
  • Catalyst: Theory
  • Machine Learning Approach
  • Quantum Mechanics
Education
2002
Bachelors
University of North Bengal
India
2004
Masters
University of North Bengal
India
2011
PhD
Jadavpur University
India
Experience
  • August 2023 – Till-date, Dean-Research, SRM University-AP
  • May 2019 – Till-date, Professor, Department of Physics, SRM University-AP
  • Feb 2023- September 2023, Dean (In-Charge), School of Engineering And Sciences, SRM University – AP
  • June 2022- Feb 2023, Associate Dean – Sciences (In-Charge), SEAS, SRM University-AP
  • Nov 2019 – June 2022, Head, Department of Physics, SRM University-AP
  • Mar 2017 – May 2019, Associate Professor (Research) | SRM Research Institute, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
  • Jan 2013 – Mar 2017, Assistant Professor (Research) | SRM Research Institute, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
  • Jan 2012 – Jan 2013, Post-Doctoral Fellow | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
  • Jan 2011 – Jan 2012, Research Associate | Indian Association for the cultivation of Science
Research Interests
  • Automated Pipeline named “Padarth Khoj” to identify battery materials, Catalysts.
  • General Descriptor of functional catalyst using Quantum Mechanics/Machine Learning Technique. Catalytic Reactions are CO Oxidation, OER/HER/ORR, NRR.
  • Correlation of “the degree of CO2 bending during adsorption” with “reduction pathways” and then categorized the mechanism for 2D materials.
Awards & Fellowships
  • 2023, Outstanding Teacher Award, 2023, SRM University-AP
  • 2018, Young Scientist Research Award, Department of Atomic Energy, India.
  • 2016, Associateship, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India.
  • 2015, ICTP-Full support fellowship-to attend “Workshop on Material Science for Energy Storage”, Abdus Salam International Centre For Theoretical Physics (ICTP),Trieste, Italy.
  • 2014, International Travel Grant, Science and Engineering Research Board.
  • 2005, GATE (Physical Science), IITs.
  • 2005, CSIR-JRF (Physical Science), CSIR-UGC NET.
  • 2005, JEST (Physical Science), Research Institute, India.
  • 2004, 1st Class 1st (MSc. Physics), University of North Bengal.
Memberships
  • Core Member of Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science
  • Life Member of Indian Science Congress Association
Publications

No publications found.

Contact Details

ranjit.t@srmap.edu.in

Scholars

Doctoral Scholars

  • Ms Bindhya Krishna R
  • Ms Anjali Prajapati
  • Mr Arupjyoti Pathak
  • Mr Sourav Ghosh
  • Mr Samim Reza
  • Mr Narad Barman
  • Mr Asif Iqbal
  • Mr E S Erakulan