Dhananjay Nandi

Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences (DPS)
E-mail: dhananjay [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
We are interested in studying low-energy electron molecule interactions in the gas phase. To facilitate this, we have developed state-of-the-art instrumentation over the years. We have developed a Velocity Map Imaging (VMI) spectrometer, a spectrometer for absolute cross-section measurement and a pulsed supersonic expansion setup to study molecular clusters. Research in this group involves development of the experimental setup and subsequent experimentation.
Academic Background:
- PhD (Science) (Molecular Physics), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (University of Mumbai), 2004
- MSc (Physics), Science College (University of Calcutta), 1998, Ranked Second (part I) & Third (Part II)
- BSc (Physics (Hons)), Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (University of Calcutta), 1996
Positions:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (2015 - 2019)
- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (2009 - 2015)
- Research Associate, Laboratory Francis PERRIN, CEA Saclay, France (2009 - 2009)
- Research Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (2008 - 2009)
- Guest Scientist, Free University, Berlin, Germany (2006 - 2007)
- Post-Doc, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (2004 - 2005)
Awards and Honors:
- INSA Medal for Young Scientist from Indian National Science Academy (2010)
- Best Thesis from Indian Society of Atomic and Molecular Physics (2004)
- Junior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (1998)
- Silver Medal from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur (1996)
Selected Publications:
- Paul, Anirban; Carmichael, Ian; Nandi, Dhananjay; Ptasinska, Sylwia and Chakraborty, Dipayan. 2024."Structural rearrangements and fragmentation pathways induced by a low-energy electron attachment to ethyl acetate." Physical Review A, 109, 042818
- Kundu, Narayan and Nandi, Dhananjay. 2024."Observation of Renner-Teller and predissociation coupled vibrionic intensity borrowing in dissociative electron attachment to OCS." Journal of Chemical Physics, 160, 114315
- Paul, Anirban; Nandi, Dhananjay; Slaughter, Daniel S.; Fedor, Juraj and Nag, Pamir. 2024."Dissociative electron attachment to carbon tetrachloride probed by velocity map imaging." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 26, 5783-5792
- Paul, Anirban; Ghosh, Soumya and Nandi, Dhananjay. 2023."Fragmentation dynamics and absolute dissociative electron attachment cross sections in the low energy electron collision with ethanol ." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25, 28263
- Kundu, Narayan; Kumar, Vikrant and Nandi, Dhananjay. 2023."Breakdown of dipole Born approximation and the role of Rydberg's predissociation for the electron-induced ion-pair dissociation in the presence of background gases." The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, 154305
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