Dhananjay Nandi

Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences (DPS)
E-mail: dhananjay [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
Current:Low energy electron-molecule collision dynamics using novel velocity map imaging spectroscopic technique.Future:(i) Photo-electron/photo-ion imaging spectroscopy using femtosecond lasers.(ii) Energy-, time- and angle-resolved photo-electron spectroscopy from surfaces and interfaces using femtosecond lasers.
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:
- 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
- Paul, Anirban and Nandi, Dhananjay. 2022."Dissociative electron attachment dynamics of carbon disulphide and violation of axial recoil approximation near 6 eV resonance." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24, 21021
- Chakraborty, Dipayan and Nandi, Dhananjay. 2020."Absolute dissociative electron attachment cross-section measurement of difluoromethane." Physical Review A, 102, 052801
- Jana, Irina; Naskar, Sumit and Nandi, Dhananjay. 2020."Dissociative electron attachment to SO2 near 7.5 eV resonance and axial-recoil approximation." Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1412, 052005
- Nandi, Dhananjay; Jana, Irina and Ramaprasad, Varun. 2020."Dissociative electron attachment to supersonically cooled oxygen." Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1412, 172009
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