Kamaraju Natarajan
Associate Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences (DPS)
E-mail: nkamaraju [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Ultrafast dynamics and emergent phenomena in quantum materials, with emphasis on nonequilibrium interactions among spins, excitons, phonons, and other collective modes. Development and application of advanced spectroscopic techniques—including femtosecond pump–probe, terahertz (THz), nonlinear optical methods, and stimulated Raman spectroscopy—to probe light–matter interactions, coherent dynamics, and coupling between electronic, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom. Particular emphasis is placed on strongly correlated systems, superconductors, and low-dimensional materials, with nonlinear responses under intense THz fields offering routes toward novel devices, metamaterials, and energy-harvesting platforms.
- PhD (Ultrafast Experimental Condensed Matter Physics), Indian Institute of Science, 2010
- MSc (Physics), Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learn (Sri Sathya Sai University (Deemed)), 2000
- BSc(Hons.) (Physics), Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learn (Sri Sathya Sai University (Deemed)), 1998
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Assistant Professor and Department of Physical Sci, IISER Kolkata (2016 - 2021)
- Postdoc Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laborotaries (2013 - 2016)
- Postdoc Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2012 - 2013)
- Visiting Scientist, Fritz Haber Max Planck Gelleshaft (2010 - 2012)
- Outstanding Reviewer 2018 from Nature:Light Science Applications (2019)
- Fritz Haber Maxplanck Fellowship from Max Planck Gelleshaft Germany (2010)