Organic Electronics, Device Physics, Sensors and Detectors, Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology, Energy Harvesting Device.
Academic Background
Ph.D. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, 2020.
M.Sc. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, 2014
B.Sc. (Physics), The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India, 2012.
Positions
Assistant Professor, IISER-Kolkata (May 2026 - Present)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, United Kingdom (May 2025 - May 2026)
Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia (Dec 2021 – May 2025)
Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP), India (Sep 2021 – Dec 2021)
Research Assistant, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, (Oct 2020 – Aug 2021)
Awards and Honors
SEAL of Excellence European Commission (Horizon Europe)
Best Poster Award, International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices: IWPSD 2023
ACS Oral Presentation Award 2020, VCAN 2020.
Institute Fellowship (during Ph.D.) at IIT Kharagpur
Inspire Fellowship (Department of Science & Technology)
CSIR-UGC, India, Junior Research Fellowship
Inspire Scholarship ((Department of Science & Technology)
Selected Publications
S. Mandal*, A. V. Marsh, H. Faber, T. Ghoshal, D. K. Goswami, L. Tsetseris, M. Heeney, T. D. Anthopoulos, A Robust Organic Hydrogen Sensor for Distributed Monitoring Applications, Nature Electronics 8, 343-352 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-025-01352-y.
S. Mandal*, H. M. Mantilla, K. Loganathan, H. Faber, Abhinav Sharma, Murali Gedda, E. Yengel, D. K. Goswami, M. Heeney, T. D. Anthopoulos, Ultra‐Fast Moisture Sensor for Respiratory Cycle Monitoring and Non‐Contact Sensing Applications, Advance Materials 2414005 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202414005.
A. A. Said, E. Aydin, E. Ugur, Z. Xu, C. Deger, B. Vishal, A. Vlk, P. Dally, B. K. Yildirim, R. Azmi, J. Liu, E. A. Jackson, H. M. Johnson, M. Gui, H. Richter, A. R. Pininti, H. Bristow, M. Babics, A. Razzaq, S. Mandal, T. G. Allen, T. D. Anthopoulos, M. Ledinský, I. Yavuz, B. P. Rand, S. De Wolf, Sublimed C60 for efficient and repeatable perovskite-based solar cells, Nature Communications 15, 708 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44974-0.
L. Panagiotidis, F. Aniés, Y. Yu, M. Ghadiyali, H. Faber, Z. Bizak, Y. Kabri, P. Tzourmpakis, S. Mandal, L. Luo, T. Maksudov, M. I. Nugraha, H. F. Mazo‐Mantilla, P. Vanelle, J. Broggi, K. N Salama, U. Schwingenschlögl, M. Heeney, A. Shamim, T. D. Anthopoulos, n‐Type Polymer Radio Frequency Rectifiers Operating at 18.5 GHz, Advance Materials e22754 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202522754.
S. Mandal*, Y. Hou, M. Wang, T. D. Anthopoulos, K. L. Choy, Surface Modification of Hetero-phase Nanoparticles for Low-Cost Solution-Processable High-k Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, 5, 7371-7379 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c19559.
