Principal Investigator

Prof. Ramakrishna Podila, PhD, FRSC, FInstP
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0978
Office: 864-656-0558
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Current Students
Shinto Francis (PhD Student, Y3): Ultrafast spectroscopy, ordered-disorder structures, and biosensors.
Sajib Mohonta (PhD Student, Y3): Tribo and thermoelectric materials, electrochemistry, and battery thermal management.
Gajendra Bohora (PhD Student, Y1): Solid-state electrolytes, Betavoltaics
Prosanta Pal (PhD Student, Y1): Quantum biophysics
Sreejesh Pattena Sankaramangalam (PhD Student, Y1): Ultrafast photoconductivity, charge density waves
Andrew Ferebee (MS/PhD student, Y1): Triboelectricity and BN-based betavoltaics.
Adeep Sen (BS): Battery thermal management using machine learning tools.
Alumni
Nawraj Sapkota (PhD-Physics Aug 24, Co-advisor)- Battery Engineer at Empower
Alan Rowland (MS-Physcis May 24)-Research Associate, Furman University
Patrick Barrett (REU, CofC) Summer 24
Miriam Vereen (REU, Claflin) Summer 24
Savion Brown (REU, Claflin) Summer 24
Christian Captain (NASA Palmetto Academy Undergrad Student) Summer 23
Annie McKay (NASA Palmetto Academy Undergrad Student) Summer 23
Micheal Rutland (Undergraduate) Summer 21
Autumn Reed (REU student July 21)
Shailendra Chiluwal (PhD-Physics Aug 21-Primary advisor)- Battery engineer at Philips66
Bipin Sharma (PhD-Physics Dec 20-Primary advisor)- Data Scientist at FedEx
Wren Gregory (Phd-Physics Aug 20-Primary advisor)- Senior Scientist at Precision Genetics
Achyut J. Raghavendra (PhD-Physics 18-Primary advisor)- Post-doctoral fellow at FDA
Fengjio Liu (Phd-Physics 19; Collaborator)-Atlis Motor Vehicles
Anthony S. Childress (PhD-Physics 18; Collaborator)- Post-doc at Northwestern University
Sai Sunil Kumar Mallineni (PhD-Physics 18; Co-advisor)- Intel
Yongchang Dong (Phd-Physics 18; Co-advisor)- Applied Materials
Christopher Etteh (BS, Claflin University)- Summer research ’18
Kymani Miller (BS, Claflin University)- Summer research ’18
Sindhu Manchikanti (B.Tech, VIT)-Summer research ’18
Balakrishnan Pillai (BS-Chemistry)- Presently at the Medical University of South Carolina
Bishwambhar Sengupta (MS-Physics)-Continued to do PhD in Medical Physics
Joseph Denison (MS-Physics)-Presently lecturer at Presbyterian College
Eamon Espey, High-school student.
Dr. Pradyumna Mulpur (Visiting post-doctoral scholar)
For Prospective Students: We have openings for interested graduate and undergraduate students. An acceptance from the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (or a related discipline) at Clemson University is necessary. We do NOT offer independent PhD positions. For more details about the physics PhD program, you may visit https://www.clemson.edu/science/departments/physics-astro/academics/graduate/prospective.html

