People

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.

(L–>R) Shinto, Sreejesh, Sajib, Rama, Prosanta, and Gajendra

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