Suman Chowdhury
DST-INSPIRE Faculty
Department of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics    

S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,   Block JD, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700106






sumanc88@bose.res.in,
www.bose.res.in
Telephone +91-33-2335 5706/07/08 (extn: 268)

 

Educational Background:

  • B.Sc. from Presidency College (Kolkata, India) (2010)
  • M.Sc. from West Bengal State University (2012) (Ranked 1st)
  • PhD from Department of Physics, University of Calcutta (2017)

Professional Background:

  • Assistant Professor at Bangabasi College, Kolkata, India (2017-2019)

  • Research Scientist at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia (2019-2020)

  • Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India. (2021)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi (2022)

  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (2022-Present)

Main area of Research:

  • Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science

Research Interests:

  • Crystal structure prediction using evolutionary algorithm USPEX.
  • Studying materials under high pressure.
  • Electronic, optical, magnetic, vibrational properties of different pure and defect induced 2D materials.

  • Properties of 1-Dimensional nanowires.
  • Thermal and thermoelectric properties of different 2D materials by employing machine learning interatomic potential.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Significant Recent Publications: 

  • Suman Chowdhury, Santu Baidya, Dhani Nafday, Soumyajyoti Halder, Mukul Kabir, Biplab Sanyal, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, Debnarayan Jana, Abhijit Mookerjee, "A real-space study of random extended defects in solids: Application to disordered Stone-Wales defects in graphene", Physica E, 61, (2014), 191.
  • Palash Nath, Suman Chowdhury, D. Sanyal, Debnarayan Jana, "Ab-initio calculation of electronic and optical properties of nitrogen and boron doped graphene nanosheet", Carbon, 73, (2014), 275.
  • Arnab Majumdar, Suman Chowdhury, Palash Nath, Debnarayan Jana, "Defect induced magnetism in planar silicene: a first principles study", RSC Advances, 4, (2014), 32221.
  • Suman Chowdhury, Debnarayan Jana, "A theoretical review on electronic, magnetic and optical properties of silicene", Rep. Prog. Phys., 79, (2016), 126501 (57pp).
  • Arnab Majumdar, Suman Chowdhury, Rajeev Ahuja, "Ultralow Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Two Dimensional Thallium Selenide", ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 3 (2020) 9315-9325.
  • Arka Bandyopadhyay, Arnab Majumdar, Suman Chowdhury, Rajeev Ahuja, Debnarayan Jana, "8-16-4 graphyne: Rare Square Lattice Two-dimensional Material with Double Dirac Cones and Zak index", Phys. Rev. B 103 (2021) 075137.
  • Arnab Majumdar, Suman Chowdhury, Rajeev Ahuja, "Drastic Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Hexagonal AX (A= Ga, In & Tl, X = S, Se & Te) Monolayers due to Alternative Atomic Configuration" Nano Energy 88 (2021) 106248.
  • Zakhar I. Popov, Kseniya A. Tikhomirova, Victor A. Demin, Suman Chowdhury, Artem R. Oganov, Alexander G. Kvashnin, Dmitry G. Kvashnin, "Novel two-dimensional boron oxynitride predicted using USPEX evolutionary algorithm", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23 (2021) 26178
  • Supriya Ghosal, Suman Chowdhury, Debnarayan Jana, "Electronic and thermal transport properties of a new carbon-based 2D bilayer with tetra rings: combining first-principles and machine learning approach" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23 (2021) 14608 (Included in the themed collection : 2021 PCCP HOT Articles).
  • Supriya Ghosal, Suman Chowdhury, Debnarayan Jana, "Impressive thermoelectric characteristics of two dimensional pnictogens : combining first-principles and machine learning approach", ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 13 (2021) 59092-59103.

 

 

 

 

 

     

     

     

 
 
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