I am an experimental physicist studying light-matter interactions in quantum materials.
My research explores how excitons, magnons, and photons interact in low-dimensional quantum materials. I combine optical spectroscopy, microwave techniques, cavity photonics, and cryogenic measurements to study coupled excitonic, magnetic, and photonic phenomena in layered magnetic semiconductors. My earlier work focused on Berry curvature, topology, and quantum transport in moiré graphene systems.
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Recent Research
Microwave-to-optical transduction
Magnon–exciton coupling in a layered magnet converts microwave signals into light.
arXiv (2026)
Magnon-mediated exciton interactions
Spin excitations modify excitonic response and mediate nonlinear interactions.
Nature Materials 24, 1027 (2025)
Exciton-polaritons in magnetic materials
Optical anisotropy and confinement control polariton propagation and dispersion.
Advanced Materials, e12557 (2025)
Selected Publications
Magnon-mediated exciton-exciton interaction in a van der Waals antiferromagnet.
Nature Materials 24, 1027 (2025)
Directional flow of confined polaritons in CrSBr.
Advanced Materials, e12557 (2025)
Excitons in van der Waals magnetic materials.
Nature Materials (2026) (Invited Review article)
Berry curvature dipole senses topological transition in a moiré superlattice.
Nature Physics 18, 765-770 (2022)
Tunable moiré materials for probing Berry physics and topology.
Nature Reviews Materials 9, 481 (2024) (Invited Review article)
Perpendicular electric field drives Chern transitions and layer polarization changes in Hofstadter bands.
Nature Communications 13, 7781 (2022)
About
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the City College of New York with Prof. Vinod Menon. I completed my PhD at Tata Institute of Fundamental research (TIFR), Mumbai under the supervision of Prof. Mandar Deshmukh. Outside the laboratory, I develop software for experimental automation and occasionally write about science, technology, and society.