I am very pleased to announce that our team is growing. Dr Bandaru has just joined our group and he will stay with us for the next two years.
Dr. Bandaru will contribute the group in understanding the new two-dimensional nanomaterials from the MBenes family using the Density functional Theory (DFT) approach and in parallel, collaborating with the ongoing and experimental works. Previously, his postdoctoral research work from 2018 to 2020 at LTNFM, CENT, University of Warsaw, Dr. Bandaru studied the polaron tendency formation in high temperature superconducting material, AgF$_2$ using the first principle calculations. He finished his Ph.D. degree at ICGM, University of Montpellier, France in the year 2017 with the doctoral thesis entitled “Design of new Heusler-type thermoelectric materials: application to Fe$_2$VAl”. He received his second Master’s degree in Materials Science and Simulations from ICAMS, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany in 2013 while his first Master’s degree in Physics is from Pondicherry University, India in 2008. Being furnished with a solid foundation in Material Science, Dr. Bandaru’s focus has been on investigating materials theoretically as well as experimentally for various applications from the past few years. His current research interests are: DFT calculations, microstructural properties, material characterization, nanomaterials and eco-friendly materials.