Welcome to Harsh, a new postdoc in the group

Postdoctoral Researcher (01 March 2022 – 31 May 2023)

I am working as postdoctoral research associate in the groups of Prof. Giorgio Volpe and Dr Bob Schroeder to develop organic semiconductor materials for printing applications. I received my M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Central University of Kerala (India) in 2015. In 2016, I joined Dr Debdas Ray’s group at Shiv Nadar University (India) first as a Junior Research Fellow and then as Ph.D. research scholar. During my Ph.D., my research was based on designing, synthesising and understanding the photophysical properties of purely organic persistent luminescence-based room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials. Alongside, my research interest was to develop thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) based molecules and understanding the photophysics of simultaneous TADF and RTP from these single molecular systems. I completed my Ph.D. in October 2020 and then moved to University College London (UCL) in March 2021 as postdoctoral research associate under the joint supervision of Dr Robert Palgrave and Dr Bob Schroeder to work on Bismuth based coordination complexes for solar light absorption.