Dr. Anupam Bera has been serving as an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad (UoH), since June 2024. In 2025, he was elected as a Young Associate Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bengaluru, in recognition of his emerging talented young scientist contributions to chemical sciences. The associateship is effective from 2026.
Dr. Bera’s research focuses on surface- and interface-specific spectroscopy with the aim of advancing renewable energy technologies. For the first time in India, he is developing operando and in-situ transient spectroscopic techniques to probe electrode–electrolyte and photoanode–electrolyte interfaces, providing critical insights into real-time interfacial processes.
Within just six months of joining the University of Hyderabad, his research proposals received major national recognition, securing funding from the Prime Minister’s Early Career Research (ECRG) Grant 2025, the ANRF PAIR Grant, and the Institute of Eminence (IoE, UoH) Grant.
Before his current position, Dr. Bera worked as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher and Habilitation Fellow at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, and as a Guest Scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena. His earlier postdoctoral training includes research appointments at the University of Duisburg–Essen, Germany, and the University of Jena.
Dr. Bera’s recent work on Na/K-ion batteries was featured on the cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces (2024). Additionally, his comprehensive investigation of alcohol dissociation on thin-film TiO₂ surfaces was highlighted in the commemorative volume “Sixty Years of Surface-Specific Spectroscopy” (2024).
Education:
Dr. Bera earned his Master’s degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) in 2013. He subsequently completed his PhD at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru in 2019, before undertaking multiple postdoctoral research positions in Germany