Dr. Sankaran Ramesh, an alumnus completed his Integrated M.Sc. (2018) in Physics, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad (UoH), graduated with the University Gold Medal appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
Dr. Sankaran Ramesh
Dr. Ramesh moved to Singapore for his doctorate at Nanyang Technological University, entering the then-rapidly expanding field of metal halide perovskites at a moment when their photophysics were still poorly understood. His PhD work focused on the ultrafast dynamics of charges in hybrid perovskite materials, a class of materials now rivalling silicon solar cells in efficiency. He simultaneously built experimental capability, developing advanced time-resolved spectroscopy platforms that could observe ultrafast snapshots of quantum processes in materials.
In 2023, he moved to Lund University in Sweden as a postdoctoral researcher in Tönu Pullerits’s group, where his research pivoted decisively toward the intersection of ultrafast spectroscopy, chirality, and the role of lattice vibrations in governing spin and charge dynamics.
In January 2026, Dr. Ramesh returned to India as a Ramanujan Faculty Fellow at IIT Madras – one of the most competitive early-career research fellowships in Indian science, awarded by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation. An offer from IIT Kharagpur led him to take up an Assistant Professorship at the Advanced Technology Development Centre in April 2026, where he is starting a research group that investigates light-matter interactions in hybrid perovskites, low-dimensional materials and chiral nanostructures.