Harikrishnan Gopalakrishnan
Post-Doc Researcher
Curriculum Vitae
since 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher in Nano-spectroscopy group, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Supervisor: Prof. Marta De Luca.
2023-2024
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Scanning Probe Microscopy and Plasmonics Group, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Project: Harnessing direct and indirect excitons in TMDCs for photo-stimulated device applications (STARS-MoE, Govt of India)
PI: Prof. Joy Mitra.
Project: Functionalizing the next-generation 2D semiconductors for optoelectronic and catalytic applications via ion irradiation (SPARC-UKIERI)
PI’s: Prof. Ravi Silva, Director, ATI. Prof. Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Director, Ion Beam Center, University of Surrey, UK & Prof. Joy Mitra, IISER TVM
2017-2023
Ph.D. in Physics (INSPIRE Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India)
School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Supervisor: Prof. Joy Mitra.
Thesis Title: Optoelectronic and Transport Properties of Nanostructured Hybrids of ZnO PEDOT:PSS and Ni-TiO2.
Indo-Poland Joint Project (2020-2023) A novel heterostructure architecture for photodetection and photo-enhanced electron emission applications (Indo-Poland Project); Prof. Dorota A. Pawlak, Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Department of Functional Materials, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Exchange Visit Student (2018) Nanoscale writing of bespoke Graphene devices for electronic and plasmonic scalable technologies (UGC-UKIERI); Prof. Ravi P Silva, Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), University of Surrey, UK.
2016-2017
Project Assistant
School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Supervisor: Prof. Joy Mitra
Project: Nanoscale Schottky Junction for sub-ppm hydrogen detection (DST-SERB Grant)
2011-2016
BS MS Integrated Dual Degree; Physics (Major) and Chemistry (Minor)
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Sapienza University of Rome,
Physics Department
Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department