Alumni
Former postdoctoral researchers, project researchers, students, and visitors contributed to the group's work on batteries, defects, gapped metals, two-dimensional materials, and Casimir-Lifshitz physics.
Yang Quangang worked on hard-carbon electrode materials for metal-ion batteries during his time with the group at Fuzhou University/Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory, co-supervised with Prof. Yuxin Tang.
Gong Hao completed master's research on PEO-based electrolyte materials for metal-ion batteries, using classical molecular-dynamics simulations to connect polymer structure, ion transport, and electrolyte design. Following graduation, Gong Hao joined an R&D company in China working on metal-ion batteries.
Mathias, a long-term collaborator, joined the group as principal investigator of the Polonez Bis ACT:MEE project that he secured for work on Applied Casimir theory. His group work connected Casimir-Lifshitz physics, fluctuation forces, ice growth, and off-stoichiometric gapped metals, and he completed the project successfully.
Samir received his Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta in India and joined ENSEMBLE3 as part of the KeyTech project. His work focused on theoretical descriptions of hard-carbon electrode materials for Na-ion batteries, linking atomistic modeling to the current battery-materials program.
Harshan completed a BS-MS dual degree at IISER Pune in 2022. In the group he worked on doping physics in quantum materials, the physics of gapped metals, and post-processing codes for band-filling correction. He also designed tools for analyzing gapped-metal properties and, with Lovelesh, contributed to the understanding of noble-gas defects in functional oxides. He later joined a Ph.D. program at the University of Houston.
Lovelesh completed his Bachelor and Master studies in physics at Punjabi University and IIT Ropar. In the group, Lovelesh worked on defect theory in functional oxides, demonstrated the unusual nature of noble-gas defects, and analyzed how such defects can affect material properties and defect stability. Lovelesh also contributed to post-processing correction schemes for defect calculations and later joined a Ph.D. program at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Asha received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai in 2019 and later worked at IIT Bombay before joining ENSEMBLE3. Her work focused on low-dimensional systems, including materials realization, doping, and optoelectronic properties. Her group results were published in Matter and Cellulose, and she later joined the University of Udine as a postdoctoral researcher.
Himanshu received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Mizoram University in 2018 and worked as a research associate before joining ENSEMBLE3. In the group he worked on spin and structural symmetry breaking in polymorphous materials, including YNiO3 and halide-perovskite calculations. He later joined SRM University Sikkim as an assistant professor.
Rizwan brought experience in first-principles simulation and worked in the group on intrinsic transparent conductive oxides, the electronic-structure theory of gapped metals, and defect theory. He later moved to another postdoctoral position.
Hasan completed a master's degree in energy engineering at Shahid Beheshti University in Iran and joined the Inverse Materials Design group at ENSEMBLE3 in December 2022. During his stay, he worked on the design of materials for metal-ion batteries and later continued in another ENSEMBLE3 research group.
Mateusz received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Warsaw in 2018 and previously conducted industrial research on thin-film photovoltaic technology. In the group, he worked on computational descriptions of metal-insulator transitions in quantum materials, including pressure effects in YNiO3, and contributed to the off-stoichiometric gapped-metals research line. He later continued research at the University of Warsaw and CeNT.