
Amitava Adak
Assistant Professor and Team Leader
Email: amitavaadak@iitism.ac.in
Office no: 0326-223-5382
Mob: +91 9800038463
Office Room: 608/B, Department of Physics, Academic Complex.
Laboratory-608/A, Department of Physics, Academic Complex.
Dr. Amitava Adak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India. He completed his B.Sc. in Physics from Jadavpur University, West Bengal in 2009. Thereafter, he joined TIFR, Mumbai for M.Sc. and PhD. He got the first opportunity there to work in the area of very high intensity femtosecond laser matter interaction with Prof. G. Ravindra Kumar. In 2016 he joined JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA as a Research Associate and worked at the frontier of High Harmonic Generation. He came back to India in 2020 and joined IIT (ISM) Dhanbad as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics.

Jyotsna Patra
PhD student
Jyotsna did her Integrated MSc in physics from NIT ROURKELA, India. She has joined the group in 2022. Her research interest is on Intense Short Pulse Laser-Plasma Interactions, pulsed laser ablation of solid inside liquid, green synthesis of nanoparticles and its applications.

Poulami Das
PhD student
Poulami had completed her Bachelor and Master of Science in Physics from Visva Bharati university, West Bengal. She was the first rank holder in her Master's degree. Poulami joined the group in December 2022. Her research interest is in intense laser-plasma dynamics and spectroscopy.

Satyaranjan Satyajit
PhD student
Satyaranjan completed his B.Sc. from Nayagarh Autonomous College, Odisha in 2019. Then He joined IIT Madras in 2020 for his MSc in Physics. He joined the group in 2023 July. His broad research interest is on ultrafast laser-plasma dynamics and high harmonic generation.
Project Students

Satvik Arya
B. Tech. Project

Khethavath Sudhakar
B. Tech. Project

Stavan Brahmbhatt
B. Tech. Project

Arpan Dey
M. Sc.. Project

Suranjan Atta
M. Sc.. Project
Alumni
Shibesh Pramanik (2022-2023)
Former MSc Project Student. Currently affiliated as Research Scholar at IIT Guwahati.
Prithwiraj Maity (2022-2023)
Former MSc Project Student. Currently affiliated as Research Scholar at IISER Bhopal.
Shantanu Dhara (2022-2023)
Former MSc Project Student. Currently affiliated as Research Scholar at IIT Guwahati.
Abhijit Roy (2021-2022)
Former MSc Project Student.
Souvik Kumar Rana (2021-2022)
Former MSc Project Student.
Tejaswi Yadamreddy (2021-2022)
Former BTech Project Student. Currently affilated as Product Analyst at Sprinklr, Bangalore.
Bhinva Ram (2020-2022)
Former MSc Project Student. Currently affiliated as a PhD scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany