Kirori Mal College
(University of Delhi)
University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
(Phone No. - 011-7121 9084 : Email - principal@kmc.du.ac.in)
Print Date : 17-05-2024
1. Personal Profile
Title: Dr.   First Name: Pushpendra   Last Name: Kumar img
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2. Educational Qualifications
Degree/ Certification Institution Year
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) Mandi, India 2017
M.Sc. Physics (Specialization: Electronics) Hindu College Moradabad, M.J.P.R. University 2009
B.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry and Maths) Hindu College Moradabad, M.J.P.R. University 2006
3. Career Profile & Administrative Assignments
Category Role/ Designation Department/ Committee Date From - To Remarks
CAREER PROFILE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PHYSICS KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 15.Dec.2022 - Till date Permanent Faculty
CAREER PROFILE POST DOCTORATE PHYSICS Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz Germany 01.Mar.2021 - 30.Nov.2022 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Rhineland Pflaz, Germany
CAREER PROFILE POST DOCTORATE CHEMISTRY Technical University of Munich, Germany 01.Dec.2019 - 28.Feb.2021 Dynamic Spectroscopy, Technical University of Munich, Germany
CAREER PROFILE POST DOCTORATE PHYSICS Lund University Sweden 01.May.2017 - 31.Jul.2019 Division of Chemical Physics, Lund University Sweden
CAREER PROFILE POST DOCTORATE PHYSICS Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) Mandi, India 23.Jan.2017 - 25.Apr.2017 Research Associate, SBS, I.I.T. Mandi, India
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER PORTAL COMMITTEE KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Jun.2023 - 31.May.2024 Member
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER MEDIA COMMITTEE KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Jun.2023 - 31.May.2024 Member
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER CAREER DEVELOPMENT CELL KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Jun.2023 - 31.May.2024 Member
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER RESEARCH COUNCIL KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Jun.2023 - 31.May.2024 Member
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS MEMBER SC/ST CELL KIRORI MAL COLLEGE, DELHI 01.Jun.2023 - 31.May.2024 Member
4. Other Profiles
Other Profile Name/ Description
SUBJECTS TAUGHT

Solid State Physics (Theory)

Thermal Physics and Statistical Mechanics (Theory)

Analog Systems and Applications (Practical)

Waves and Optics (Practical)

Digital Empowerment (Value Added Course)

CERTIFICATE COURSE/ SHORT TERM COURSE ORGANIZED

2- day Hands on workshop on Arduino Programming

AREAS OF INTEREST/ SPECIALIZATION

Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Terahertz (THz) Spectroscopy

Optical Nonlinear Spectroscopy

Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

Multiphoton Micro-spectroscopy

Photo-impedance Spectroscopy of Photoactive Devices

Photo-physics of Perovskites Materials and Devices

Interfacial Charge and Energy Transfer Processes in Organic/ Inorganic hybrid Systems

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, March 2020.

Best Presentation Award in 20th International Conference on Ultrafast Optics and Applications “ICOU 2018” Mumbai, India February 22 - 23, 2018.

Best Paper Award in 20th International Conference on Ultrafast Optics and Applications “ICOU 2018” Mumbai, India February 22 - 23, 2018.

Certificate for Appreciation as a session chair in 20th International Conference on Ultrafast Optics and Applications “ICOU 2018” Mumbai, India February 22 - 23, 2018.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Division of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Sweden, May 2017- May 2019.

SERB National Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, January 2017.

Scholarship: Senior research fellow (SRF), Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India, October 2012-June 2016.

Scholarship: Junior research fellow (JRF), Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India, October 2010- 2012.

Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) in Physics 2010.


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Research Projects

Exploring Ultrafast Charge Carrier Dynamics in Lead-Free “Green” Perovskite Materials: A Search for Novel Optoelectronics (May 2021-  November 2023)

Project no. P.S. POLY 7559

Research Collaboration:

Prof. Mischa Bonn and Dr. Hai Wang

Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research Mainz, Mainz Germany.


Designing and conducting ultrafast experiments on photoelectric systems (December 2019- February 2020)

Research Collaboration:

Prof. Jurgen Hauer,the laboratory for dynamic spectroscopies,    

Technical University of Munich, Munich Germany.


Two-photon induced photocurrent and fluorescence measurements of photoactive devices for optoelectronic applications (May 2017- August 2019)

Research Collaboration:

Asst. Prof.  Khadga Jung Karki and Prof. Tonu Pullerits

Division of Chemical Physics, Lund University Sweden.


Carrier multiplication in electronically coupled nanocrystals and harvesting (January 2017- April 2017)

Research Collaboration:

Prof. Suman Kalyan Pal, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Mandi, India

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Alexander von Humboldt Research Foundation, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Rhineland Pflaz, Germany

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Chemical Physics, Lund University Sweden, Lund, Sweden

Indian Institutes of Technology (I.I.T), Mandi, India


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Reviewer

Reviewer for international journal Wiley-VCH, ‘Physica Status Solidi (b) – Basic Solid-State Physics'

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Conference/Workshops/Talk

Attended

The Virtual Conference “Coordination Networks: Building Blocks for Functional Systems (COORNETs) WebCon 2021” at TUM Garching, Germany on 19th - 20th of January 2021.

Invited Talk

Talk on “Visualization of excitonic and free charge recombination in MAPbBr3 perovskite by two-photon phase modulated photoluminescence spectroscopy” Chemical Physics Science Day Bosjökloster, Sweden May 24, 2019.

Talk on “Photoimpedence Spectroscopy and its Applications” in Chemical Physics Lund University Sweden, April 5, 2018.

Talk on "Photoimpedance Spectroscopy of Planar and Nano Textured Solar Cells" in Optics Meeting, Solid State Physics, Lund University Sweden, November 17, 2017.

Oral Presentation

Seminar on “Nonlinear Spectroscopy using Modulated Light Fields” in Chemical Physics Lund University Sweden, February 21, 2019.

Photoimpedance Spectroscopy Analysis of Planar and Nano-Textured Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells in 20th International Conference on Ultrafast Optics and Applications“ICOU 2018” Mumbai, India February 22 - 23, 2018.

Sensitization of ZnO QD by Adsorbed Novel Coumarine Dye for DSSC Applications: Spectroscopic and First-Principles Studies in 27th International Conference on Photochemistry, ICC JEJU, Jeju Island, South Korea, June 28 – July 3 2015.

Charge Transfer in MK-2 Dye Sensitized Quantum Dots for Type-II Sensitized Solar Cell in the Research Fair, Anusandhan, IIT Mandi, June 2014.

Defect associated energy transfer from semiconductor nanocrystals to an adsorbed dye in IIT Mandi, May 1, 2013.

Poster Presentation

Pushpendra Kumar; Exploring ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in perovskite materials in the department retreat at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer (MPIP) research Mainz, Germany, May 2-4, 2022.

Pushpendra Kumar and Khadga Jung Karki; Two-photon excitation spectroscopy using phase modulation in the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2018 in NanoLund, Lund University Sweden, October 4, 2018.

Pushpendra Kumar and Khadga Jung Karki; Phase modulated two-photon excitation spectroscopy reveals low lying electronic states of 1, 5 Diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene in the Nordic Femto 13. South Campus, University of Copenhegen Denmark, August 16-17, 2018.

Zhengjun Wang, Pushpendra Kumar, Shiwen Lei, Andreas Jakobsson, Khadga Karki and Tönu Pullerits; Optimized sampling and Reconstruction of LH2 spectroscopy in Swedish e-Science Academy 2017, Umeo University Sweden, October 11-12, 2017.

Pushpendra Kumar, Moataz Mostafa Kamel, David Eisenhauer, Christiane Becker, Tonu Pullerits and Khadga Jung Karki; Photoimpedance Spectroscopy Analysis for Planar and Nano Textured Silicon thin-film Solar Cells in the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2017 in NanoLund, Lund University Sweden, September 7, 2017.

Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal; Ultrafast Direct and Indirect Electron Injection in Dye Anchored Semiconductor Quantum Dots: Femtosecond and Density Functional Theory Insights in the “Recent Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications in Materials and Biology (RAMS-2016)”, organized at the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, hyderabad, India March 2-4 2016.

Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal; Ultrafast Charge Transfer from novel synthesised BC5 dye to ZnO Quantum Dot in the Research Fair, IIT Mandi, February 27, 2016.

Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal; Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Dye Sensitized ZnO Quantum Dot in the International workshop and conference on Frontiers of spectroscopy (ICFS-2015) Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India january 8-9, & 10-12, 2015.

Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal; Charge Transfer in MK-2 Dye Sensitized ZnO Quantum Dots: a Combined Theoretical and Experimental study in the National Symposium on Advanced Materials (NSAM) IIT Mandi, May 27-28, 2014.

Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal; Spectroscopic Analysis of Photoinduced Interaction Between MK-2 Dye and ZnO nanorods in the Research Fair, IIT Mandi, June 2013.

Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal; Quenching of Visible Photoluminescence of ZnO Nanocrystals by Rhodamine B in the National Fluorescence Workshop (FCS 2012) of Fluorescence Methods in Single Molecule Spectroscopy at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) and Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB) Kolkata, December 03 – 07, 2012.

Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal; Quenching of Defect Emission of ZnO Quantum Dot in the Presence of Fluorescein Dye in the National Symposium on Nanobiotechnology, IIT Mandi, June 1-2, 2012.

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COUNTRY VISITED: 12 

Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, France, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Bahrain and South Korea

5. Research Guidance
Year Guide For Title of the Dissertation/ Thesis Scholar Name Status
6. Research Projects
Year Title of Project Sponsorship Agency Duration Amount Sanctioned Date of Sanction
2020 Exploring Ultrafast Charge Carrier Dynamics in Lead-Free “Green” Perovskite Materials: A Search for Novel Optoelectronics Alexander von Humboldt Research Foundation, Germany 2021-2023 01.Nov.2020
7. Publications
Category Publication Name Title Name of Author Reference Link/
DOI Link
Publication
(Month-Year)
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Temperature-Dependent Intensity Modulated Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence Microscopy for High Resolution Mapping of Charge Carrier Dynamics ACS Phys. Chem Au Qi Shi, Pushpendra Kumar , and Tönu Pullerits
(Joint Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphyschemau.3c00013 July
2023
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Recent advances of multiphoton absorption in metal–organic frameworks J. Mater. Chem. C Sebastian J Weishäupl, David C Mayer, Yang Cui, Pushpendra Kumar, Harald Oberhofer, Roland A Fischer, Jürgen Hauer, Alexander Pöthig
(Joint Author)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TC00191H April
2022
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Highly mobile hot holes in Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskite Science Advances Heng Zhang, Elke Debroye, Wenhao Zheng, Shuai Fu, Lucia D Virgilio, Pushpendra Kumar, Mischa Bonn, Hai I Wang
(Joint Author)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj9066 December
2021
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Kinetics of near-infrared-to-visible upconversion in rubrene: An initial excitation of triplets Physical Review B Pushpendra Kumar, Durga Prasad Kandel, Adhikari Rajendra, Rahaman Ahibur, J. Karki Khadga
(First Author)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L140308 October
2021
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
New Nonlinear Optical Crystal of Rhodamine 590 Acid Phthalate ACS Omega Bamini Nariyangadu, Tenzin Choedak, Ezekiel Joy Padma Malar, Junsheng Chen, Erling Thyrhaug, Pushpendra Kumar, Jinming Zhou, Vidyalakshmi Yechuri, Suman Kalyan Pal, Sven Lidin, Kejalakshmy Namassivayane Thangadhorai, Khadga J. Karki, Tönu Pullerits
(Joint Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c02303 August
2020
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Enhanced Radiative Recombination of Excitons and Free Charges Due to Local Deformations in the Band Structure of MAPbBr3 Perovskite Crystals J. Phys. Chem. C Pushpendra Kumar, Qi Shi, Khadga Jung Karki
(First Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01968 May
2019
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Two-photon excitation spectroscopy of 1, 5--Diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene using phase modulation J. Phys. Commun. Pushpendra Kumar, Khadga Jung Karki
(First Author)
DOI 10.1088/2399-6528/aafc0a March
2019
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Phonon Coupling with Excitons and Free Carriers in Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Supriya Ghosh, Qi Shi, Bapi Pradhan, Pushpendra Kumar, Zhengjun Wang, Somobarta Acharya, Suman Kalyan Pal, Tonu Pullerits, Khadga Jung Karki
(Joint Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01729 July
2018
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Variations in the Composition of the Phases Lead to the Differences in the Optoelectronic Properties of MAPbBr3 Thin Films and Crystals J. Phys. Chem. C Qi Shi, Supriya Ghosh, Pushpendra Kumar, Laura C Folkers, Suman Kalyan Pal, Tõnu Pullerits, Khadga J Karki
(Joint Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b06937 September
2018
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Variation in the Photocurrent Response Due to Different Emissive States in Methylammonium Lead Bromide Perovskites J. Phys. Chem. C Qi Shi, Supriya Ghosh, Abdus Salam Sarkar, Pushpendra Kumar, Zhengjun Wang, Suman Kalyan Pal, Tõnu Pullerits, Khadga J Karki
(Joint Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b00542 February
2018
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Role of ZnS Segment on Charge Carrier Dynamics and Photoluminescence Property of CdSe@CdS/ZnS Quantum Rods J. Phys. Chem. C Pushpendra Kumar, Rajeev Ray, Patrick Adel, Franziska Luebkemann, Dirk Dorfs, Suman Kalyan Pal
(First Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12223 February
2018
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Photoimpedance Spectroscopy Analysis of Planar and Nano-Textured Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences P Kumar, D Eisenhauer, MMK Yousef, Q Shi, ASG Khalil, MR Saber, C Becker, T Pullerits, KJ Karki
(Corresponding Author)
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1316460 March
2018
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Quenching of the Excitonic Emission of ZnO Quantum Dots Due to Auger-Assisted Hole Transfer to CdS Quantum Dots J. Phys. Chem. C Supriya Ghosh, Mihir Ghosh, Pushpendra Kumar, Abdus Salam Sarkar, and Suman Kalyan Pal
(Joint Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11011 November
2016
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Ultrafast multiexponential electron injection dynamics at a dye and ZnO QD interface: a combined spectroscopic and first principles study Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Pushpendra Kumar and Suman Kalyan Pal
(First Author)
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP04610J September
2016
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Femtosecond insights into direct electron injection in dye anchored ZnO QDs following charge transfer excitation Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Pushpendra Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Subrata Ghosh, Suman Kalyan Pal
(First Author)
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP01721E June
2016
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Exploring an Emissive Charge Transfer Process in Zero-Twist Donor-Acceptor Molecular Design as a Dual-State Emitter J. Phys. Chem. C Sunil Kumar, Punita Singh, Pushpendra Kumar, Renu Srivastava, Suman Kalyan Pal, Sobrata Ghosh
(Joint Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b01351 May
2016
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Ab Initio Assessment of the Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of Organic–ZnO Nanoclusters J. Phys. Chem. A Pushpendra Kumar, Suman Kalyan Pal
(First Author)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5b04109 September
2015
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Global analysis of quenching of the time-resolved emission of ZnO nanocrystals by adsorbed rhodamine B on the basis of Tachiya theory J. Photochem. Photobiol. A Pushpendra Kumar, Torbjörn Pascher, M. Tachiya, Suman Kalyan Pal
(First Author)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2014.09.011 September
2014
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Role of decoupled defect transitions of ZnO nanocrystals in energy transfer J. Photochem. Photobiol. A Pushpendra Kumar, Suman Kalyan Pal
(First Author)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2013.12.021 January
2014
JOURNAL PAPER
(International)
Materials for optical, magnetic and electronic devices J. Mater. Chem Sebastian J Weishäupl, David C Mayer, Yang Cui, Pushpendra Kumar, Harald Oberhofer, Roland A Fischer, Jürgen Hauer, Alexander Pöthig, CG Sanjayan, MS Jyothi, R Geetha Balakrishna
(Joint Author)
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/tc/d2tc90095e April
2022
8. Books
Category Book Name Title Name of Author ISSN/ ISBN Number
9. Faculty Achievements
Year Category of Achievement Role National/ International etc. Name Date From-To
2023 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ATTENDED ASSISTANT PROFESSOR National 4-Week Faculty Induction/Orientation Programme for “Faculty in Universities/Colleges/Institutes of Higher Education” 20.Jan.2023 - 18.Feb.2023
2023 REFRESHER COURSE ATTENDED ASSISTANT PROFESSOR National Online two-week refresher course in "Physics" 27.Feb.2023 - 13.Mar.2023
2023 WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCE ATTENDED ASSISTANT PROFESSOR College 2- day Hands on workshop on Arduino Programming 24.Mar.2023 - 25.Mar.2023
 
 
Dr. Pushpendra Kumar