I, Dr. Subramanyan NV is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at NIT Calicut. Earlier, I worked as an INSPIRE faculty in School of materials science and engineering at NIT Calicut. I completed my PhD in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany under the guidance of Prof. Steffen Hardt in 2013. Later I worked as a Post-doctoral scientist at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (2013-2015) and Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS, Paris (2015-2016).

I have been awarded with ‘Inspire Faculty award’ in 2016, ‘Early Career Research Award’ in 2017 from the Government of India and 'Young Scientist award' from Kerala State Governments in 2020. My research interests include Optofluidics, all-optical systems and light actuated soft matter physics.

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Professional experience

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• 04.2018 - present:   Assistant Professor

                                          Department of Physics

                                          National Institute of Technology, Calicut, INDIA

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• 02.2016 - 4.2018:     DST-INSPIRE Faculty

                                           School of NanoScience and Technology

                                           National Institute of Technology, Calicut, INDIA

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• 03.2015 – 02.2016:   Post-doctoral scientist, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, FRANCE.

                                           Supervisor- Prof. Damien Baigl, Research area: Optofluidics  

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• 06.2013 – 02.2015:  Post-doctoral scientist, Center of Smart Interfaces, TU Darmstadt, GERMANY.

                                          Supervisor- Prof. Steffen Hardt, Research area: Optofluidics/Microfluidics

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Academics

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• 09.2009 – 05.2013:  Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, Center of Smart Interfaces, TU Darmstadt, Germany.  

                                          Supervisor: Prof. Steffen Hardt, Research area: Optofluidics/Microfluidics

                                          Thesis title: Light-induced Microfluidic Transport Phenomena

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• 10.2008 - 08.2009:   Research student, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India.             

                                           Supervisor: Prof. C. Sudha Kartha, Research area: Photopolymers/Holography

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• 09.2006 - 06.2008:   M.Phil. Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India.

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• 07.2004 - 05.2006:   M.Sc. Physics, Kannur University, India.

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• 07.2001 - 04.2004:   B.Sc. Physics, Kannur University, India. 

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Awards and Honors

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• INSPIRE Faculty Award (35 lakhs)

• SERB Early Career Research Award Project (47 lakhs)

• KSCSTE Kerala Young Scientist Award 

• FRG National Institute of Technology ( 6 lakhs)

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Link to my flickr account............

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