Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Nanostructures Engineering and MOdeling (NEMO) Laboratory
Principal Investigators
Prof. Sumit Saxena, PhD, FIMMM, FNESA, FRSC
Professor
Prof. Saxena obtained his Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA. He moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana champaign (UIUC) and then to Harvard University for his Postdoctoral research. He is a fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOMMM) UK, fellow of the National Environmental Science Academy (FNESA) India, fellow of the University of Birmingham India Institute, UK, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) London, Member of the Materials Research Society India (MRSI).
Phone: (+91) 022-2576-7615
Email: sumit.saxena[at]iitb.ac.in
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
ORCID, Google Scholar, Linkedin, ResearchGate
Prof. Shobha Shukla, PhD
Professor
Senior Member, Optical Society of America
Prof. Shukla obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York, Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo), USA. She moved to Harvard University for her Postdoctoral research. She is a fellow of the University of Birmingham India Institute UK, member of the National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), India. She is the Center & Professor-in-charge of the water innovation center (WICTRE) at IIT Bombay. She is the editorial board member for Scientific Reports published by Nature Publishing Group and Journal of Physics - Photonics published by IOP.
Phone: (+91) 022-2576-7607
Email: sshukla[at]iitb.ac.in
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Sudhir Kumar
Dr. Sudhir Kumar is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at the IIT Bombay, India. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from IIT Kharagpur, in 2026. His research focuses on energy storage and conversion technologies, with extensive experience in the synthesis, characterization, and electrochemical evaluation of advanced functional materials for batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalytic water splitting. Dr. Kumar earned his BS-MS dual degree in Materials Science from the NIT Nagaland, where he worked on polymer composite materials for dye degradation and optoelectronic applications. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he served as a Research Fellow in the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering at IIT Delhi. In January 2026, he joined the NEMO Laboratory, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), IIT Bombay, as a Senior Research Fellow and is currently pursuing postdoctoral research focused on next-generation energy storage and conversion systems.
Email: ssudhirkumar.sk@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Bhanu Prakash Bisht
Bhanu Prakash Bisht is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) in the NEMo Lab at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on additive manufacturing, functional materials, and advanced device fabrication for optoelectronic applications and energy storage. His work integrates 3D printing, nanomaterials, and surface engineering to develop architected materials with enhanced performance. His current research interests include MXene-based functional devices, topology-engineered electrodes for next-generation supercapacitors and multifunctional lattice structures for sensor applications.
Email: 20004587@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Mitva Choudhary
Dr. Mitva Choudhary is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UPES Dehradun, specializing in the synthesis, functionalization, and advanced characterization of nanomaterials and functional composite architectures. His research expertise spans the design and optimization of novel 2D materials including MXenes, MoS2, and elemental 2D allotropes for high-sensitivity sensing platforms. Dr. Choudhary has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in high-impact international journals & 4 patents for novel nanomaterial formulations and sensor technologies. His current work focuses on integrating structured nanohybrids into water, environment and chemiresistive sensors related applications.
Email: 20004768@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Dr. Shubham Raj
Dr. Shubham Raj is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Bombay, India. Dr. Raj holds a Ph.D. (May, 2025) in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, where he was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). His research focuses on the design of advanced semiconductor and MOF-based functional materials for photocatalysis, electrochemical advanced oxidation processes, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), and membrane technologies. His work integrates materials synthesis, advanced characterization, reactor engineering, and process optimization to develop scalable solutions for emerging pollutants-based wastewater treatment, and environmental remediation. He did his M. Tech (2019) in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur where he was involved adsorption-based water treatment for heavy metals. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he served as a Project Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur.
Email: 20004952@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Graduate Students
Aarjith Damian Davis
Aarjith is a DBT-Junior Research Fellow (DBT-JRF) pursuing his Ph.D. at the Centre for Sophisticated Instruments and Facilities (CSIF), IIT Bombay. His academic journey spans Zoology, Biotechnology, and Materials Science, bringing together expertise from the life sciences and engineering. He holds an M.Sc. in Zoology from St. Thomas College (Autonomous) and an M.Tech. in Biotechnology from IIT Guwahati and has qualified GATE. His research focuses on femtosecond laser-assisted two-photon lithography for fabricating biomimetic 2D/3D micro- and nanostructured scaffolds to investigate cell alignment, cell–material interactions, and advanced 2D/3D cell culture platforms.
Email: 25d1603@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Akanksha Sharma
Akanksha is presently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science at IIT Bombay. She earned her M.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Indore and her B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Vikram University. Her current research focuses on fabricating micro/nanostructures using two-photon lithography for applications in sensing and drug delivery.
Email: akanksha_sharma@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Aman Singhal
Aman obtained his M.Tech in Materials Science & Technology from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra in 2020 and B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from University of Petroleum & Energy Studies in 2017. He worked on graphene based microwave absorbing materials in CSIR - Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO). Aman Singhal is pursuing his PhD at Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, IIT Bombay. His research interests include computation and experimental work on metamaterials, photonics, two-photon lithography and optoelectronics.
Email: 204110007@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Ariya K. Vijyan
Ariya K. Vijayan is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science at IIT Bombay. Her research focuses on electrochemical energy storage, nanostructured materials, and the integration of computational and experimental approaches for advanced materials design. She obtained her M.Sc. in Physics from the Central University of Punjab in 2023 and her B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Calicut in 2021. During her master's studies, she worked on the computational investigation of energy storage materials using density functional theory (DFT).
Email: 24d0964@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Ashok Kumar Sharma
Ashok obtained his bachelors degree in Production Engineering & Management from NIT Jamshedpur in 2007. Since then he has been working in Product & Technology Development Centre at L&T Defence. He is pursuing her PhD (external) at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay. His research areas include photonics and optoelectronics.
Email: 214114002@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Harsh Rohit
Harsh Rohit is a PhD student at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay. He received his Bachelors degree in Naval Architecture and Ship Building from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He also received his PGDIIT from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in Applied Mechanics. His current research interests include Graphene based materials for sustainability, and environmental and marine applications.
Email: harshrohit.iitb@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Himanshu Soni
Presently under the guidance of Prof. Shobha Shukla and Prof. Sumit Saxena at the NEMO lab, MEMS. Completed Master's in Materials Science and Technology from IIT(BHU), Varanasi during 2019-2021. Completed Bachelor's in Nanotechnology from Centre for Converging Technologies, Univ. of Rajasthan during 2015-2019. Research Interests in studying the properties of materials from the first-principle study (Density Functional Theory)
Email: 214110011@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Jyotiraman De
Jyotiraman received his M.Tech in CAD-CAM from RTM Nagpur University in 2016 and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune in 2012. He worked as Technology and Intellectual Property Division Head at Kalyani Studio (Kalyani group product development start-up) for 3.5 years and prior to that as an Engineer at Mahindra and Mahindra Limited for 1 year. He is also a licensed Patent Agent registeredwith the Indian Patent Office, Government of India. He is presently working as PhD student at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on development of graphene based filters, sensors and devices for water filtration and sensing purpose.
Email: jyotiraman.de@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Jyotsna Mishra
Jyotsna obtained her master's (M.Sc.) in bioinformatics from Banaras Hindu University in 2021. She obtained her bachelor's (B.Sc.) in Life Sciences from Delhi University in 2019. She is pursuing her P.hD. at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science (CRNTS) under the guidance of Prof. Shobha Shukla at IIT Bombay. Her research mainly focuses on ecotoxicity studies of nanomaterials.
Email: 214363003@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Rohan Mondal
Rohan is currently pursuing his Doctoral thesis at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science (CRNTS), IIT Bombay. He obtained Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Calcutta University and Masters in Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University (BHU). His research interests include Polymeric composite membranes for oil-water separation.
Email: rohanmondal052@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Saleem Ibne Hussain
Saleem received his bachelor's and master's integrated dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from IISER, Bhopal. He is a PhD student at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on the fabrication of micro/nanostructures using two-photon lithography with applications in heavy metal ion sensing.
Email: 23d0979@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Saumya Kriti
Saumya is currently enrolled as PhD Student at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science (CRNTS) at IIT Bombay. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, she worked as a Junior Research Fellow in Nanocrystalline Group at the Centre For Materials For Electronics Technology, Pune and as a project fellow in the Chemical Engineering Department at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune. She received her M.Tech in Nanotechnology from Central University Of Jharkhand in 2017. Her research focuses on the development of nanostructures and their functionalization for application in Energy Storage and Waste Water Treatment..
Email: saumyakriti@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Sonali Baviskar
Sonali obtained her masters and bachelors degree in Civil Environmental Engineering from North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. She is currently working as faculty member at the Civil Engineering Department, Pillai Hoc College of Engineering and Technology. She is pursuing her PhD (external) at the Center for Research in Nanotechnology and Science at IIT Bombay. Her research areas include water purification and treatment techniques.
Email: sonalivikrant@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Sonu Kumar Singh
Sonu Kumar Singh received his M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University (Pt. R.S.U.), Raipur, in 2021. He was awarded the University Gold Medal for securing the highest rank in his M.Sc. batch and the Department Gold Medal for outstanding academic excellence. Following his master's degree, he served as a Guest Assistant Professor at Pt. R.S.U. Raipur. Prior to this, he worked as an Ad Hoc Lecturer in the Department of Physics at St. Thomas College, Bhilai. He is currently a DST INSPIRE Senior Research Fellow and a Ph.D. research scholar in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. His research focuses on the design and fabrication of three-dimensional micro- and nanostructures using two-photon lithography for integrated photonics, with an emphasis on advanced micro/nanofabrication, functional materials, and integrated photonic devices.
Email: 22d0992@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Soumi Mukherjee
Soumi is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay. She holds a B.Sc. in Physics from Calcutta University and an M.Sc. in Physics from Techno India University. Her current research focuses on developing advanced optical sensors for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), heavy metals, and bacteria using two-photon lithography.
Email: soumimukherjee.iitb@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
T. Archana
T Archana is currently a Ph.D student at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering with specialization in design and manufacturing from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM Kancheepuram) in 2019. Her Master's degree was specialized in Solid State Technology from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, in 2021. Her research focuses on the fabrication and development of functionalized nanomaterials for sensors and drug delivery applications.
Email: 214110007@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Tejaswi Challa
Tejaswi is an PhD scholar (external) at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, IITB. He completed his M.Tech in Laser Technology & Opto-electronics and B.E in Electronics & Communications Engineering. He is working as Lead Optics Designer for Tier-1 Automotive Lighting Company in Pune. His research interests include Nanophotonic devices for Lighting applications.
Email: tejaswi.challa@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Vipin Kumar
Vipin is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in Chemistry, Public Policy, and advanced energy-storage technologies. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Center for Sophisticated Instruments and Facilities (CSIF)(CRNTS), focused on supercapacitors and advanced materials for sustainable energy storage. He holds a Master's degree in Chemistry and in Public Policy from IIT Bombay. Beyond scientific research, he is deeply interested in public policy, its influence on decision-making, the circular economy, and eco-entrepreneurship.
Email: 25d1602@gmail.com
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Yaswanth Rage
Yaswanth is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). He earned his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur, in 2020, followed by a Master's degree in Nanoscience and Technology from the University of Hyderabad in 2023. His current research focuses on the development of sensing platforms for the detection of heavy metal ions using functional nanomaterials.
Email: 23d0969@iitb.ac.in
Address: NEMO Lab, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Project Staff
Shankar Kannoujiya
Shankar Kannoujiya is currently affiliated as Project Technical Assistant at the Water Innovation Center:Technology Research & Education (WICTRE), IIT Bombay. He has completed a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Chemistry and is currently pursuing a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Chemistry. He provides support to research projects, laboratory operations, procurement, and administrative activities. He has experience in purchase and inventory management, documentation, and coordination with vendors and project teams.
Email: 30006113@iitb.ac.in
Address: WICTRE, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Guest Professors
Prof. Asis K. Adak
Adjunct Professor, IIT Bombay
Prof. A. K. Adak is presently an Adjunct Faculty at IIT Bombay, where he teaches and mentors students, doctoral scholars, and post-doctoral researchers. He is a distinguished R&D leader with over 34 years of expertise in advanced water treatment, nuclear desalination, and clean energy technologies. Prior to joining IIT Bombay, Prof. Adak served as a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), where he headed the Desalination & Membrane Technology Division, under department of Atomic Energy. Prof. Adak also made significant contributions to the development of nuclear desalination technologies under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Email: asisadakdd@gmail.com
Address: Visiting faculty office, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Prof. Donald McNaughton, PhD
Monash University
Prof. McNaughton is an emeritus professor of molecular sciences in the school of chemistry and a member of the centre for biospectroscopy. His main interests are : Infrared and Raman spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging directed to understanding the molecular basis of biological systems; microwave and high resolution infrared spectroscopy directed at characterizing transient species, atmospheric species and interstellar molecules; synchrotron infrared spectroscopy
Email: Donald.McNaughton[at]monash.edu
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076
Prof. Kishore Paknikar, PhD, FNAAS, FAMI, FBRS, FMAS
Professor Agharkar Chair, Agharkar Research Institute
Visiting Faculty, IIT Bombay
Prof. Paknikar is the Agharkar Chair Professor and Ex-Director at the Agharkar Research Institute. His work in the field of delivery systems focuses on the delivery of drugs, proteins, peptides, siRNA and nutrients. Various delivery system e.g. polymeric nanoparticles and dendrimers are being explored for delivery of bioactive molecules in the treatment of cancers, Alzheimer's disease, candidiasis etc.
Email: kpaknikar[at]iitb.ac.in
Address: 327, MEMS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, MH India 400076