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Prof. Suryoday Prodhan

Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry

Computational Material Science, Model and Algorithm Development, Transport in Organic Semiconductors
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

I am a theoretical/computational chemist, and my research portfolio primarily fits within the remit of computational modeling of organic semiconducting materials that are suitable alternatives to conventional silicon-based technology. These low band-gap, semi-crystalline materials are unique due to structural and energetic inhomogeneities and strong electronic correlation. Subsequently, it is challenging to model their optoelectronic characteristics within traditional computational protocols. In this endeavor, my overarching goal is to develop and implement novel computational methodologies for the in-silico design of high-performance materials.

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Research interests

  • Charge and Energy Transport in Disordered Organic Semiconductors
  • High-Throughput Screening of Efficient Semiconducting Polymers
  • Role of Non-Adiabatic Couplings in Transport Models
  • Development of Effective Physical Models
  • Computational Workflow for Scaled-up Materials Simulations
  • Semiconducting Polymer Informatics
  • Electronic Structure of Organic Systems at Strong Electron Correlation Limit

Selected key publications

  • S. Prodhan et al., Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2303234.
  • S. Prodhan et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 8188-8193.
  • A. J. Sneyd et al., Sci. Adv. 2021, 7, eabh4232.
  • S. Prodhan et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 6519-6525.
  • S. Prodhan et al., Phys. Rev. B 2018, 97, 195125.

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad campus (June 2024 - till date)
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool (February 2022 - May 2024)
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Mons (April 2018 - March 2021)

Education

  • PhD, Indian Institute of Science (2017)
  • MSc, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (2011)
  • BSc, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), affiliated to University of Calcutta (2009)