Curriculum vitae

Experience

1. 2022 – present

   Research Scientist

   Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Kjeller, Norway
   Computational Materials Processing (MatPro)

   • Internal project leader for SUCCEED, an IPN project building a real-time digital twin of a high-performance polymer extrusion line for solar collectors (Inaventa Solar, Omipa, Solvay, Fraunhofer ISE).
   • Digital twin work for the Inaventa Solar use case in the Horizon Europe project FLEX4FACT.
   • R&D work in SAGA, Smart Aluminium for Grid and Energy Applications, an IPN project led by Hydro Aluminium (2026 to 2030).
   • Develops finite element modelling suites for large industrial projects in aluminium casting and material processing.
   • Builds digital twin frameworks and AI tools for industrial processes in the aluminium, battery and solar sectors, including physics-informed neural network surrogates for casting.
   • Created PDE-Agents, an agentic framework that sets up, runs and analyses FEM and CFD simulations on local open models.
   • Writes and coordinates proposals for the Research Council of Norway (IPN, KSP) and Horizon Europe.

2. 2022

   Researcher

   University of Oslo, Norway
   Department of Physics, Section for Plasma and Space Physics

   • Lead computational physicist for environmental studies of space instruments in the Emirates Lunar Mission, NanoMagSat and Daedalus (4DSpace strategic research initiative).
   • Course instructor for FYS4620/9620, An Introduction to Plasma Physics.
   • Co-supervised a Master's thesis on complex plasma physics.

3. 2020 – 2022

   Postdoctoral Fellow

   University of Oslo, Norway
   Department of Physics, Section for Plasma and Space Physics

   • Simulated Langmuir probe behaviour in space plasma, including the probe on the Rashid rover of the Emirates Lunar Mission.
   • Studied spacecraft charging in the ionosphere and analysed probe I-V characteristics (NanoMagSat, Daedalus).
   • Modelled the lunar photoelectron sheath.
   • Organised the workshop on the finite element PIC code PTetra (2022).

4. 2017 – 2022

   Co-founder, CTO and Creative Director

   Good Morning Science, India
   Science communication platform, alongside research

   • Built and ran the web platform and app, and led digital content creation and distribution.
   • Edited and reviewed popular science articles.

5. 2018 – 2020

   Postdoctoral Fellow

   Centre of Plasma Physics, Institute for Plasma Research, Assam, India
   Theory and Simulation Laboratory

   • Led a project on the role of the plasma sheath in communication blackout during space vehicle re-entry.
   • Taught computational physics to doctoral students in the pre-PhD programme.
   • Collaborated with the Dusty Plasma and Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion laboratories.

6. 2012 – 2017

   Junior and Senior Research Fellow

   Centre of Plasma Physics, Institute for Plasma Research, Assam, India
   Theory and Simulation Laboratory

   • Developed a particle-in-cell model of a magnetised plasma to study plasma surface interaction.
   • Numerical simulation of plasma phenomena in the sheath region.

Education

1. 2012 – 2019

   Ph.D. in Plasma Physics

   Gauhati University, India

   Carried out at the Centre of Plasma Physics, Institute for Plasma Research. Thesis: Study of edge physics in magnetised plasma. Advisor: Prof. K. S. Goswami.

2. 2010 – 2012

   M.Sc. in Physical Science

   Tezpur University, India

   Major in high energy physics.

3. 2007 – 2010

   B.Sc. in Physical Science

   University of Calcutta, India

   Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur.

Certifications

• 2024 OpenFOAM Foundation Course, OpenCFD Limited
• 2018 The Finite Element Method for Problems in Physics, University of Michigan
• 2016 Distributed Computing for Plasma Simulations, Particle In Cell Consulting
• 2015 Advanced PIC Techniques; Fundamentals of the Particle In Cell Method, Particle In Cell Consulting

Skills

Codes developed

• PDE-AgentsMulti-agent LLM framework for automated finite element simulations
• PPDynPlasma particle dynamics, a molecular dynamics code for complex plasma
• PICSPParticle-in-cell simulation of plasma
• IDFMIon dynamics in magnetised sheaths using fluid modelling
• deepRadiationNeural network models for plasma radiation
• DSMCPy, deepDiffusionDirect simulation Monte Carlo and neural diffusion solvers
• Project RaspberryRaspberry Pi projects for science outreach

Also used: PTetra, PUNC++, PINC, XOOPIC, Gkeyll, OpenFOAM. Languages spoken: English, Bengali, Hindi, Assamese.

Talks

• Aug 2026 LLM agents meet the finite element method
  Webinar, DigiPro Centre, Online
• Nov 2022 A ride to the Moon
  Invited talk, Department of Physics, Sikkim University, Gangtok, India
• Aug 2021 Understanding photoelectron sheath in light of Langmuir probe data
  Talk, Lunar Surface Science Workshop, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, USA (virtual)
• Jul 2020 An insider's look at space missions
  Invited webinar, National webinar, Department of Physics, B. N. College, Dhubri, India
• Oct 2018 Ion dynamics in a magnetized source-collector sheath
  Contributed talk, Joint ICTP-IAEA College on Plasma Physics, Trieste, Italy
• Mar 2018 Kinetic effects in magnetized plasma sheaths
  Talk, 6th PSSI Plasma Scholars Colloquium, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, India

Service and outreach

Peer review

Referee for journals in plasma physics, applied physics and power engineering. Physics of Plasmas, Physica Scripta, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.

Events organised

• 2022 Workshop on the finite element PIC code PTetra, University of Oslo (virtual)
• 2019 Symposium on Recent Trends in Basic Plasma Research, CPP-IPR, Assam
• 2019 National Science Day celebration, CPP-IPR, Assam
• 2014 Workshop on Linear Tokamak Divertor Simulators for PSI Studies, CPP-IPR, Assam

Teaching and supervision

Course instructor for FYS4620/9620, An Introduction to Plasma Physics at the University of Oslo (2022). Taught computational physics in the pre-PhD programme at CPP-IPR (2018 to 2020). Co-supervised a Master's thesis on complex plasma.

Outreach

Co-founded the GMS Foundation, which brings science to underprivileged students in rural India, and writes popular science articles for its Good Morning Science platform.

Publications

46 items, listed with search and topic filters on the publications page.