Who We Are?
We are the Spectroscopy and Surface Chemical Dynamics Group, committed to researching a sustainable energy future. Our team specializes in characterizing critical surface and interfacial processes both in situ and operando, utilizing advanced spectroscopic techniques, including time-resolved photoluminescence, transient absorption, and vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy.
Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
About PI
Anupam Bera
Assistant Professor, since June 2024
School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad,
Phone: +91-40-2313-4839
Room No: S005
Email: anupambera@uohyd.ac.in
BSc: Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University (JU), 2008-2011
MSc: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur, 2011-2013, with Prof. A.K. Patra
PhD: Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemsitry, IISc Bangalore, India (With Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya), 2013-2019
Postdoc: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 2019-2022, with Prof. Eckart Hasselbrink
Senior Postdoc & Habilitation: Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany and guest scientist at Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT), Jena, Germany, 2022-2024, with Prof. Benjamin Dietzek‐Ivanšić
Awards: (1) Raman-Charpak Fellow, 2015, collaborative work at
University of Lyon, France.
(2) Young Associate Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru, 2026
(3) Member of German Physical society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) DPG, 2019-2022
(4) CSIR JRF and SRF (2013, 2015) CSIR India
(5) Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Scholarship, DST, India, 2008
(6) Gate Fellowship Award, Indian Institute of Technology, 2013
(7) Offered the Habilitation at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany 2022- 2024
Current Members
Saranya Bolem
PhD Scholar, UoH
MSc: Osmania University (2024)
Awards: Gold medal in physical chemistry, Osmania University
Research Areas: Spectroscopic characterization of photoanode interface
Ananth Vajhula
Project MSc, UoH
Research Area: Spectroscopic characterization of Phtoanodes interafce
Prankishor Ghosh
Reserach Assistant, UoH
Research Areas: Spectroscopic characterizations of Sn based provskite materials at interafce
VASAMSETTI GAYATHRI, IMSC UoH
Project MSc Thesis, UoH
Research Area: Spectroscopic characterization and electronic structure calculation of Organic Delayed Fluorescence Compounds
Bhashkar Pal
Research Associate, UoH
MSc: Visva Bharati University, West Bengal.
Research Areas: Spectroscopic characterizations of Charge transfer at Prussian blue analog interface
Prachi Das, MSC UoH
BSc: Fakir Mohan Autonomous College, Odisha
Project MSc Thesis, UoH
Research Area: Spectroscopic characterization of optical biosensors
Past members
Sneha Sajeev
MSc Project Assistant
University of Calicut
Pratikhsha Hajari
ANRF-Junior Research Fellow, UoH
Research Areas: Vibrational sum frequency Spectroscopy
Nihira Hazarika
Project IMSc, UoH
Research Area: Sn Based perovskite Solar cell, electronic structure, Spectroscopic characterization
Areguda Nandini
M.Sc. Chemistry, Summer Intern 2026
VIT Vellore
Shivani Kumari
Project MSc, UoH
Research Area: Spectroscopic characterization of Sn based perovskite interafce
