Post Doctoral Fellow
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University
United States of America
Himanshu Chakraborty received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India in 2015. She then held a research assistant (provisional) position in Theoretical Sciences Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. Himanshu joined Professor Klein’s research group as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016. She is associated with Center for the Computational Design of Functional Layered Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center.
Her Research Interests include: 1.Theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, surfaces and solids 2.First-principles calculations to determine electrical and chemical properties of nano-scale materials 3.Optical properties of conjugated polymers, graphene and other related 2D materials