Soham Raychowdhury
Integrated PhD student · since 2020
Ionic transport in solid oxide electrolytes
Uses experiments and theory to understand ion transport in metal oxide electrolytes and electrodes at 500–800 °C.
People
People
8 researchers in the lab now, and 9 alumni.
Principal investigator
Chinmoy Ranjan
Assistant Professor, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc
Electrocatalysis · SOEC/SOFC · Multimodal operando spectroscopy · Theoretical chemistry
Chinmoy Ranjan leads the Laboratory for Electrochemistry and In situ Spectroscopy at IISc, which develops multimodal operando methods to study electrochemical reactions in solid oxide and aqueous electrolysers and fuel cells. Before joining IISc in 2017 he led electrochemistry groups at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion and the Fritz Haber Institute, working on water electrolysis, and was a process engineer at Intel.
Career
- 2017–presentAssistant Professor
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru - 2012–2017Group Leader, Electrochemistry
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany - 2010–2012Project Leader, Electrochemistry
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin - 2007–2010Senior Process Technology Engineer
Intel Corporation, USA
Education
- 2007PhD, Chemistry
Cornell University, USA - 2002Integrated MSc, Chemistry
IIT Kanpur
Courses taught
- Topics in Basic and Applied Electrochemistry (PhD course)
- Thermodynamics and Electrochemistry (undergraduate course)
- Physical and Analytical Chemistry Lab (undergraduate)
- Introductory Chemistry Lab (undergraduate)
Current members
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Shivam
PhD student · since 2019
OER, ORR and CO2 reduction on solid oxide electrodes
Studies proton- and oxide-conducting solid oxide electrodes with operando Raman and mass spectrometry.
Amita Pandey
PhD student · since 2021
Ion transport in polymeric membranes
Measures in situ ion transport in polymer electrolytes such as Nafion with two- and four-electrode methods and vibrational spectroscopy.
Gaurav Kumar
Integrated PhD student · since 2022
New electrolytes for solid oxide cells
Develops solid electrolytes that conduct oxygen ions and protons.
Poonam
PhD student · since 2024
OER and CO2 electrolysis oxide catalysts
Studies oxygen evolution and CO2 electrolysis on membrane electrode assemblies.
Ankita Kapoor
PhD student · since 2024
CO2 electrolysis in aqueous electrolytes
Studies CO2 electrolysis at aqueous electrodes.
Muhammad Rashik V. P.
PhD student · since 2026
High-temperature CO2 electrolysis
Studies high-temperature CO2 electrolysis on membrane electrode assemblies.
Vikas Nain
PhD student · since 2026
Joined the lab in August 2026.
Alumni
Dr. Veenu
PhD, 2026
Assistant Professor, MVJ College of Engineering, Bengaluru
Dr. Bapuji Mohapatra
PhD, 2025
Thermax Ltd., Pune
Dr. Sekhar Kumar Biswal
PhD, 2025
Postdoctoral fellow, IPCMS, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, France
Dr. Vipin Kamboj
PhD, 2024
Postdoctoral fellow, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
| Name | Programme | Graduated | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Veenu | PhD | 2026 | Assistant Professor, MVJ College of Engineering, Bengaluru |
| Srujan D | MSc | 2026 | — |
| Kalyani M. B. | MSc (external, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) | 2026 | — |
| Dr. Bapuji Mohapatra | PhD | 2025 | Thermax Ltd., Pune |
| Dr. Sekhar Kumar Biswal | PhD | 2025 | Postdoctoral fellow, IPCMS, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, France |
| Dr. Vipin Kamboj | PhD | 2024 | Postdoctoral fellow, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany |
| Antony James | MS | 2024 | PhD student, University of Munich, Germany |
| Dwaipayan Roychowdhury | Project assistant | 2022 | PhD student, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Abhinaba Das | BS-MS | 2020 | PhD student, Emory University, USA |
Summer research interns
- Deva Shri A., Pondicherry University
- Monika Khedar, S.S. Jain Subodh P.G. Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Jaipur (2024)
- Ananya Malali, Shiv Nadar University (2023)
- Kreetika Jha, IIT Kanpur (2019) · now PhD student, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Dheeraj Babu, NIT Trichy (2019) · now Engineer, Intel, USA
- Adarsh Koul, IISER Pune (2018) · now PhD student, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
- Soumyajeet Paul, NIT Sikkim (2018) · now Faculty, Pathfinder Institute