Dr. Kailash Chandra Jena

Biography

Dr. Jena joined Department of Physics as an Assistant Professor on 31st of December, 2013. His research expertise is in the field of nonlinear sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy and its application to probe solid/water interfaces and nanoscopic oil droplet surfaces in oil-in-water emulsions. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, under the mentorship of Prof. Prem B. Bisht and Prof. S. Kasiviswanathan. During his Ph.D. program, he studied the nonlinear optical properties and relaxation processes of organic molecules by using the laser induced transient grating technique. He then joined Prof. Dennis Hore's group as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Victoria, Canada studied interfacial water structure at solid / water interfaces using SFG vibrational spectroscopy. In 2011, he joined Prof. Sylvie Roke's group at Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent System, Germany and subsequently moved to EPFL, Switzerland worked on SFG scattering spectroscopy to probe formation and characterization of model membrane systems at water / nanoscopic oildroplet interfaces and behavior of ionic surfactants on water structure at hydrophobic/water interfaces.

Research Interest

1) Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy 2) Interfacial Water Structure (Air/Aqueous and Solid/Polymer/Aqueous Interfaces) 3) Binding of Ions to Amino acids, Lipids and Proteins 4) Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Bio/Chemo Sensing 5) Anti-Biofouling Material for Marine Use 6) Cause of Cancer Disease and its Early Detection 7) Radiation Induced Effects on Light Matter Interaction