Group Leader

Dr. Taraknath Mandal

Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
IIT Kanpur

Email : taraknath@iitk.ac.in

Phone (Office) : 0512-259-2235

Academic Profile
Associate Professor, IITK (since July, 2025)
Assistant Professor, IITK (March, 2021 - June, 2025)
Postdoc, University of Fribourg (2020-2021)
Postdoc, Boston University (2018-2020)
Postdoc, University of Michigan (2015-2018)
PhD, IISc Bangalore (2009-2015)



PhD Students

Jatin Soni (Nov, 2021 - )

Jatin Soni is a 4th year Ph.D. student. He joined as Ph.D. student in Physics Department of IIT Kanpur in 2019. His research interests include protein membrane interactions.

Email : jsoni@iitk.ac.in


Shivam Gupta (Joined Aug, 2022)

Shivam is a fourth year PhD student. He is working on membrane domain formation.

Email : shivamg20@iitk.ac.in

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Rupam Dey (Joined Aug, 2024)

Rupam is a second year PhD student.

Email : rupamd24@iitk.ac.in


Aditya Shukla (Joined Aug, 2025)

Aditya is a second year PhD student.

Email : adityas22@iitk.ac.in


Indranil Das (Joined Jan, 2026)

Indranil is a first year PhD student.

Email : indranild25@iitk.ac.in




Past Students

  • Rupam Dey : Summer project student (2023)
  • Rajat Julaha : M.Sc. project student (2022-2023)
  • Keerthana : BS project student (2021-2022)
  • Swarnendu Mondal : M.Sc. project student (Jan.-May,2022)
  • Shivam Gupta : M.Sc. project student (2021-2022)
  • Awneesh Kumar : M.Sc. project student (2021-2022)