Dr. PRATIK KUMAR DAS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Full-Time Faculty
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Full-Time Faculty
pratikdas.ju@gmail.com
+91 9433755682
+91 9433755682
CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION
- Entrepreneurship & Placement Officer (EPO)
RESEARCH INTEREST
My research primarily involves focussed theoretical investigation of specific atomic scale phenomenon on the domain of mineral physics, such as cation ordering, crystal defects and their effects on mechanical and electronic behaviour of materials. Using first principles Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Molecular Dynamics (MD), I explore phase diagrams and high pressure–temperature behaviour of minerals, which are of both basic and industrial interests. Thrust Areas: 1. New Materials Discovery 2. Theoretical investigations of Phase Diagram 3. Computational Mineral Physics 4. Deep EARTH Volatiles
RECENT PUBLICATION
- 1. Superconductivity in CH4 and BH4− containing compounds derived from the high-pressure superhydrides, N Geng, KP Hilleke, F Belli, PK Das, E Zurek, Materials Today Physics 44, 101443, I.F 10.39. 2. pT-dependent structural transformations of Zn-monochalcogenides to switch their semiconductor–metal transition: a DFT study, PK Das, SK Mondal, N Mandal, A Arya, Applied Physics A 129 (7), 497, I.F. 2.50. 3. First principles prediction of exceptional mechanical and electronic behaviour of Titanite (CaTiSiO5), PK Das, SK Mondal, N Mandal, Materialia 15, 100964, I.F. 3.26. 4. High-pressure silica phase transitions: Implications for deep mantle dynamics and silica crystallization in the protocore, PK Das, CE Mohn, JP Brodholt, RG Trønnes, American Mineralogist 105 (7), 1014-1020, I.F. 3.00. 5. A novel approach to the structural distortions of U/Th snub-disphenoids and their control on zircon→ reidite type phase transitions of U1− xThxSiO4, SK Mondal, PK Das, N Mandal, A Arya, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32 (14), 145401, I.F. 2.30.
AWARDS & HONOURS
1. INSPIRE SHE by DST, Govt. of India. 2. INSPIRE AORC, by DST, Govt. of India. 3. Newton - Bhabha Fellow by British Council, UK. 4. DST INSPIRE FACULTY by INSA, Govt. of India.