Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

• Post-doctoral fellow, Theory Group, Joint Research Centre for Atom Technology, Tsukuba, Japan (1998-2000).
• Research Associate, Prof. D.D. Sarma’s Group, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (April 2000-Oct 2000).
• Post-doctoral fellow, Solid State Theory Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, USA (Oct 2000-Sept. 2003).
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India (Sept. 2003-June 2005).
• Reader, Department of Material Science, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (July 2005-February 2009).
• Associate Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (February 2009-December 2012).
• Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (January 2013 - 2016).
• Senior Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (January 2017 - present).

• JC Bose Fellow, (2025-2030).
• Elected Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2026).
• SERB Power Fellow, (2021-2024).
• Editorial Advisory Board member, J. Solid State Chem. (2025-current).
• Editorial Advisory Board member, ACS Energy Letters (2021-2023).
• Editorial Advisory Board member, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2021-2025).
• Elected Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (2022).
• Member, IUPAP Commission on Computational Physics (C-20) (2015-2021).
• 2nd Lakshmi Raman memorial lecture at IIT Madras, Chennai (2016).
• MRSI Medal (2015).
• Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2014).
• DAE Raja Ramanna Prize Lecture in Physics (2013).
• TWOWS Prize for young woman scientist in Physics/Mathematics in Asia region for 2010.
• NASI-SCOPUS young scientist award in Physics for 2010.
• Junior Associate, ICTP Trieste, Italy (2005-2010).
• Martin Foster Medal for best PhD in Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2000).
• L.A. Meera prize for best PhD, in Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2000).
• Fifth rank in Bachelor of Science, Bangalore University (1991).

• Master of Science: Dept. of Physics, IISc, Bangalore(1993).
• PhD: Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore (1998).

• Electronic, magnetic, structural, optical and mechanical properties of systems at the nanoscale
• Charge, orbital and magnetic ordering in p and d band systems
• Models for magnetism in transition metal compounds, dilute magnetic semiconductors
• Calculation of various spectral functions

1.The anomalous electronic structure of ReS2 , J. Chatterjee, P. Boyal and Priya Mahadevan, J. Mat. Chem C. (in press).

2. Why do we have dual emission in two-dimensional hybrid perovskites?, Debayan Mondal and Priya Mahadevan, J. Phys. Chem. C 130, 4999 (2026).

3. Direction-dependent conduction polarity in altermagnetic CrSb, B.Rai, K. Patra, S. Bera, S. Kalimuddin, K. Deb, M. Mondal, Priya Mahadevan, and Nitesh Kumar, Adv. Sci. 2502226 (2025).

4. Persistence of antiferromagntic ordering after pressure-induced gap closure in the Slater insulator NaOsO3 , Prasun Boyal and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B 111, L020403 (2025).

5. Optical intensity driven mid-gap transitions in few-layer MoS2 , T.S. Bhattacharya, S. Patra, S.S. Singha, S. Mitra, P. Mahadevan and A. Singha, Phys. Rev. B 111, 115412 (2025).

6. Structural Distortions in Hybrid Perovskites, D. Mondal and Priya Mahadevan, Chem. Mater. 36 4254 (2024).

7. The role of stacking on the electronic structure of MoSe2 at small twist angles, S. Patra, M. Das and Priya Mahadevan, J. Phys. Mater. 7, 014001 (2023).

8. Spin Texture Sensitive Photodetection by Dion–Jacobson Tin Halide Perovskites, Arnab Mandal, Sanuja Kumar Khuntia, Debayan Mondal, Priya Mahadevan and Sayan Bhattacharyya, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 24990 (2023).

9. Detection of Nontrivial Topology Driven by Charge Density Wave in a Semi-Dirac Metal, Rafiqul Alam, Prasun Boyal, Shubhankar Roy, Ratnadwip Singha, Buddhadeb Pal, Riju Pal, Prabhat Mandal, Priya Mahadevan and Atindra Nath Pal, Adv. Func. Mat. 33, 2306751 (2023).

10. Electric-field induced metal-semiconductor transitions in twisted bilayers of WSe2 , Sumanti Patra, Prasun Boyal and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B (Lett) 107, L041104 (2023).

11. Probing metal-molecule contact at the atomic scale via conductance jumps, B Pabi, D Mondal, Priya Mahadevan and AN Pal, Phys. Rev. B 104, L121407 (2021).

12. Evolution of the electronic structure of twisted bilayer MoSe2 , Sumanti Patra, Poonam Kumari and P. Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B 102, 205415 (2020).

• Krishnendu Patra defends his thesis (March 2026).

• Shinjini Paul submits her thesis (July 2026).

• Prasun and Joydeep's paper in understanding the origin of the insulating state in ReS2 is accepted in J. Materials Chemistry C (August 2026).

• Our joint Indo-Taiwan project entitled 'Relating the Electrochemical Properties and Atomic/Electronic Structures of Cationic and Anionic Redox Cathodes for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries' with Urmimala Maitra (IACS), Ashish Chainani (NSRRC, Taiwan), Chi Liang Chen (NSRRC, Taiwan) and Chung Li Dong (TKU) has been approved for funding (September 2026). Looking forward to an exciting collaboration (September 2026).

• Priya gets elected to NASI (September 2026).