Dr. Shahab Ahmad is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, IIT Jodhpur. He has joined IIT Jodhpur as an Assistant Professor in 2019. He has received PhD in Physics from IIT Delhi in 2014 and won the Distinction in Doctoral Research Award. During PhD he has also worked as a visiting researcher at the NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK (2011 and 2014). Subsequently he has gained post-doctoral research experience of 3 years (2014-2017) at the NanoManufacturing Centre, University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to joining IIT Jodhpur, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi for 2 years (2017-2019). So far he has authored more than 55 research articles in internationally reputed journals including Nature, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, JACS, Small etc. He is recipient of several awards and fellowships, and known in the scientific community for the development of first single active material based Photo-rechargeable Li-Ion battery in a two-electrode configuration.

Dr. Shahab Ahmad has formed and leading the ‘Advanced Energy Materials Group’ at the Department of Physics, IIT Jodhpur. His research group is focused on experimental investigations of the fundamental properties of low-dimensional materials by using various types of Optical, Electronic and Electrochemical probes to explore and demonstrate the potential of these materials for Energy Applications ranging from Energy Storage to Optoelectronic and Photonic devices. In view of interdisciplinary nature of his research work, the ‘Advanced Energy Materials Group’ extensively work in the research domains of ‘Experimental Condensed Matter Physics’ and ‘Optics & Photonics’. The current research interest of the group includes:

1. Photo-rechargeable and Photo-enhanced Energy Storage Devices
2. Lithium-Ion, Lithium-Sulphur and Emerging Metal-Ion Batteries
3. Nanostructured and Hierarchically Engineered Battery Electrodes
4. Scalable and cost-effective Production of Batteries
5. Optoelectronic Investigations of 2D and Quasi-2D Metal Halide Perovskites
6. Band-gap Engineering and Photonic studies of Metal Halide Perovskites
7. Solar Assisted Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production