Teaching & Research Experiences:

    Doctoral research experience:

•  Ph.D., Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata ( Aug 2010- Jan 2016)

    Post-doctoral research experience:

• Post Doctoral Research Associate- I,  S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata- 700 106. (February 2016- January 2017)
  
• Research Associate, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,  Bangalore, India (January 2017- May 2017)
• National Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, W.B.-721302, India ( June 2017-July 2018)

     Teaching Experience:

•  Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, NIT Andhra Pradesh, (July 2018- till date)

Courses taught:

      UG Level

• PH101- Engineering Physics 
• PH102- Engineering  Physics Lab 
• Tutorial classes for B.Tech. 1^st year students in IIT Kharagpur (Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018 Semesters)
  

      PG Level

• 19PPH902- Nano-magnetism
• 19PPH903- Physics of Solid State Devices

Field of Research: 

   Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

•      Topological materials
•       Strongly correlated systems
•       Functional materials
•       Magnetocaloric effect and Magnetic refrigeration.
•       Magnetotransport properties
•       Magnetic glassy behavior
•       Dielectric and pyroelectric properties in oxides and selenides
  

Available facilities in the group : 

• Weighing Machine,
• Ultrasonicator,
• Centrifuge,
• Low-speed diamond-wheel cutter
• Optical Microscope
• Hydraulic press and Pelletizer,
• Vacuum Sealing Unit,
• Hot air oven,
  
• High Temperature Furnace,
• Temperature gradient furnace,
• Arc melting furnace
  

Ph.D. Supervision:

Ongoing/ Completed Research Projects:

        Ongoing

        1. Studies on the magnetic and electronic properties in ternary pnictides RTX₂ (R= Rare-earth, T= Transition metals, X= Pnictogen), SERB CRG, 3 Years (2023-2026), (32.45 Lakh)

        Completed:

        2. To Study Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Half-metallic Spintronics Materials: Fe-based Quaternary Heusler Alloys, UGC DAE CSR, 3 Years (2022-2025), (6.85  Lakhs)

        3. Preparation of Heusler Alloys for Magnetic Cooling, NIT AP, 2018-2020 (3 Lakhs)

        4. To Study Thermoelectric Properties of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and magnetocaloric effect in glassy intermetallic Compounds, SERB, 2017-18 (19.2 Lakhs)

 List of Publications:

1. Re-entrant cluster glass and anomalous transport behavior in disordered quaternary Heusler alloy FeRuMnSi, Manikantha Panda, Narayanan T, Shuvendu Ghosh, Rosni Roy, Akshata Magar, Alapan Bera, Santosh Behara, Soumik Mukhopadhyay, R. Nath, Rajib Mondal,  Tapas Paramanik, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1061 (2026) 187369

2. Photoluminescence properties of Sm³⁺-doped CaAl₄O₇-based phosphor-in-glass for high-power orange light applications, Mahesha Hegde,  Mitrabhanu Behera, Tapas Paramanik, Dominika Przybylska, Przemys?aw Wo?ny, Phani Kumar Mallisetty,  R Arun Kumar, Journal of Materials Science, 61, (2026) 6599–6612 

3.  Investigation of magnetic and magneto-transport properties in noncentrosymmetric antiferromagnetic semimetal GdGaSi, Manikantha Panda, Prabuddha Kant Mishra, Sonali S Pradhan, V. Kanchana,  Tapas Paramanik, Phys. Rev. Materials, 10, 014205 (2026)

4.  Stability of the collinear up-up-down-down magnetic ordering in Ca₃?CoMnO₆, Pratap Pal, Krishnendu Patra, Subhajit Nandy, Sudipta Mahana, Jayjit Kumar Dey, Souvik Chatterjee, CL Prajapat,  Tapas Paramanik, Dinesh Topwal, Amitabh Das, Priya Mahadevan, Debraj Choudhury, Phys. Rev. B 112, 214448 (2025)

5. Role of Fe-Mn interaction in developing cluster glass behaviour and Griffiths phase in ferrimagnetic Gd (Fe_{0. 75}Mn_{0. 25}) ₂Si₂, Shuvendu Ghosh, Suvayan Saha, Afsar Ahmed, Akshata Magar,  Manikantha Panda,  Rosni Roy, Rajib Mondal, R Nath, I Das,  Tapas Paramanik, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1039 (2025) 182719

6. Investigations of Eu3+ activated calcium dialuminate-based phosphor-in-glass as an inorganic color converter for solid-state lighting applications, Mahesha Hegde, Mitrabhanu Behera,  Tapas Paramanik, Dominika Przybylska, Przemys?aw Wo?ny, R Arun Kumar, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1037 (2025) 182373

7.  Evidence of Cluster Glass-Like Behavior in (Dy, Gd)₅Pd₂, Shuvendu Ghosh, Tapas Paramanik, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (2025) 38 :119

8. Role of Co/Mn Interaction in Developing Griffiths Phase with Reducing Particle Size in La₂CoMnO₆, Suvayan Saha, Sanjib Banik, Apurba Dutta, Tapas Paramanik, Santanu Pakhira, Suman Dey, Sudipta Bandyopadhyay, Chandan Mazumdar, I Das, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 20060−20074

9.  Magnetic and Electrical Transport Properties Investigation in (Dy_0.6Gd_0.4)₅Pd₂ Compound, Shuvendu Ghosh, Tapas Paramanik, I Das, Trans Indian Inst Met (2024) 77(7):1775–1777

10. Magnetic phase transitions in R₅Pd₂ (R= Ho, Dy, Dy_0.6Gd_0.4) compounds, S. Ghosh, Tapas Paramanik, I Das, J. Supercond. Nov. Magn., 1-5 (2023)

11. Magnetic and Electrical Transport Properties Investigation in (Dy_0.6Gd_0.4)₅Pd₂ Compound, S. Ghosh, Tapas Paramanik, I Das, Trans Indian Inst Met, 1-3 (2023)

12. Surface-phase superconductivity in a Mg-deficient V-doped MgTi2O4 spinel, A. Rahaman, T. Paramanik, B. Pal, R. Pal, P. Maji, K. Bera, S. Mallik, D. K. Goswami, A. N. Pal, and D. Choudhury, Phys. Rev. B, 107, 245124  (2023)

13. Observation of conventional and inverse magnetocaloric effects in (Dy_0.6 Gd_0.4 )₅ Pd₂, S. Ghosh, Tapas Paramanik, I Das, Indian Journal of Physics, 97, 1781-1786 (2022) 

14.  Mott breakdown effect in spinel MgTi1.2V0.8O4, A Rahaman, Tapas Paramanik, D Choudhury et al., Physical Review B 103, 245145 (2021), 

15.  Structure and physical properties of the solid solution Gd2–x NdxPdSi3 (x=0, 0.75, 1, 2), T Paramanik, A K Singh, S Roy, S.C. Peter, Bull. Mater. Sci., 43,1-7 (2020)

16.  Engineering room-temperature multiferroicity in Bi and Fe co-doped BaTiO3, P. Pal, T. Paramanik, Debraj Choudhury et al. Appl. Phys. Lett., 117,012901 (2020)

17.  Origin and tuning of room-temperature multiferroicity in Fe-doped BaTiO3,  P. Pal, K. Rudrapal, S. Mahana, S. Yadav, T. Paramanik, Debraj Choudhury et al. Physical Review B 101, 064409 (2020)

18.  Tetramer orbital ordering and lattice chirality in MnTi2O4, A Rahaman, M Chakraborty, Tapas Paramanik, RK Maurya, S Mahana, R Bindu, D Topwal, P Mahadevan and D Choudhury, Physical Review B, 100, 115162 (2019)

19.  Huge magnetoresistance and ultra-sharp metamagnetic transition  in polycrystalline Sm_0.5Ca_0.25Sr_0.25MnO_3,  S. Banik, K. Das, Tapas Paramanik, N. P. Lalla, B. Satpati, K. Pradhan and I. Das, NPG Asia Materials (Nature Publishing Group) (2018);  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41427-018-0085-7

20.  Characterization of magnetic phase in yttrium-doped polycrystalline    La_{1-x-y}Y_yCa_xMnO₃ with x=0.05,~ 0.33 and y=0.07 using dielectric and optical parameters, T. N Ghosh, U.N Nandi, D. Jana, Tapas Paramanik, Physica B, 507, 134–141(2017)

21.  Near room temperature giant magnetocaloric effect and giant negative magnetoresistance in Co, Ga substituted Ni-Mn-In Heusler alloy, Tapas Paramanik and I. Das, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 654, 399-403 (2016)

22.  Giant magnetocaloric effect at cryogenic temperature in gadolinium oxide nanotubes, Rima Paul, Tapas Paramanik, Kalipada Das , Pintu Sen , Biswarup Satpati , I. Das, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 417,182–188 (2016)

23.  Generation of magnetic phase diagram of HoRu₂Si₂ using magnetocaloric effect, Tapas Paramanik, K. Das,T. Samanta, I. Das, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 381,168–172 (2015)   

24.  Resistivity minima in disordered cluster glass intermetallic compound Dy₅Pd₂: Influence of quantum interference effects, Tapas Paramanik and I. Das, RSC Adv.,5, 78406 (2015)

25.  Giant Reversible and Irreversible Magnetic Entropy Change: Role of Magnetic Irreversibility in Dy₅Pd_2, Tapas Paramanik, T. Samanta, R Ranganathan and I. Das, RSC Adv., 5, 47860-47865 (2015)

26.  Giant magnetocaloric effect in Ln_0.5Ca_0.5 MnO₃ (Ln=Gd, Dy) compounds: Consequence of magnetic precursor effect of rare earth ions, K. Das, Tapas Paramanik and I. Das, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 374, 707–710 (2015)

27.  Observation of large magnetocaloric effect in HoRu₂Si_2, Tapas Paramanik, K. Das, T. Samanta, and I. Das, Journal of Applied Physics, 115, 083914 (2014) 

28.  Experimental and theoretical investigation of magnetocaloric behavior in HoRu₂Si_2, Tapas Paramanik, K. Das, T. Samanta, and I. Das, AIP Conf. Proc., 1447, 1185 (2012)

Reviewer of Journals:

    Nanoscale, Science of Advanced Materials, Journal of Applied Physics,  JMMM, JALCOM etc.

Member of Professional Bodies:

     1. The Physical Society, Life Member

     2. Magnetic Society of India, Life Member

     3. Material Research Society of India, Life Member

Additional Administrative Responsibilities:

   Institute Level

   Current:

   1. Serving as Associate Dean , Research & Consultancies (SSRI)

   Previous experiences:

     1. Served as  Associate Dean AA (Admissions & Scholarships)

     2. Served as OBC Liaison Officer

     3. Served as Nodal Officer (Study in India)

      4. Served as Nodal Officer (Swayam/NPTEL),

      5. Served as Associate Dean, Admissions & Scholarships

      6. Served as Associate Dean (Academics & Research)

      7. Served as Admissions Officer

      8. Served as Faculty in charge, I Year B Tech Physics Cycle

      9.  Served as Nodal Coordinator, Virtual Lab

     Departmental Level

            Current:

      1.  Serving as Head, Physics Division, School of Sciences

       2.  Serving as Chairperson, Departmental Purchase Committee

       3. Serving as Chairperson, Doctoral Committees

          Previous experiences:

       1. Served as Coordinator, Physics Department

       2. Served as Member, DAC UG

       3. Served as Member, DAC PG & R

       4. Served as Member, Departmental Purchase Committee

        5. Served as In-Charge Laboratories and Treasurer

        6. Served as Faculty in Charge, I BTech Physics Lab (Optics)

 Organizer of Symposium/ Conferences/Programmes:

•  Secretary : “XXI^st National Symposium on Ultrasonics (NSU 2016)” held at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata during 8-10^th  November 2016     

• Coordinator: Faculty Development Programme on "Advanced Materials and Characterization", at NIT Andhra Pradesh during 15 -19 Jun 2020

• Coordinator: Faculty Development Programme on "Recent Trends and Perspectives in Spintronic and Optical Materials", at NIT Andhra Pradesh during  26-30 Oct 2020
• Coordinator:  Webinar on "Opportunities in Indo-German Bilateral Funding Programmes", at NIT Andhra Pradesh on 22 Jul 2020
• Coordinator, National Science Day Celebrations 2022, at NIT Andhra Pradesh on 28 Feb 2022
• Co-Coordinator, National Science Day 2023, at NIT Andhra Pradesh during  27- 28 Feb 2023
• Coordinator, Awareness Programme on JoSAA Counselling and admission procedure- 2019, at NIT Andhra Pradesh on  16 Jun 2019
• Coordinator, Awareness Programme on JoSAA Counselling and admission procedure- 2020, at NIT Andhra Pradesh on 10 Oct 2020
• Coordinator, Awareness Programme on JoSAA Counselling and admission procedure- 2021, at NIT Andhra Pradesh on 20 Oct 2021

Schools and Conferences attended: 

1.  International School and Conference on Functional Materials held at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad during March 28- April 3, 2011
2.  DAE-Solid State Physics Symposium 2011 held at SRM University, Kattankulathur (Chennai) during December 19–23, 2011.
3. National Conference on Recent Trends On Material Science Research (RTMSR-2012) held at Srinagar J&K, India during September 3-5, 2012
4. Springer Nature Author Workshop, IIT Kharagpur, February 2018
5. Guest Speaker, CFNN 2020, Mahila Shilpa Kala Bhawan College, 06-07 Jul 2020
6. Invited Speaker, Recent Research Trends in Condensed Matter Physics, Y S Palpara Mahavidyalaya, 19 Sep 2020
7. Chief Speaker, Nanostructure for drug delivery, Mathakaragola Degree College, 26 Dec 2020

Awards:

•  National Scholarship  Award  for outstanding performance in Madhyamik examination from The Government Of  India in 2003
•  JAM(Joint Entrance to M.Sc. by IIT) 2008: ranked 123(All India Rank)
•  Awarded for having been placed among top 10% in Part- A of the Exam By Indian Association Of Physics Teachers
•  MCM Scholarship from IIT Kharagpur in 2009 & 2010
• GATE 2010 Rank -136,
• JEST 2010 Qualified,
• National Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017

Extra-Curricular activities:

•      Active participation in athletics in school.
•      Completed 5^th Year (with distinction) in Painting from Bangiya Sangeet  Parishad (Affiliated to- Rabindra Bharati University).
  
•      Active participation in cultural events like Rangoli and illumination at IIT Kharagpur
  
•      “A-certificate” in National Cadet Corps (NCC).