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Computational Material Scientist with 15 years of research experience

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-avijeet-ray-b6578a33/ 15 years of research experience in Computational Physics/Material Science with solid communication and collaboration skills. An expert in first-principles (DFT) computation and a track record of high-quality scientific publications like Nature Materials and presentations at various prestigious international conferences. Currently using the state-of-art methodology to study 2D materials and their heterostructures for green energy applications and serving as a review editor for Frontier in Physics journal. 1. A mentor with great of experience training young students (e.g. High School/B.Tech/MS/Ph.D.) in their scientific projects, assisted a principal investigator in leading a large group (~40), at KAUST, Saudi Arabia (2019-2024) and currently serving as a review editor for Frontier in Physics journal. 2. Grading panel member and mentor of the Saudi Research Science Institute (SRSI) in 2021 and 2022, respectively at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. 3. Assisted a Principal Investigator (PI) to lead a talented and diverse group of researchers (~40) and successfully completed many scientific projects. It involves cutting-edge research project discussion and regular meetings with IT and HR departments for critical problem-solving. Actively involved in the entire hiring process of postdoctoral researcher for CPMS Lab, KAUST, Saudi Arabia. 4. Act as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, and Ab-initio Computational Methods courses in 2019-2022 at KAUST, Saudi Arabia.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Quantum Mechanics
• ☆ Theoretical Physics
• ☆ Computational Physics
• ☆ Applied Physics

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Data Insights

Work Experience

Postdoc

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

May 2024 - Present

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

UNIMORE, Modena, Italy

May 2024 - December 2025

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

KAUST, Saudi Arabia

January 2019 - January 2024

Postdoc

KAUST

January 2019 - January 2024

Education

PhD

IIT Roorkee

March 2013 - October 2018

PhD (Physics)

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

March 2013 - October 2018

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Avijeet Ray, Shubham Tyagi, Nirpendra Singh, Udo Schwingenschlögl (2024). Magnetic tunnel junction based on bilayer LaI2 as perfect spin filter device . npj 2D Materials and Applications.

Avijeet Ray, T. Susikumar, G. John, Navaneethan Mani, Mihir Ranjan Sahoo, Nirpendra Singh, P. Justin Jesuraj (2024). Empowering the Nickel Iron Oxyhydroxide through a Heterostructure Cocatalyst for Superior Alkaline and Saline Water Reduction . ACS Applied Energy Materials.

Avijeet Ray, Paresh C. Rout, Udo Schwingenschlögl (2023). Ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in a superlattice of antiferromagnetic perovskite oxides without ferroelectric polarization . npj Computational Materials.

Avijeet Ray, Mihir Ranjan Sahoo, Rajeev Ahuja, Nirpendra Singh (2023). Activation of metal-free porous basal plane of biphenylene through defects engineering for hydrogen evolution reaction . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

Avijeet Ray, S. Gopalakrishnan, Mihir Ranjan Sahoo, Nirpendra Singh, S. Harish, E. Senthil Kumar, M. Navaneethan (2023). NiCo₂S₄ cocatalyst supported Si nanowire heterostructure for improved solar-driven water reduction: experimental and theoretical insights . Sustainable Energy & Fuels.

Avijeet Ray, Gokaran Shukla, Hasan M. Abdullah, Shubham Tyagi, Aurélien Manchon, Stefano Sanvito, Udo Schwingenschlögl (2023). ZnSe and ZnTe as tunnel barriers for Fe-based spin valves . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Avijeet Ray, Hiba Al-Jayyousi, Mathan Kumar Eswaran, Muhammad Sajjad, J. Andreas Larsson, Nirpendra Singh (2022). Exploring the Superior Anchoring Performance of the Two-Dimensional Nanosheets B₂C₄P₂ and B₃C₂P₃ for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries . ACS Omega.

Avijeet Ray, S. Gopalakrishnan, G. Paulraj, Mathan K. Eswaran, Nirpendra Singh, K. Jeganathan (2022). VS2 wrapped Si nanowires as core-shell heterostructure photocathode for highly efficient photoelectrochemical water reduction performance . Chemosphere.

Avijeet Ray, Junzhu Li, Mingguang Chen, Abdus Samad, Haocong Dong, Junwei Zhang, Xiaochuan Jiang, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Jari Domke, Cailing Chen, et al. (2022). Wafer-scale single-crystal monolayer graphene grown on sapphire substrate . Nature Materials.

Avijeet Ray, Mihir Ranjan Sahoo, Nirpendra Singh (2022). Theoretical Insights into the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on VGe₂N₄ and NbGe₂N₄ Monolayers . ACS Omega.

Ray, Avijeet, Dey, Dibyendu, Yu, Liping(2022). Intrinsic ferromagnetism and restrictive thermodynamic stability in $\mathrmMA_2\mathrmN_4$ and Janus $\mathrmVSiGeN_4$ monolayers . Phys. Rev. Mater. 6. p. L061002. American Physical Society

Avijeet Ray, Shubham Tyagi, Nirpendra Singh, Udo Schwingenschlögl (2021). Inducing Half-Metallicity in Monolayer MoSi₂N₄ . ACS Omega.

Avijeet Ray, Subhasree Pradhan, M.S. Laad, T. Maitra, A. Taraphder (2021). Hidden Fermi liquidity and topological criticality in the finite temperature Kitaev model . Solid State Communications.

Avijeet Ray, Padmanabhan Balasubramanian, Shalik Ram Joshi, Ruchika Yadav, Frank M F de Groot, Amit Kumar Singh, Mukul Gupta, Ankita Singh, Satyendra Maurya, Suja Elizabeth, et al. (2018). Electronic structure of Pr₂MnNiO₆from x-ray photoemission, absorption and density functional theory . Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

Avijeet Ray, Sunil Kumar, Jaswinder Pal, Shubhpreet Kaur, Vandana Sharma, Sajjan Dahiya, P.D. Babu, Mandeep Singh, Tulika Maitra, Anupinder Singh (2018). Correlation between multiferroic properties and processing parameters in NdFeO3-PbTiO3 solid solutions . Journal of Alloys and Compounds.

Avijeet Ray, Ankita Singh, A. Jain, Padmanabhan B., Ruchika Yadav, Vivian Nassif, Sajid Husain, S. M. Yusuf, T. Maitra, V. K. Malik (2017). Spin reorientation in<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mtext>NdFe</mml:mtext></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>0.5</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>Mn</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>0.5</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">O</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math>: Neutron scattering and<i>ab initio</i>study . Physical Review B.

Avijeet Ray, Sant Kumar (2017). Phase Transitions in Spin-1/2 Falicov–Kimball Model on a Two-dimensional Triangular Lattice . Journal of Low Temperature Physics.

Avijeet Ray, Soma Sanyal (2013). Baryon inhomogeneities in a charged quark gluon plasma . Physics Letters B.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Avijeet Ray, Tulika Maitra (2017). First principles study of transport gap in zircon and scheelite type of GdCrO4 . AIP Conference Proceedings.

Avijeet Ray, Tulika Maitra (2015). Electronic structure and 3d-4f exchange interactions in zircon-type RCrO4 oxides (R=Dy, Ho and Gd) . AIP Conference Proceedings.