About me

I am a theoretical physicist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, working in the group of Prof. Dr. Tomaš Bzdušek.

My research revolves around topological phases of matter on unconventional lattice geometries. I am particularly interested in Cayley lattices — a class of crystalline structures built from group-theoretic constructions (Cayley graphs) that can naturally host non-Abelian gauge fields — and in hyperbolic lattices, the discrete analogs of periodic structures in negatively curved space. A major goal is to bridge these abstract mathematical structures with experiments, especially through topolectric circuits (LC circuit networks that realize topological band structures).

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz (with Dr. Marco Marciani) and at the University of Würzburg (with Prof. Dr. Ronny Thomale and Prof. Dr. Igor Boettcher). I completed my PhD at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon under the supervision of Dr. Pierre Delplace, where I studied Floquet topological phases in photonic systems.

See research interests and publications for more details.

Short CV

• 2026 – 2028 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich, Physik-Institut, Switzerland. Collaborator: Prof. Dr. Tomaš Bzdušek.
• 2025 – 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Group of Prof. Dr. Tomaš Bzdušek.
• 2022 – 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Collaborator: Dr. Marco Marciani.
• 2020 – 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Group of Prof. Dr. Ronny Thomale.
• 2016 – 2020 PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Adviser: Dr. Pierre Delplace, CNRS.
• 2013 – 2015 M.Sc. Physics, CEBS, University of Mumbai, India. Adviser: Prof. Dr. Pinaki Majumdar, HRI.
• 2010 – 2013 B.Sc. Physics, CEBS, University of Mumbai, India. Adviser: Prof. Dr. Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee, HRI.

Fellowships & Honours

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF), 2026–2028
• Seal of Excellence in MSCA-PF evaluation, 2025
• Selected for the Humboldt meets Leibniz conference, Germany, 2022
• INSPIRE Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, 2010–2015
• National Science Olympiad — All India Rank 475, 2009
• Silver Medal (93/100), National Mathematics Olympiad, 2008

Supervision

Students

• Alexander Stegmaier (PhD): Universality of Hofstadter butterflies on hyperbolic lattices & topological temporal pumping in electrical circuits (co-supervised with Prof. Igor Boettcher).
• Alexander Fritzsche (PhD): Fate of photonic Floquet topological insulator under strain-induced curvature (theory side).
• Riccardo Sorbello (MSc): Non-Hermitian skin-effect mode manipulation in graphene with periodic drive (co-supervised with Prof. Ching Hua Lee).

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