CORE FACULTY

Education
• Ph.D. Physics, 2019, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Five-year Integrated MSc in Physics. 2013, UM-DAE-CEBS, Mumbai, India

Experience
• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2022- present
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2018 – 2022.

Research Interests
• Electron hydrodynamics
•Scanning SET
• Electron optics
• Moire Physics in mesoscopic devices
• Developing novel Scanning techniques

Research Area
Quantum Sensing, Scanning SET of 2D materials, Quantum transport of van der Waals heterostructures, Nanoelectronics, Electron hydrodynamics, Low temperature physics, Moire superlattice

Recent Publications

• Mehra, A., Mathew, R. J., & Kumar, C. (2023). Origin of electrical noise near charge neutrality in dual gated graphene device. Applied Physics Letters, 123(12).
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0147446

Key Publications (*outside of CeNSE)

• Kumar, C., Birkbeck, J., Sulpizio, J. A., Perello, D., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., … & Ilani, S. (2022). Imaging hydrodynamic electrons flowing without Landauer–Sharvin resistance. Nature, 609(7926), 276-281. *
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05002-7
• Kumar, C., Kuiri, M., Jung, J., Das, T., & Das, A. (2016). Tunability of 1/f noise at multiple Dirac cones in hBN encapsulated graphene devices. Nano letters, 16(2), 1042-1049. *
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04116
• Kumar, C., & Das, A. (2021). Effect of boron nitride defects and charge inhomogeneity on 1/f noise in encapsulated graphene. Applied physics letters, 119(22). *
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0071152