Dr. Surjit Sahoo is currently working as a National Post doctoral Fellow at the School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He completed his PhD in Mechatronics Engineering from Jeju National University, South Korea. He joined as a PhD scholar in the Nanomaterials System lab in 2016 under the “Brain Korea Fellowship” scheme. His thesis work was focused on the electrochemical energy storage devices (supercapacitors), energy harvesting systems (nanogenerator), and the fabrication of self-powered devices for both energy conversion and storage using nanomaterials (transition metal oxides (TMOs), transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs), and 2D materials. The thesis topic was “Development of Nanostructured Electrode Materials for Self-Charging Supercapacitor Power Cell”.

He received his m aster’s degree in Electronics Science from Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, West Bengal, and b achelor’s degree in Electronics Science from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha . He worked as a junior research Fellow at IIT Bhubaneswar . He has published over 35 research articles as first author and co-author in leading international journals and attended about 40 conferences (both international and domestic) to demonstrate his research experiences. He has a total journal citation count of about 1500, with h-index and i10-index of 24 and 34, respectively.

Dr. Sahoo’s Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research focuses on the “development of flexible-stretchable micro-supercapacitors towards driving of portable and wearable electronics”. The outcome of this work is expected to provide insights into the fabrication of various types of micro-supercapacitors with high performance metrics.