Navaneetha Krishnan Ravichandran
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston College, USA – 2016-2019
PhD , California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA – 2012-2016
MS, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA – 2011-2012
Dual degree (B. Tech. & M. Tech.), IIT Madras – 2006-2011
Research Interests
- Optical pump-probe spectroscopy experiments on thermal and electronic transport in solids
- First-principles computation of thermal and electronic material properties
- Nanoscale heat conduction, electronics cooling & thermoelectric waste heat recovery
- Thermodynamics and phase change of crystalline solids
- Interactions among energy carriers (phonons and electrons) in semiconductors, insulators and metals
Selected Recent Publications
- Navaneetha K. Ravichandran & David Broido, Phys. Rev. X 10, 021063, 2020
- Ke Chen*, Bai Song*, Navaneetha K. Ravichandran* et al., Science 367 (6477), 555-559, 2020
- Navaneetha K. Ravichandran & David Broido, Nature Communications 10 (827), 2019
- Navaneetha K. Ravichandran, Hang Zhang & Austin Minnich, Physical Review X 8 (4), 041004, 2018
- Fei Tian, Bai Song, Xi Chen, Navaneetha K. Ravichandran et al., Science 361 (6402), 582-585, 2018
Selected Awards and Academic Activities
- Recipient of the Dow-Resnick Graduate Fellowship at Caltech (2014-2016)
- Recipient of the GALCIT Graduate Fellowship at Caltech (2011-2012)
- Recipient of the Anantharamakrishnan Merit Prize at IIT Madras (2011)
- Recipient of the Institute Merit Award at IIT Madras (twice: 2008 & 2010)
- Journal reviewer for: Nature Communications, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review Applied, CARBON, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Journal of Applied Physics & Applied Physics Letters.