About Me.

Krish Dey is a postdoctoral research associate at the Condensed Matter Physics department at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Sciences at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also a Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering Science at Trinity College, University of Oxford. 

Krish graduated with a B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, India in 2016 with an award of 'Best Engineering Graduate' and a University gold medal as well as a silver medal for Departmental topper. He then went on to pursue an M. Eng. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He simultaneously held a Research Assistant post in the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) between 2016-18. Following this, he enrolled for a PhD in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge as a Cambridge India Ramanujan Scholar. He graduated in 2023 with a Best Thesis Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Energy Sector).

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His research is primarily centred on energy and electronic materials for application in solar cells, light emitting diodes, transistors and solar fuels. He has raised a total of ~£150K from various funding agencies including the Henry Royce Institute and EPSRC. He has received several awards including the Hudswell International Research Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Graduate Student Award from the European Materials Science society and has been a Student Award Finalist for World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-8) among many others.

 

Krish has supervised several undergraduate students for their MPhys/MChem projects in Oxford. He is also very active in several outreach and access initiatives through the department and beyond. He is committed to the climate cause and envisions contributing to solving this global challenge through scientific innovations. For his full CV, click below: