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Prof. Dr. Upendra Harbola

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
May 2022 – August 2022

E-Mail: uharbola@iisc.ac.in

Last Update: 31.08.2022

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Upendra Harbola holds an M.Sc. degree in Physics (1996), and a Ph.D. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Irvine from 2004-2008 and at University of California, San Diego, from 2008-2011.  He is currently a faculty in Chemistry at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

His main research is focused on developing theoretical methods to study quantum transport phenomena using the standard tools of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, with an emphasis to understand charge/heat transport and opto-electronic responses of molecular junctions, quantum heat engines, ultrafast charge migration and ionization processes in molecules. His contributions in this field include a perturbative formulation of opto-electronic signals from molecular junctions, Liouville-space approach to study transport and its fluctuations in quantum junctions. He is also interested in studying quantum effects in liquid-glass transition phenomena using mode-coupling and computer simulation methods.

He has published more than 60 research articles, and delivered several invited lectures.

Selected Publications

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