Professor Sohini Kar-Narayan

Winner: 2023 Materials Chemistry mid-career Prize: Peter Day Prize

University of Cambridge

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Sohini Kar-Narayan is Professor of Device & Energy Materials in 乐天堂app下载 Department of Materials Science at 乐天堂app下载 University of Cambridge. She leads an interdisciplinary research group working on functional nanomaterials and devices for energy, sensing and biomedical applications. In 2009, she received her PhD in Physics from 乐天堂app下载 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In 2012, she was awarded a prestigious Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship.

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