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Prof. Dr. Tamalika Banerjee

Professor, Group Leader

Room: 5113.0226
Tel.: (+31 50 36) 383 94
Mail: t.banerjee@rug.nl

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TAMALIKA BANERJEE is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and the Chair of Spintronics for Functional Materials group at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, and member of CogniGron Centre. Her research group primarily works on Oxide Spintronics and their devices for brain-inspired computing. She is also the Founder (2024) of IMChip, whose patented technology is used for neuromorphic computing hardware for sustainable and responsible AI applications.
She is also a Visiting Faculty at CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2026- ).
She also held a Scientific Associate Investigator position at FLEET, ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Australia (till 2024).
She is a Senior member of IEEE, member of APS, ACS, Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging. She serves in different committees: Advisory Board member TU-Ilmenau School of Green Electronics, Germany, Scientific Advisory Board member of the Lorentz Centre, the Netherlands, Scientific Associate Investigator, FLEET, ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Australia, Program Board member-CogniGron Centre, member Steering Group Nanolab-NL,NWO Domain-WG Physics for Technology and Instrumentation.
Her research group focusses on studying emergent phenomena at quantum critical regions, exploiting strong correlation effects and topology in spintronics and electronic devices using complex oxides, graphene and topological insulators. This has led to several important applications in the field of brain inspired computing and probabilistic computing. Key highlights of her scientific career include i) establishing new research direction on integrating conventional magnetic tunnel junctions, a fundamental spintronic device used in Hard disk drives, on Si for studying non-equilibrium transport of holes and electrons for Complementary Spintronics (C-SPIN), ii) pioneered a new nanoscale technique to probe spin transport and magnetic domains at buried device interfaces, iii) novel emergent phenomena particularly related to topological magnetism and logic-in-memory applications, iv) established new research direction using memristors of oxide materials for brain inspired computing hardware and for probabilistic computing.
She obtained her PhD from the University of Madras, India, working on ‘Studying irradiation effects in high temperature superconductors’, receiving the Best thesis award from the Indian Physics Association. She was a Visiting Scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT, USA , working on Spintronics:Magnetic Tunnel junctions and studied their radiation hardness. During her Post Doctoral stay at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India she worked on vortex dynamics in high temperature superconductors, before she joined the MESA⁺ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, where she pioneered a new technique to study spintronic devices on the nanometer scale (BEHM), applying it to metallic, oxide, and graphite spin valve structures, also in collaboration with Hitachi research labs. She is an Editorial Board Member of Advanced Physics Research (Wiley), of Scientific Reports (npj) and an Associate Editor (Nanoelectronics) in Frontiers in Nanotechnology journals. Her research is funded by EU, NWO-VIDI, NWO-nano (FOM), NWO-DST,  NWA and Dieptestrategie and CogniGron grants.

PhDs

Ishitro Bhaduri

PhD: Sept 2023-

Hitesh Chhabra

PhD: Aug 2024 (NL-ECO)

Himanshu Rai

PhD: Sept 2024

Ayush Gupta
PhD: May 2025-

Current Master student:
Pradnesh Mahadeshwar
(Nanoscience TopMaster Sept 2025.-

Recently graduated PhDs

Azminul Jaman
PhD: Oct 2020-Sept.2025

(now at IMChip)

Job van Rijn
PhD: Oct 2019-Sept 2024
(now at Bronkhorst)

Anouk Goossens
PhD: (2018-2023)
Post Doc: CNRS Thales
now at Nellow

Current Bacehlor Students:

Stefania Olteanu

Aurelia Oleszkiewicz

Uma Puentes

Former Members

Dr. Eswara Phanindra Post Doc: 2019-2021

Dr. Perihan Aksu Visiting Post Doc: Tubitak (2021-2022)

PhD's in Spintronics of Functional Materials Group:

Azminul Jaman
(Phd 2025)
Topic:'Phase Complexity Enabled Resistive switching dynamics in thin La0.7Sr0.3MnO₃ thin films for brain-inspired computing'

Job van Rijn
(Phd 2024)
Topic:'Spin and magnon transport in domains of strained antiferromagnetic SrMnO₃ films'

Anouk Goossens

(PhD 2023: cum laude)
Topic:'Complex Oxides for computing beyond von Neumann'

Ping Zhang

(PhD completed in 2023)
Topic: 'Magnetic anisotropy induced novel phenomenona in itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO₃ thin films'

Si Chen

(PhD completed in 2022)
Topic: 'Charge and spin transport across graphene and multifunctional oxide interfaces'
Position: Johnson & Johnson, Groningen

Arjan Auke Burema

(PhD completed in 2021)
Topic: 'Angle-dependent magnetoresistance in epitaxially straine-engineered thin films'
Positions: TNO, now at ASML, Netherlands

Arijit Das

(PhD completed in 2021)
Topic: 'Spin transport across oxide semiconductors and antiferromagnetic oxide interfaces'
Positions: Post doc Spintech, Grenoble, now at IMEC-Leuven (Lithography)

Nilesh Awari

(PhD completed in 2019)
Topic: 'Near Fermi level dynamics in materials with THz spectroscopy'

Eric K. de Vries

(PhD completed in 2017)
Topic: 'Taking Topological Insulators for a spin'
Now Consultant Technical Innovations, PNO Consultants, Amsterdam

Roald Ruiter

(PhD completed in 2017)
Topic: 'Electric field modulation of spin and charge transport in two dimensional materials and complex oxide hybrids'
Now at Filsom AG, Switzerland

Sander A. M. Kamerbeek

(PhD completed in 2016)
Topic: 'Charge and spin transport in Nb-doped SrTiO_3­ using Co/AlO_x spin injection contacts'
At UMCG, Groningen

Saurabh Roy

(PhD completed in 2015)
Topic: 'Engineering complex oxide interfaces for oxide electronics'
Now at Infineon Technologies, Villach, Austria

Kumari Gaurav Rana

(PhD completed in 2013)
Topic: 'Electron transport across complex oxide heterointerfaces'
Previously at Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Spintec, Grenoble
Currently at ASML, Netherlands

Subir Parui

(PhD completed in 2013)
Topic: 'Hot electron transport in metallic spin valve and graphene-silicon devices at the nanoscale'
Prevously at IMEC-Leuven, CIC-nanoGune-Spain
Currently at ASM, Leuven

Former Master students (listed only from 2018)

Konstantinos (Kostas) Panagiotis Rompotis (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Ishitro Bhaduri (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Jhe-Ahn Lin (short project Nanoscience Top Master's)
Wissem Boubaker (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Mihai Andrei Frantiu (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Divyanshu Gupta (Exchange BITS-Pilani-Goa)
Donato Ottamano (short project Nanoscience Top Master's)
Yahia Mostafa (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Miina Leiviskä (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Adam Watson (Physics)
Job van Rijn (Applied Physics)
Bart Zillen (Applied Physics)
Arjan Burema (Nanoscience Top Master's)
Atreya Majumdar (Nanoscience Top Master's)

Bachelor students (last 5 years only)

Tarek Jaber
Marijn Veenstra
Darius-Andrei Pacurar
Miranda Jacqueline Buil Contreras
Ayush Gupta
Symen Schilstra
Leander van der Zee
Alida Johanna van Hunnik
Wissem Boubaker
Yari Katar Knelissen
Ishitro Bhaduri
Mihai Andrei Frantiu
Miina Leiviskä