Dr. Pramod K

Dr Pramod K

Assistant Professor

School of Pure & Applied Physics
Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam-686 560,India

E-mail: pramodk@mgu.ac.in; pramd.k145@gmail.com

Phone: +91-9444953087; +91-6374609082

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Physics from Pondicherry University- Pondichery
Postdoctoral Researcher,Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (ICSR), IIT Madras
Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor,School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University (Jul 2022 – Sep 2025)
Visiting Researcher,IISER Thiruvananthapuram (Apr – Jun 2025)
Visiting Faculty,Sarsen Amanzholov University, Kazakhstan (Apr 2024)
Postdoctoral Researcher,Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (ICSR), IIT Madras (Jun – Sep 2021)
Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras (May 2018 – May 2021)

Areas of Research Interest

Organic Electronics & Memory Devices:Ferroelectric polymer-based resistive and ferroelectric memory, low-voltage ferroelectric switching, polymer ferroelectric phototransistor memory.
Sensors & MEMS:Design and development of surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors, MEMS devices.
Advanced Materials Characterization:Nanoscale investigation of functional materials using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Piezoelectric Force Microscopy (PFM), and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM).
Energy Harvesting & Storage:Nanogenerators (piezoelectric/triboelectric/pyroelectric), Perovskite solar cells, and supercapacitors.

Awards & Recognitions

Coursera Master Mentor,Digital Teaching and Learning Innovator (2025)
Quantum Computing Certification,C-DAC Hyderabad & IIT Roorkee (2025)
Best Poster Award,International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Singapore (2017)
SERB International Travel Support(2017)
Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship,UGC, Govt. of India (2011-2016)

Selected Publications

Abhijith, B. Akhila, K. Pramod, Tapas Ranjan Mohanty, C. Sivakumar, S. Ramakrishnan, Sabu Thomas, and M.S. Sreekala. “Recent advances in metal oxide reinforced polymer composites for efficient piezoelectric energy harvesting applications.” Applied Energy, 397 (2025), 126335.
Ravisankar, M. S., K. Pramod, and R. B. Gangineni. “Effect of the top electrode on local piezoelectric and the ferroelectric response of PVDFthin films in PVDF/Au/Si and Ag/PVDF/Au/Si multilayers.” Applied Physics A, 129 (2023), 146.
S.Ravi Sankar, K. Pramod, R. B. Gangineni, (2019),” Local ferroelectric studies on interconnected PVDF nano-dot thin films using piezo force microscopy,” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 30 (2019), 20716-20724.
Pramod, R. B. Gangineni, “High-voltage transition studies from rectification to resistive switching in Ag/PVDF/Au capacitor-like structures,” Polymer Bulletin, 75 (2018), 2769-2778.
Pramod, R. B. Gangineni,” Rectifying electronic transport & the role of Fowler-Nordheim tunneling in Ag/PVDF/Au capacitor structures,” Current Applied Physics, 17 (2017), 1469-1475.