Dr. Dheeraj Kumar Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (RISE), TCG CREST, Kolkata. His research focuses on solid-state batteries (SSBs) and the fundamental relationships among electrochemistry, mechanics, microstructure, and charge transport. His current interests include lithium-metal anodes, solid–solid interfaces and interphases, dendrite growth, diffusion, current constriction, fracture and creep, solid-state ionics, and operando/in-situ characterization using XPS, AFM, SEM, KPFM, and impedance spectroscopy. Before joining TCG CREST in December 2022, he was a Research Associate in Prof. Jürgen Janek’s group at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, where he investigated lithium-metal instability and microstructure-dependent failure in SSBs. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science from JNCASR, Bengaluru, under Prof. M. Eswaramoorthy. His work has been published in journals including Matter, Advanced Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition. He is an inventor on an Indian patent concerning high-surface-area ordered porous carbon.
Dr. Singh is the Principal Investigator of a DST-supported project on morphologically tuned single-crystal NMC811 cathodes for SSBs and has contributed to establishing advanced solid-state battery, in-situ XPS, FIB-SEM/TOF-SIMS, and glovebox AFM facilities at TCG CREST. He also teaches electrochemistry, thermodynamics, impedance spectroscopy, diffusion in solids, materials characterization, and mechanics of interfaces.
Contact: dheeraj.kumar.singh@tcgcrest.org
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