Medha Dandu

Dr. Medha is an Assistant Professor at the Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU) since November 2024. Her research focuses on understanding and tuning the optical and optoelectronic properties of 2D materials, their heterostructures, and hybrid interfaces with emerging nanomaterials, using optical spectroscopy and correlative microscopy techniques. Before joining JNCASR, she worked as a postdoc in the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Earlier, she worked as a research engineer at the Centre for Development of Telematics, Bangalore (2014-2015). She obtained Ph.D. (and M.E.) from the Indian Institute of Science (2015-2022) and B.Tech. from NIT Warangal (2010-2014) in Electrical Communication Engineering.