T. (Tamalika) Banerjee, Prof

Tamalika Banerjee is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and a Full Professor of 'Spintronics of Functional Materials' in the Physics of Nanodevices group at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. 

She studied Physics at Presidency University, Kolkata, India and obtained her PhD from the University of Madras, India. She was a Visiting Scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT, USA and a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, before she joined the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2009, she moved to the University of Groningen and since spring 2019, is a Full Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. She is also a Scientific Associate Investigator, FLEET, ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Australia.

Her research group ‘Spintronics of Functional Materials’ focusses on studying emergent phenomena at quantum critical regions, exploiting strong correlation effects and topology in quantum materials. Their work is fundamental to the understanding and control of topological magnetism and relevant for the study and design of  reconfigurable spintronics architecture for alternative computing applications such as in neuromorphic computing. Earlier, she pioneered a new technique, known as the Ballistic Electron Emission microscopy, to study spintronic devices at the nanometer scale which has been applied to different material systems and their devices.  

Her research is funded by NWO-VIDI, NWO-nano (FOM), NWO-DST,  NWA and Dieptestrategie and Cognigron grants.

She is a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Lorentz Centre, Program Board member of the Cognigron Centre, member of the Steering group of NanolabNL and of the NWO Domain Science working group on Physics for Technology and Instrumentation.

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.

She is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of several professional societies.

More information can be obtained at : https://www.rug.nl/research/zernike/physics-of-nanodevices/banerjee-group/