Team

PI: Jyotirmoy Mandal

Dr Mandal’s research involves understanding and controlling nano-to-macro scale radiative heat flows in both natural environments and artificial surfaces, with characterizing and mitigating ambient heat in a warming world as a guiding theme. On the scientific front, his work lies at the intersection of optics and materials science, and involves the creation of photonic and plasmonic metamaterials and designs with novel optical properties. On the Civil and Environmental Engineering front, he designs scalable materials that radiatively thermoregulate and make human environments more sustainable and climate resilient.

Dr Mandal’s other research interests include optical component design for infrared heat detection and characterization, water harvesting using passive cooling technologies, modelling large-scale impact of radiative cooling designs for geoengineering, and optical/radiative phenomena in the natural world.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Graduate Students

Anson Tsang – Third year graduate student.

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (with a minor in Computer Science), Georgia Institute of Technology

Nithin Jo Varghese – Third year graduate student

B. Tech. Mechanical Engineering, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

Mathis Degeorges – Second year graduate student.

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon.

Undergraduate Students

  • Nal Xaviera – senior thesis advisee – Class of 2025
  • Su Fey Ng – senior thesis advisee – Class of 2025
  • Hyunjoon Kim – senior thesis advisee – Class of 2024

Visiting Scholars

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Doctoral, Postdoctoral, and Undergraduate Colleagues

Postdoctoral (UCLA)

Doctoral (Columbia)

Undergraduate (Vanderbilt)