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Talks, appointments, publications, and milestones.

Mar 11, 2026 A comprehensive overview of density functional theory is now available in the blog section.
Mar 04, 2025 Presented work on density-functional embedding for realistic environments at the NOA Meeting Spring 2025 (Dornburg, Germany).
Feb 01, 2025 Started a postdoc with Prof. Marek Sierka’s Computational Materials Science group at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, implementing density-functional and post-density-functional methods in TURBOMOLE.
Dec 03, 2024 Defended my PhD thesis at TIFR Mumbai. Title: Fifth-Rung Density Functionals for Open-Shell Intermolecular Interactions and Negative Ion Resonances.
Sep 22, 2024 Talk at the Molecular Electronic Structure (MES) Conference on exact exchange and dynamical long-range polarization for negative ion resonances.
Sep 17, 2024 Spoke at Turbomole: Today and Tomorrow on beyond-RPA corrections for open-shell intermolecular interactions, and on the density-functional and post-density-functional methods I’m now implementing inside TURBOMOLE.
Aug 30, 2024 Awarded a CSIR international travel grant to attend the Turbomole: Today and Tomorrow meeting.
Aug 14, 2024 Awarded ANRF/SERB international travel support to attend the Molecular Electronic Structure (MES) Conference.
May 14, 2024 Presented my PhD synopsis seminar at TIFR Mumbai, summarising five years of work on fifth-rung functionals.
May 12, 2024 Our JPCL paper on negative ion resonances was selected as the journal cover for the May 9, 2024 issue.
Dec 29, 2023 Our paper on generalized perturbative single-excitation corrections for open-shell noncovalent interactions was accepted in J. Chem. Phys..