Dr. Shashaank Gupta

Research Scientist

Shashaank received his PhD from Virginia Tech in the field of lead-free piezoelectrics. Prior to that, he had obtained master’s degrees in Material Science and Physics from IIT Kanpur and MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, respectively. Before joining Virginia Tech India, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Virginia Tech for a year. The focus of his research is on exploring the structure-property relationships in ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials. Besides, his research interests also include application of piezoelectrics for variety of devices and usage of metal oxides, especially perovskites, for energy storage.

Active research areas-
1-Computational and experimental investigations on the
domain switching behavior in piezoelectrics
2-First principle studies on the structure and functional
properties of distorted perovskites
3-Rare-earth doped, lead-based piezoelectrics for device application
4-Development of high performance lead-free piezoelectrics
5-Metal oxides for energy storage