डॉ राखी आर बी

- डॉ राखी आर बी
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Dr. Rakhi R.B., a native of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala is a first rank holder of M.Sc. Physics from University of Kerala in 2000. She received her Ph.D. in Physics with the best thesis award, from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai in July 2009. She completed her postdoctoral research training from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She worked as a UGC-Assistant professor (June 2019 – August 2021) at the Department of Physics, University of Kerala. Dr. Rakhi R.B. is currently a Principal Scientist at the Materials Science and Technology Division of CSIR–NIIST. Dr. Rakhi is the recipient of the Ramanujan fellowship in 2016, International SABIC postdoctoral fellowship award consecutively for 2013 and 2014. She has published more than 78 articles in international peer reviewed journals with more than 6800 citations and has an h-index of 36. Her name has been included in the Stanford Global top 2% scientists list consecutively for the last three years (2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022) published by Elsevier, Netherlands. Her current research interests include functional nanomaterials (nanocarbons, Transition Metal Oxides, and Conducting Polymers) nanocomposites, layered materials (Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and MXenes), nanotechnology-enabled energy storage devices (supercapacitors and hybrid devices), electrocatalysis, and electrochemical sensors.