CURRICULUM VITAE: JUN.-PROF. DR. JASNAMOL PEZHUMKATTIL PALAKKAL

• Since 09/2022: Junior Professor (W1)Complex Thin Film Systems / Advanced Epitaxy; Institute for Materials Physics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
• 12/2019 – 08/2022: Principal Investigator, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Individual Research Grant (Basic Module and Own Position); Institute of Materials Science, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (Group: Prof. Dr. Lambert Alff)
• 08/2018 – 11/2019: Postdoctoral fellow Institute of Materials Science, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (Group: Prof. Dr. Lambert Alff)
• 02/2018 – 06/2018: Postdoctoral fellow; Materials Science and Technology Division, CSIR - National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Trivandrum, India (Group: Prof. Dr. Manoj Raama Varma)
• 01/2012 – 12/2017: Research Fellow (Ph.D.); Materials Science and Technology Division, CSIR - National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Trivandrum, India (Group: Prof. Dr. Manoj Raama Varma)
• 10/2016 – 11/2016 & 11/2015 – 12/2015: Visiting researcher (India-Slovenia bilateral project); Materials Research Laboratory, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia (Group: Prof. Dr. Matjaž Valant)
• 05/2014 – 06/2014: Visiting researcher; Spintronics and Thin Film Magnetism Lab, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India (Group: Prof. Dr. P.S. Anil Kumar)

• 2018: Future Talent short-term fellowship
• 2018: Future Talent Guest Stay Ingenium, Technical University of Darmstadt‚ Germany
• 2014: Senior research fellowship
• 2012: Junior research fellowship; University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of India, India

• 12/2017: PhD in Science; ‘Magnetic, transport and magnetotransport properties of perovskites La₂BMnO₆ (B=Fe, Cu, and Cr)’; University: AcSIR-Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, CSIR-NIIST Campus, Trivandrum, India
• 06/2011: ‘National Eligibility Test’ for lectureship in Physical Sciences (Teaching qualification); Commission: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and University Grant Commission (UGC), Govt. of India
• 07/2010: Master of Science (MSc) in Physics
• 04/2008: Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics University: University of Calicut, Kerala, India

• Since 02/2023: Supervision of theses (Physics: doctorate) at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
• Since 09/2022: Offering regular lectures and lab courses in the fields of materials and solid-state physics at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
• 08/2018 - 08/2022: Contributed to the regular lectures and lab courses in the fields of materials and solid-state physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• Since 2012: Supervision of theses (Physics and Materials Science: B.Sc., M.Sc., and M.Phil.) at CSIR-NIIST India, TU Darmstadt, Germany, and Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany

• Doctoral thesis supervisor of 3 PhD students
• Doctoral advisory board member of 3 PhD students
• Member of 11 PhD examination committees

• [1] ‘Epitaxial growth of magnetic materials with potential in electrocatalysis’, The 38th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS 38), Braga, Portugal, August 2025
• [2] ‘Growth and characterization of epitaxial thin films of van der Waals Magnet Cr_(1+δ)Te₂’, Summer Semester 2025 Materials Science Colloquium, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2025
• [3] ‘Growth of van der Waals Magnet Cr_(1+δ)Te₂ using a Hybrid Pulsed Laser Deposition Technique’, Taiwan-Europe-Australia Science Collaboration Symposium, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, February 2025
• [4] ‘Growth of Transition Metal Tellurides and Oxides Using Hybrid Deposition Technique for Use in Magnetic Memory and Applied Electrochemistry’, Symposium “Energy Research for Carbon Neutral Future”, Hosts: I²CNER Japan and University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, October 2024
• [5] ‘Growth Optimization of Fe-based Epitaxial Tellurides Using Hybrid PLD’, Symposium "Understanding Iron & Friends", Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2024
• [6] ‘Room-temperature Ferromagnetic Chromium Telluride Thin Films’, International Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Physics 2024, at Farook College, Kozhikkode, India; February 2024
• [7] ‘Versatile double perovskites: From Spintronics to catalysis’, Workshop on Recent Advances in Thin Film Research, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, November 2023
• [8] ‘Deposition of Magnetic Chromium Telluride (Cr_xTe_y) thin films’, Young Research Leaders Group Workshop: Recent advances in non-equilibrium and magnetic phenomena, Mainz, Germany; July 2023
• [9] ‘Complex Thin Film Systems by Advanced Epitaxy’, Solid State Day in Southern Lower Saxony, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, June 2023
• [10] ‘Transparent conducting SrNbO₃ grown by combined pulsed laser deposition and oxide molecular beam epitaxy’; Recent Advances in the Physics of Materials (RAPM-2021), National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Kozhikkode, India (Online); December 2021
• [11] ‘Epitaxial growth of functional oxide thin films’; International Conclave on Contemporary Physics: the new Paradigm Shift (ICCPPS), Rajdhani College, New Delhi, India (Online); August 2020
• [12] ‘A recipe to study the magnetism of perovskite oxides’; ‘International Webinar on Frontiers in Experimental Physics (IWFEP-2020)’, Farook College, Kozhikkode, India (Online); August 2020

Contributed Talks (Selected)

• [1] ‘Effect of valence electrons on the core level x-ray photoelectron spectra of 4d transition-metal oxide thin films’, 23rd American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ACCGE-23), Tucson, USA; August 2023.
• [2] ‘Interplay between the two magnetic phases of La₂NiMnO₆ and their impact on the oxygen evolution reaction’, Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS), Warsaw,Poland; July, 2022.
• [3] ‘Effect of stoichiometry on the optical and electronic properties of transparent conducting SrNbO₃ grown by oxide molecular beam epitaxy’, International Workshop on Oxide Electronics (iWOE27), Genoa, Italy; October 2021.
• [4] ‘Large positive and negative magnetodielectric coupling in Fe half-doped LaMnO₃’ J P Palakkal, et al.; ‘Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS)’, Mainz, Germany; September 2018.

Delegation

• [1] Visited and presented the research activities at (i) Nanjing University, Nanjing, (ii) University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, and (iii) Anhui University,Hefei, as part of a delegation from the University of Göttingen to China, October 2025.
• [2] Visited National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, in February 2025 as part of a delegation from the University of Göttingen and presented the research activities.

Other Talks

• [1] The Goeppert-Mayer Talk in July 2023 at the University of Göttingen discussed career challenges and prospects for women in physics.
• [2] Interactive talk with the postdocs of RMU-wide universities about the ‘successful application of research grants’ during the event ‘Postdoc Career Weeks of TU Darmstadt’ in May 2021 and April 2022.

Organization and Chairing

• [1] Chairedthe session ‘Oxide Surfaces’, at the 38th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-38), Braga, Portugal, August 2025
• [2] Chaired a session and organized the symposium ‘Emerging Materials for Renewable Energy Conversion’ as part of the German Physical Society (DPG) Spring Meeting in Berlin, March 2024

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