Hema has her bachelor’s degree in materials science and engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai, and she is the gold medalist of her batch. Later she joined for her Masters and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on synthesising, developing, and fabricating functional nanomaterials and devices. She has expertise in utilizing electron microscopy tools to understand the atomic to microlevel functionalities and phase transformations in electronic materials.
(Quantitative) in situ electron microscopy
Functional nanomaterials and thin films
Atomic to device-scale functionality investigation
Phase transformation studies
Alloy preparation and design
2023 - Till date
Assistant Professor
2019-Institute postdoctoral fellowship by Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
2013-P. Chandrasekaran Memorial Endowment for the Best Outgoing Student with excellent academic performance in Material Science and Engineering by CEG - Anna University Chennai
2012-Offered “Student Innovative Idea” project award, funded by Centre for Technology Development and Transfer, CEG – Anna University Chennai
2012-Student Internship offer by Indian Institute of Technology Madras
2011-Student Internship offer by National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan