2026 — 2028
ANRF Project (Government of India)
Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India
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Research funding, awards, and fellowships.
A summary of grants, fellowships, and competitive research awards supporting Dr. Bahadur Sk and AURA Lab. Detailed records of funding entries are publicly available through ORCID.
Research Grants
Active and recent research programmes
2026
KL University Seed Research Grant (SRG)
KL University (Deemed to be University), Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Advancing High-Resolution Biomedical Imaging and Sensing Technology Using Advanced Organic Afterglow Materials.
2021 — 2022
C. V. Raman Fellowship
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Postdoctoral fellowship supporting long-lived organic emissive materials and OLED device research.
2019
Royal Society of Chemistry Grant
Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom
Intriguing case of excited-state intramolecular charge transfer in T- and V-shaped molecules with pyridoquinoxaline acceptor.
Fellowships
Postdoctoral & doctoral fellowships
Apr 2024 — Jan 2025
UEC Postdoctoral Fellowship
University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo — afterglow imaging and device-relevant photonics.
Jan 2021 — Mar 2022
C. V. Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru — long-lived organic emitters and OLED fabrication.
2014 — 2020
PhD Research Fellowship
IISER Bhopal — doctoral research on multichromophoric organic systems and long-lived emission.
Areas funded
Organic photonic materials, afterglow imaging, OLED emitter design, and computational materials chemistry.
Open for collaboration
The group welcomes co-investigator arrangements, joint grant submissions, and consortium-style projects in photophysics and device-facing organics.
Industry & translational interest
Researchers and partners interested in display materials, anti-counterfeiting, or imaging applications are invited to get in touch.