Semonti Bhattacharyya
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. S. Bhattacharyya
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5913
- bhattacharyya@physics.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3387-0531

Semonti’s research interest focuses on quantum transport measurements in quantum materials such as graphene, van der Waals heterostructures, and topological insulators.
More information about Semonti Bhattacharyya
Nieuws
Dr. Semonti Bhattacharyya joined the Leiden Institute of Physics in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor. In 2016, she completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (India). After a short postdoc at IISc, she moved to Monash University, Melbourne (Australia) to work as a postdoc in 2017. In 2019, she was awarded a “Women in FLEET fellowship” from the ARC centre of excellence for future low energy electronics technology (FLEET).
As an experimental physicist Semonti’s research interest focuses on quantum transport measurements in quantum materials such as graphene, van der Waals heterostructures, and topological insulators. Her research group at Leiden will investigate the fabrication techniques of novel van der Waals heterostructures, and electrical transport measurements in them as a function of twist angle and pressure.
Link to group page Bhattacharyya Lab.
Assistant Professor
- Science
- Leiden Instituut Onderzoek Natuurkunde
- LION - Quantum Matter & Optics
- Haas T. de, Smit R., Tebyani A., Bhattacharyya S., Watanabe K., Taniguchi T., Buda F. & Orrit M.A.G.J. (2025), Charge Transfer-Induced Weakening of Vibronic Coupling for Single Terrylene Molecules Adsorbed onto Hexagonal Boron Nitride, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 16(1): 349-356.
- Tirion S., Cheng Z., Pen C.G.A, Galli F., Hesselberth M. & Bhattahcaryya S. (2024), A technical note on a compact inert-gas suitcase for optical measurements of air-sensitive 2d materials, Zenodo : .
- Pradeepkumar A., Cheng H.H., Liu K.Y., Gebert M., Bhattacharyya S., Fuhrer M.S. & Iacopo F. (2023), Low-leakage epitaxial graphene field-effect transistors on cubic silicon carbide on silicon, Journal of Applied Physics 133(17): 174503 .
- Nguyen T.P., Klymenko M., Beane G. Oldfield M., Xing K., Gebert M., Bhattacharyya S., Fuhrer M.S., Cole J.H. & Schiffrin A. (2023), Non-Drude THz conductivity of graphene due to structural distortions. arXiv. [working paper].
- Gebert M., Bhattacharyya S., Bounds C.C., Syed N., Daeneke T. & Fuhrer M.S. (2023), Passivating graphene and suppressing interfacial phonon scattering with mechanically transferred large-area Ga2O3, Nano Letters 23(1): 363-370.