Biography
Dr. Thakur earned his PhD degree in solid state chemistry from IIT Delhi in 2016 (advisor Prof. Ashok K. Ganguli). He was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden (with Martin Jansen and Claudia Felser) between 2016 and 2020. He was then a postdoctoral research associate at the Technical University of Dresden (with Michael Ruck, 2021-2023). In Jan 2024 he joined as an Assistant Professor at the department of Chemical Science, IISER Berhampur. His current research interests primarily revolve around solid state synthesis of magnetically frustrated, high temperature magnetic and superconducting materials. He has developed an interest in quantum materials based on metal chalcogenides and oxides, particularly containing Ru, Os and Ir. He is also interested in crystal growth of new inorganic solids using various growth techniques and their structural characterization using PXRD and SCXRD techniques.
Key Publications
Unconventional superconductivity at mesoscopic point contacts on the 3D Dirac semimetal Cd3As2, L Aggarwal, A Gaurav, G S Thakur, Z Haque, AK Ganguli, G Sheet, Nature materials 15 (2016), 32-37: IF 47.6.
Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in Ni-Substituted Magnetic Weyl Semimetal Co3Sn2S2 G S Thakur, P Vir, SN Guin, C Shekhar, R Weihrich, Y Sun, N Kumar, C. Felser, Chemistry of Materials 32 (2020), 1612-1617: IF 10.5.
Idiosyncratic Ag7Pt2O7: An Electron Imprecise yet Diamagnetic Small Band Gap Oxide GS Thakur, R Dinnebier, TC Hansen, W Assenmacher, C Felser, M. Jansen, Angewandte Chemie 132 (2020), 20082-20085: IF 16.6.
Na9Bi5Os3O24: A Diamagnetic Oxide Featuring a Pronouncedly Jahn–Teller‐Compressed Octahedral Coordination of Osmium(VI) Gohil S Thakur, Hans Reuter, Alexey V Ushakov, Gianpiero Gallo, Jürgen Nuss, Robert E Dinnebier, Sergey V Streltsov, Daniel I Khomskii, Martin Jansen, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 (2021), 16500-16505: IF 16.6.
Buckled Honeycomb Lattice Compound Sr3CaOs2O9 Exhibiting Antiferromagnetism above Room Temperature, GS Thakur, TC Hansen, W Schnelle, S Guo, O Janson, J Van Den Brink, Claudia Felser, Martin Jansen, Chemistry of Materials 34 (2022), 4741-4750: IF 10.6.