Prof. Pavan Nukala has joined the Indian Institute of Science/Center for nanoscience and engineering in Aug 2020. He is a materials scientist/engineer by training and works in the broad fields of oxides (correlated oxides, ferroelectric and piezoelectric oxides), phase-change memories (chalcogenides) for electronic applications (neuromorphic computation, in particular) and topological insulators. He has expertise in in situ electron microscopy, spectroscopy (EELS) and x-ray diffraction techniques, especially on real working devices. He has been working in the field of hafnia-based ferroelectrics since 2015, first as a Postdoc at University of Groningen/Netherlands.