Biography: Tummala Pinakapani obtained a Masters in Material Science and Nanotechnology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2019 where he carried out his master thesis on "Large Area Growth of monolayer MoS2 nanosheets using Chemical Vapor Deposition" under the supervision of  Dr. Alessio Lamperti(CNR-IMM) and Prof. Luca Giampaolo Nobili, in CNR-IMM Unit of Agrate Brianza. After he joined the Italian National Research Council laboratories in September 2019 as a Post-Graduate Fellow involved in the development of novel two-dimensional materials under European project grant. In 2020, Tummala started his Doctoral Research fellow position in 2D-Materials Group at CNR-IMM unit with collaboration in a joint International Ph.D. program in Science at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) and KU Leuven(Belgium). He then moved to KU Leuven in July 2022 - Febraury 2023 for his doctoral studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy to work in the field of Internal Photoemission spectroscopy (IPE) under Prof. Valeri Afanasiev, head of Semiconductor Physics Department, KU Leuven. His research activity focuses on the synthesis and electrical characterization of different transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). 

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From Nov. 2020 - International Joint Ph.D. Program in Science,

(CNR-IMM_KU Leuven_Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

Supervisors: Dr. Alessio Lamperti(CNR-IMM), Prof. Valeri Afanasiev(KUL), Prof. Gabriele Ferrini(UCSC) 

Department of physics and astronomy
KU.Leuven, Belgium
Department of Mathematics and Physics,
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia I-25121, Italy. 

2017 - 2019 - M.Sc. in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ITALY 
Thesis: Large area growth of Molybdenum disulfide(MoS₂) by Chemical Vapor Deposition(CVD).
Supervisors: Dr. Alessio Lamperti (CNR-IMM), Prof. Luca G Nobili (POLIMI)

2012-2016 - B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, INDIA