Dr. Goutam Kr. Chandra has joined the Department of Physics, NIT Calicut in June 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from IIT Kharagpur. He was a recipient of the Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (UGC-DSKPDF) from UGC, India. His research is mainly focused on the Raman Spectroscopy and its various applications in the field of biological science, material science, sensor & detection, etc.