Swagata Acharya

Swagata Acharya is a Researcher III in Computational Science and Materials Science at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He joined NREL in October 2022 and focuses on collective excitations in strongly correlated materials, including excitons, magnons, and bosons in superconductivity.

• Education: PhD and Master’s in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Bachelor’s from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, University of Calcutta
• Professional Experience: Postdoctoral Fellow at Radboud University (2020–2022) and King’s College London (2017–2020)

His research centers on using disorder and defects to tune fermionic/bosonic properties for next-generation optoelectronic, spintronic, and photonic devices. He develops many-body methodologies to bridge gaps between chemists, solid-state physicists, and material scientists. Key subfields include unconventional superconductivity, excitonic interactions, and quantum chemical-solid state integration.

Recent publications in Science, Nature Materials, and npj Computational Materials highlight his work on plasmonics, antiferromagnetic 2D materials, and lattice fluctuations in semiconductors. Trends show interdisciplinary focus on nanoscale physics, quantum interactions, and computational modeling.