Maya Narayanan Nair

Dr. Maya Narayanan Nair is a Research Assistant Professor at the Nanoscience Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), City University of New York (CUNY). Previously, she held fellowships including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellowship at KU Leuven, Belgium, and a DST National Fellowship in India. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Haute Alsace, France, studying graphene functionalization via metal intercalation. Her research focuses on 2D materials like graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), investigating their electronic properties through intercalation, metal deposition, and heterostructure engineering. Key techniques include XPS, ARPES, and synchrotron-based spectroscopies.

Her work spans bandgap engineering in graphene, chemical doping of MoS₂, and dilute magnetism in 2D materials. Recent studies address Fe-doped WSe₂, water-responsive peptide nanofibers, and graphene functionalization via enzymatic methods. Awards include the DST National Fellowship and Marie Curie Fellowship. She contributes to facilities like the Nanofabrication and Surface Science labs at ASRC, advancing nano- and opto-electronic device applications.