Dr. Saikiran Khamgaonkar

Post Doc, Northwestern University
Kanatzidis Group, Perovskites (Solar)
E-Mail: saikiran.khamgaonkar@northwestern.edu
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B.Tech Metallurgical
and Materials Engineering
Visvesvaraya National
Institute of Technology (VNIT)
Nagpur, India (2020)

Ph.D. Chemistry (Nanotechnology)
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Canada (2026)

Profile

I joined the group in September 2026 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, co-advised by Prof. Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Prof. Edward H. Sargent. My current research focuses on the development of efficient and stable multijunction perovskite solar cells for space applications, with an emphasis on understanding and mitigating degradation under the extreme thermal and radiation environments encountered in space. During my PhD, I focused on the synthesis and development of novel nanomaterial electrocatalysts for water-splitting applications, as well as the development of perovskite-based photoelectrochemical cells for solar-to-fuel conversion.