Graduate student in Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024-current)

Graduate student in Chemistry, Rice University (2020-2023)

M.S. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India (2020)

B.S. in Chemistry, Miranda House College, University of Delhi, India (2018)

Research Interests

My research focuses on the interaction of chiral plasmonic nanostructures with different polarizations (linear/circular/trochoidal) of light and leveraging these interactions for the detection of biomolecules. 

Publications

J. Elkins, S. A. Iyengar, O. Verma, H. Shekhar, K. Khodabandehloo, J. Zhou, T. Pieshkov, J. Murukeshan, P. Nordlander, A. Krishnamoorthy, S. Link, R. Vajtai, A. Puthirath, and P. M. Ajayan, Spatially Controlled Growth of Ultrathin MoO2 Polymorphs by Physical Vapor Deposition, Nano Lett., 25, 2283−2289 (2025).
A. Chakraborty, O. Verma, G. N. Naidu, M. Dass, Z. Jia, C. F. Landes, A. Alabastri, P. Nordlander, T. Liedl, and S. Link, The Influence of the Supporting Substrate on Single-Particle Circular Differential Scattering of DNA Assembled Nanorod Dimers, Adv. Opt. Mater., 2403002 (2025).
S. Adhikari,  N. Gross,  K. S. Wilson,  O. Verma,  Z. Jia,  C. F. Landes,  S. T. Roberts, S. Link, On-Chip Lock-In Detection for Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Single Particles, J. Phys. Chem. C, 128, 21, 8708–8715 (2024).
L. A. McCarthy, O. Verma, G. N. Naidu, L. Bursi, A. Alabastri, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Chiral Plasmonic Pinwheels Exhibit Orientation-Independent Linear Differential Scattering under Asymmetric Illumination, Chem. Biomed. Imaging, 1, 1, 30-39 (2023).