Dr. Ankita Gaur is working as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Physical Sciences at South Asian University, Delhi. Prior to SAU, she worked as a Ramanujan Fellow in the School of Energy Science and Engineering at IIT Guwahati (2019–2024), with the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Govt. of India, Delhi.

Dr. Gaur works in multidisciplinary approaches in the field of solar photovoltaic technologies. Her recent work is on the synthesis and development of nano phosphors for solar spectrum modification and photonics applications. She has successfully completed a project sponsored by SERB-DST as a Principal Investigator. She has guided two Ph.D., two M.Tech., and one Master of Science by Research students at IIT Guwahati.

She is a recipient of a gold medal in her Master’s in Physics. She was awarded the INSPIRE Fellowship in 2010 from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, and received her Ph.D. degree in 2014 from the Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi. Her thesis work was on fundamental and applied research in organic solar cell material synthesis, deposition, device fabrication, and characterization. She received the Shrimati Vijaya-Usha Sodha Award for best research publications from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

After her Ph.D., she worked in the Department of Physics at IIT Madras, Chennai. Thereafter, she worked as a Research Scientist at CETHIL-UMR CNRS 5008, National Institute of Applied Science (INSA), Lyon, France (2015–2016). Further, she worked as a Research Scientist in “LOCIE" UMR CNRS 5271, USMB and INES, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France (2016–2018). During her postdoc tenure, she worked on thermal management strategies for heat dissipation of photovoltaic modules. She has produced several research and conference publications in journals of international repute.