Ankur Pandya received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He has been with Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, since 2008. His current research interests include electrical, optical, magnetic, and bioelectronics properties of various nanostructures, and optical methods to characterize material properties.