Scientist

Education & Employment


Deutsche Electron Synchroton

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Hamburg, Germany, 2019 - present

Columbia University

Graduate Research Assistant

New York, NY, 2013 - 2019

Columbia University

masters research assistant in Applied Physics

New York, NY, 2013 - 2019
  • Advisor: Simon Billinge

Wake Forest University

BS in Physics

Winston-Salem, NC, 2008 - 2012

Publications

  1. Hongyao Xie, Emil S. Bozin, Zhi Li, Milinda Abeykoon, Soham Banerjee, James P. Male, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Christopher Wolverton, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. "Hidden Local Symmetry Breaking in Silver Diamondoid Compounds is Root Cause of Ultralow Thermal Conductivity". Advanced Materials . Jun 2022 download doi
  2. Hongyao Xie, Emil S. Bozin, Zhi Li, Milinda Abeykoon, Soham Banerjee, James P. Male, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Christopher Wolverton, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. "Hidden Local Symmetry Breaking in Silver Diamondoid Compounds is Root Cause of Ultralow Thermal Conductivity". Advanced Materials . Apr 2022 download doi
  3. Ellie Bennett, Matthew W. Greenberg, Abraham J. Jordan, Leslie S. Hamachi, Soham Banerjee, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Jonathan S. Owen. "Size dependent optical properties and structure of ZnS nanocrystals prepared from a library of thioureas". Chem. Mater. . 34 p. 706–717 Jan 2022 download doi
  4. Yanan Hao, Zunpeng Feng, Soham Banerjee, Xiaohui Wang, Simon J. L. Billinge, Jiesu Wang, Kuijuan Jin, Ke Bi, and Longtu Li. "Ferroelectric State and Polarization Switching Behaviour of Ultrafine {BaTiO$_3$} Nanoparticles with Large-Scale Size Uniformity". J. Mater. Chem. C . 9 p. 5267-5276 Mar 2021 download doi
  5. Yue Cao, Tadesse Assefa, Soham Banerjee, Andrew Wieteska, Dennis Wang, Abhay Pasupathy, Xiao Tong, Yu Liu, Wenjian Lu, Yu-Ping Sun, Yan He, Xiaojing Huang, Hanfei Yan, Yong S. Chu, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Ian K. Robinson. "Complete Strain Mapping of Nanosheets of Transition Metal Chalcogenides". ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. . 12 p. 43173-43179 Aug 2020 download doi
  6. Tadesse A. Assefa, Yue Cao, Soham Banerjee, Sungwon Kim, Dongjin Kim, Heemin Lee, Sunam Kim, Jae Hyuk Lee, Sang-Youn Park, Intae Eom, Jaeku Park, Daewoog Nam, Sangsoo Kim, Sae Hwan Chun, Hyojung Hyun, Kyung Sook Kim, Pavol Juhas, Emil S. Bozin, Ming Lu, Changyong Song, Hyunjung Kim, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Ian K. Robinson. "Melt-front Dynamics in Polycrystalline Gold Thin Films". Science Adv. . 6 p. eaax2445 Jan 2020 download doi
  7. Banerjee, Soham, Liu, Chia-Hao, Jensen, Kirsten M. O., Juh\'{a}s, Pavol, Lee, Jennifer D., Ackerson, Christopher J., Murray, Christopher B., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Cluster-mining: An approach for determining core structures of metallic nanoparticles from atomic pair distribution function data". Acta Crystallogr. A . 76 p. 24-31 Jan 2020 download doi
  8. Soham Banerjee. "Improved modeling of nanocrystals from atomic pair distribution function data". . Oct 2019
  9. Banerjee, Soham, Zangiabadi, Amirali, Mahdavi-Shakib, Akbar, Husremovic, Samra, Frederick, Brian G., Barmak, Katayun, Austin, Rachel Narehood, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Quantitative structural characterization of catalytically active {TiO$_2$} nanoparticles". ACS Appl. Nano Mater. . 2 p. 6268-6276 Sep 2019 download doi
  10. Gu, Ran, Banerjee, Soham, Du, Qiang, and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Algorithm for distance list extraction from pair distribution functions". Acta Crystallogr. A . 75 p. 658-668 Aug 2019 download doi
  11. Rohani, Parham, Banerjee, Soham, Ashrafi-Asl, Souroush, Malekzadeh, Mohammad, Shahbazian-Yassar, Reza, Billinge, Simon J. L., and Swihart, Mark T.. "Synthesis and properties of boron-hyperdoped silicon nanoparticles". Adv. Funct. Mater. . p. 1807788 Jan 2019 download doi
  12. Guguchia, Z., Kerelsky, A., Edelberg, D., Banerjee, S., Rohr, F. von, Scullion, D., Augustin, M., Scully, M., Shermadini, Z., Luetkens, H., Shengelaya, A., Baines, C., Morenzoni, E., Amato, A., Hone, J. C., Khasanov, R., Billinge, S. J. L., Santos, E., Pasupathy, A. N., and Uemura, Y. J.. "Magnetism in Semiconducting Molybdenum Dichalcogenides". Science Advances . 4 p. eaat3672 Dec 2018 download doi
  13. Yu, Runze, Banerjee, Soham, Lei, H. C., Sinclair, Ryan, Abeykoon, Milinda, Zhou, H. D., Petrovic, Cedomir, Guguchia, Zurab, and Bozin, Emil. "Absence of local fluctuating dimers in superconducting {Ir$_{1-x}$(Pt,Rh)$_{x}$Te$_{2}$}". Phys. Rev. B . 97 p. 174515 (2018) download doi
  14. Yu, Runze, Banerjee, Soham, Lei, H. C., Abeykoon, Milinda, Petrovic, Cedomir, Guguchia, Zurab, and Bozin, Emil. "Phase separation at the dimer-superconductor transition in {Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_{x}$Te$_{2}$}". Phys. Rev. B . 98 p. 134506 (2018) download doi
  15. Banerjee, Soham, Liu, Chia-Hao, Lee, Jennifer D., Kovyakh, Anton, Grasmik, Viktoria, Prymak, Oleg, Koenigsmann, Christopher, Liu, Haiqing, Wang, Lei, Abeykoon, A. M. Milinda, Wong, Stanislaus S., Epple, Matthias, Murray, Christopher B., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Improved models for metallic nanoparticle cores from atomic pair distribution function ({PDF}) analysis". J. Phys. Chem. C . 122 p. 29498-29506 Nov 2018 download doi
  16. Rijckaert, Hannes, Roo, Jonathan De, Zele, Matthias Van, Banerjee, Soham, Huhtinen, Hannu, Paturi, Petriina, Bennewitz, Jan, Billinge, Simon J. L., Bäcker, Michael, Buysser, Klaartje De, and Driessche, Isabel Van. "Pair distribution function analysis of {ZrO$_2$} Nanocrystals and insights in the formation of {ZrO$_2$-YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$} nanocomposites". MDPI-Materials . 11 p. 1066 Jun 2018 download doi
  17. Guguchia, Z., Rohr, F. von, Shermadini, Z., Lee, A. T., Banerjee, S., Wieteska, A. R., Marianetti, C. A., Frandsen, B. A., Luetkens, H., Gong, Z., Cheung, S. C., Baines, C., Shengelaya, A., Taniashvili, G., Pasupathy, A. N., Morenzoni, E., Billinge, S. J. L., Amato, A., Cava, R. J., Khasanov, R., and Uemura, Y. J.. "Signatures of the topological {s$^{+-}$} superconducting order parameter in the type-II Weyl semimetal {T$_d$-MoTe$_2$}". Nat. Commun. . 8 p. 1082 Jan 2017 download doi
  18. Frandsen, Benjamin A., Gong, Zizhou, Terban, Maxwell W., Banerjee, Soham, Chen, Bijuan, Jin, Changqing, Feygenson, Mikhail, Uemura, Yasutomo J., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Local atomic and magnetic structure of dilute magnetic semiconductor {(Ba,K)(Zn,Mn)$_2$As$_2$}". Phys. Rev. B . 94 p. 094102 Sep 2016 download doi

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Programming Languages

  • Proficient: Python