Dr. Panchapakesan Ganesh performs research in theoretical and computational material physics and chemistry using a range of methodologies. He has a broad research interest in several areas as listed below, with a particular emphasis on understanding the influence of defects and disorder on material functionality, for designing improved materials for energy storage & conversion, as well as quantum information science applications. Recently, he is also involved in understanding dynamical processes underlying defect-creation using electron-beams.

His work involves heavy computing to study the electronic structure and derived physical/chemical properties of novel materials using an ab initio approach involving quantum-mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical physics.