Gaurav joined the group in 2026 having previously worked as a post-doc with Françoise Remacle (Liege) on excited states dynamics. Before that, he completed his PhD in 2022 at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India under the supervision of Prof Ashwani K. Tiwari. He will be working on developing R-Matrix based methodologies for describing partial scattering cross-sections in photoelectron imaging experiments.