Background: Partha obtained his Ph.D in physical chemistry from the Department of Chemistry of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2017. He gained postdoctoral​ experience with Prof Sanford Ruhman at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During his postdoctorate, He used sub-10 femtosecond pulses to investigate molecular photochemistry and photophysics using transient absorption and impulsive Raman spectroscopy.

Partha joined the ULTRA team in March 2023 to support user experiments and gain experience with ULTRA's ​experimental techniques.