Aniket Patra was born in Medinipur, West Bengal, India. He pursued his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology, Kolkata, in 2014 and M.Tech. degree in Nano Science and technology from Jadavpur University, in 2017. 

In his master thesis, Aniket, worked with piezoelectric nano crystals for application in a nanogenerator (Mechanical to electrical energy conversion). Due to his keen interest in solid-state physics on light-matter interaction, he had completed some projects on the photocatalytic activity of metal oxide semiconductor nanoparticles.

In 2019, he joined Nanolase group at the Universitá della Calabria, to pursue his Ph.D. degree.

His current research is focused on enhanced light-matter interaction using epsilon near zero modes and also coupling between photon and exciton in extremely anisotropic metastructures.

His Ph.D project is focused on “Plasmon-Exciton Interaction in Extremely Anisotropic Metastructures”.