Chitraleema is currently focused on investigating the influence of applied strain on the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials using tools from optical spectroscopy and first-principles methods. She is a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Prineha Narang’s group at Harvard University with a joint appointment in Professor Dirk Englund’s group at MIT. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Nick Vamivakas at The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, New York