Brief Biography

Dr. Ram Janay Choudhary

Scientist, UGC- DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore

(since February 2006). Lab in charge: PLD, SQUID-VSM and

AIPES beam line at Indus-1 synchrotron source at RRCAT.

Academic Qualification:

• Ph.D.: University of Pune, Pune, India (March 2005), in joint collaboration with University of Maryland, College Park, USA and Inter University Accelerator Center, New Delhi.

• Masters in Physics from Allahabad University (First Class).

• Qualified : CSIR-NET (Physics) for LS (Dec. 1999) & JRF (June 2000)

Positions held:

• Faculty Research Assistant at Centre for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA (Apr. 2002 – Oct. 2003)

• Embark Fellow, Physics Department, Trinity College, Dublin-2, Ireland (Apr. 2005 to Jan. 2006).

Number of Research Papers Published: 296

Research Guidance:

No. of Ph.D Students Guided : 5 (Awarded ) + 8 (Running)

Awards:

• DAE Young Scientist Award-2013

• DAE Group achievement award-2017: Design, development, installation and commissioning of a new Infrared beam line at Indus-1 and Utilisation of 15 bending magnet based beam lines on Indus-1 and Indus-2.

Book Chapters:

• Perovskite based Colossal Magneto-resistance Materials and Their Irradiation Studies: A Review. Ravi Kumar, R. J. Choudhary, and S. I. Patil, 535, (2007) in “Radiation Effects in Solids” by Springer Publications edited by K. E. Sickafus et al.

• Resonant Photoemission studies of functional materials using Indus synchrotron radiation sources at RRCAT, Indore. R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase Physics News, Bulletin of the Indian Physics Association 48 55 Jan-Jul. 2018.

• Resonant Photoemission Studies of Functional Magnetic Oxides using Angle Integrated Photoemission Beamline at Indus 1 Synchrotron Radiation Source. R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase. Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Alliged Scientists (IANCAS) Bulletin XIV, No 1, December 2017