👨🎓Education :
👨🎓 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (2006)
Research Area: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Punjab University Chandigarh, Chandigarh, India
👨🎓 Master of Science (M. Sc.) in Physics
Spl: Electronics
C C S University, Meerut, India
👨🎓 Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) (1996)
Spl: Physical Sciences
C C S University, Meerut, India
🏆 Honors & Awards
ACADEMIC & ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES (SVNIT & OUTSIDE):
Member (departmental representative), Institute Central Library Committee, SVNIT-SURAT
Chairman & Examiner for M. Tech. & M. Sc. dissertations, SVNIT-SURAT
Member Secretary, Departmental Academic Advisory Committee (DAAC), SVNIT-SURAT
Coordinator, Time Table, Dept of Applied Physics, SVNIT-SURAT
Coordinator, Ph.D. Credit & RPS, Dept of Applied Physics, SVNIT-SURAT
UG In-charge (Physics) B. Tech. program, SVNIT-SURAT
Ph.D. Thesis (outside SVNIT) Examiner: CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhabnagar (No. 3)
M. Sc. (Physics) Practical External Examiner (Outside SVNIT): VNSGU, Surat
Warden, Gajjar Bhavan (Hostel 4) & Bhabha Bhawan, SVNIT, January 2013 - March, 2017
Invited/Expert talks: (Total 34)
Abroad: QFS-2010, USA; QFS-2011, France; ICTP-Italy, 2015, etc.
India: ICN:3I-17, IIT Roorkee; NCCP 2017, Assam Univ.; Central University, Jammu etc.
Editorial Responsibilities of Journals:
Editorial Board Member, Current Nanomaterials, Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers, USA.
Editorial Board Member, Nano Research & Applications, Publisher: Insight Medical Publ., USA.
Associate Editor, Int. J. Macro Nano Physics, Publisher: D. J. Publications, India.
Membership of Professional Organizations:
The Indian Science Congress Association (Life Member, Membership No. L14551)
Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) (Life Member, Membership No. 8299L4877)
Indian Physics Association (IPA) (Life Member, Membership No. SUR/LM/12579)
Reviewer of various Journals:
Comp. Mat. Sci. (Elsevier, ISSN: 0927-0256),
Chem. Phys. Lett. (Elsevier, ISSN: 0009-2614),
Ind. J.Phys. (Springer, ISSN: 0974-9845),
Nanoscale (Royal Soc. Chem., ISSN: 2040-3364),
J. Chem. Sci.(Springer, ISSN:0973-7103),
Spectrochimica Acta Part A (Elsevier, ISSN: 1386-1425),
J. Alloys Comp. (Elsevier, ISSN: 0925-8388),
J. Mol. Struct. (Elsevier, ISSN: 0022-2860),
Inorg. Chem.(Elsevier, ISSN: 0020-1669),
J. Cluster Sci. (Elsevier, ISSN: 1040-7278),
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B (World Scientific, ISSN: 1793-6578),
J. Mol. Model. (Springer, ISSN: 1610-2940) etc.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Teacher Associateship of IMSC-Chennai, (From, 2009-2012)
Young Scientist Award under FAST TRACT scheme 2013, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.
Acted as the Chairman and Examiner for M. Tech. & M. Sc. dissertations,and PhD at SVNIT, Surat.
Master Thesis (05) Examined (PU Chandigarh, Allahabad University, India).
Memories...
Presently, Assistant Professor in Physics at S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India.
Expert in MD Simulations, DFT calculations, Quantum Monte Carlo methods, Coulomb Drag Calculations.
Delivered more than 20 expert research/training talks in India and abroad.
15 years of research, and 13 years of teaching experience at the UG & PG level of Physics.
Supervised 4 Ph.D. candidates and 47 masters’ (M. Sc.) thesis, 4 other Ph.D.’s are in progress.
Implemented sponsored research projects from Govt. of India worth more than INR 30 Lakh.
Editor/Editorial Board Member of Current Nanomaterials (Bentham Science, USA), Nano Research & Applications (iMed Publ, USA) and Int. J. Macro Nano Physics (D. J. Publ, India)
Some latest and selected publications...
Coulomb drag study in graphene/GaAs bilayer system with the effect of local field correction and dielectric medium...[link]
Spin-polarized electron–electron quantum bilayers: Finite width effect...[link]
Electric field induced insulator to metal transition in a buckled GaAs monolayer...[link]
Investigations of Optical and Thermoelectric Response of GaBi Monolayer...[link]
Synthesis and Characterization of Indium Selenide Thin Films for Solar Cell Application...[link]
Phase diagram of a symmetric electron–hole bilayer system: a variational Monte Carlo study...[link]
Read more...
(i) Strongly correlated electronic materials, Topological nano-materials.
(ii) The quantum Monte Carlo study of ground-state properties of electron-hole bilayer system .
(iii) Investigation of electronic and physical properties of Gallium-based layered Systems under external stimuli
(iv) Coulomb Drag
(v) Atomic & Molecular Clusters and Functional Nano-materials.
Operating Systems:
LINUX, UNIX, DOS, WINDOWS, MAC
Programming Languages:
FORTRAN, C & C++, Python, Julia
Software and Packages:
GAUSSIAN, GAMESS-US, Quantum Espresso, VASP, ADF, Demon 2K, NRLMOL, SIESTA and TranSIESTA, MATLAB, GaussView, XCrysden, VESTA, p4v, CASINO-IV, LAMMPS, OVITO, VMDetc.
