Work Experience
6. Assistant Professor (January 2016 till present)
Department of Physics,
Siddaganga Institute of Technology,
BH Road, Tumkur 572103, Karnataka, INDIA
Research Topic: Materials for Energy : Battery materials, Magnetocaloric materials, Neutron and Synchrotron diffraction and Photocatalytic materials
Teaching: Crystal structure, Quantum Mechanics, Photonics, Elastic property of Materials, semiconductors
Websites: https://sites.google.com/sit.ac.in/drmadhuchennabasappa/home
5. Application Scientist X-ray Diffraction, India (May 2015 till December 2015)
PANalytical, Spectris Technologies Private Limited.,
JMD Megapolis, Unit No P701-705, 7th floor,
Sohna Road, Sector -48, GURGAON-122 018,
Haryana, INDIA,
Tel.: +91 124 4689547, Fax.: 1244689522
Nature of Work: Providing scientific assistance, advanced solutions specific to their field and training, both on site and online, to the new user of the powder x-ray diffraction.
Places visited on site:
Institutions : IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IISc Bangalore, IISER Bhopal, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, JNU New Delhi, IOCL Faridabad, TIFR Bombay, IMMT Bhubaneshwar, PDPU Gandhinagar, MS University Baroda, etc
Companies : Aditya cements Shambhupura, Ramco cements AndraPradesh, My Home cements AndraPradesh, JSW steel plant Hospet, Balco aluminium industry, V V Titanium Tuticorin, Laurus labs Hyderabad, Natco Pharma Hyderabad, Saint Gobain Chennai, etc
4. Post Doctoral Researcher (April 2014 till December 2014)
Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux(ICMCB), CNRS,
87 ave du Dr A Schweitzer,
Pessac – 33600, FRANCE.
Research Topic: Microwave assisted hydrothermal synthesis of titanium hydroxy fluorides and their derivatives
Supervisor: Dr. Alain DEMOURGUES
3. Doctoral Student (December 2010 till December 2013)
Title of Thesis: “Ageing, microstructure and magneto-structural relations in room temperature magnetocaloric materials”
Original title in French: "Etude du viellissement de matériaux magnétocaloriques"
Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux(ICMCB), CNRS,
87 ave du Dr A Schweitzer, Université de Bordeaux 1,
Pessac – 33600, FRANCE.
Research Topic: Magnetocaloric materials for room temperature applications
Supervisors: Dr. Oliver TOULEMONDE, Dr. Bernard CHEVALIER
2. Research Associate-1 (May 2009 –December 2010)
Advanced Batteries Laboratories,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University (CSU),
Fort Collins - 80523, Colorado, USA.
Research Topic: Cathode materials for Li-ion batteries, photocatalytic materials, photoluminiscence materials
Supervisor: Prof. V. Manivannan.
1. Research Assistant (November 2005 – April 2009)
Magnetism and Superconductivity Lab,
Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit,
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR),
Jakkur 560064, Bangalore, INDIA
Research Topic: Nano particles with unusual magnetic properties, superconductivity and thinfilms.
Supervisor: Prof. A. Sundaresan. http://www.jncasr.ac.in/sundaresan/