Ambrish Kumar Srivastava

Ambrish Kumar Srivastava is Assistant Professor of Physics at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University in Gorakhpur, India. He received Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, India. Having obtained his academic degrees from University of Lucknow, he got National Postdoctoral Fellowship from SERB, DST, India. Dr. Srivastava has authored over 150 scientific publications including 1 authored book and 1 edited book. His works have been widely cited with an h-index of 22. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Physics and serves the editorial board of Current Chinese Science and Journal of Computational Methods in Molecular Design. He has reviewed more than 40 research publications and edited 10 publications. One of his papers has been featured on the cover page of International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Wiley). His works have also been referenced in Wikipedia. He is members of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Chemical Society (ACS), Indian Chemical Society, and Materials Research Society of India. His current research interests include Computational Materials Science, Atomic Clusters and Superatoms, Biophysics. In addition, he is fond of Hindi literature and created several books on poetries and stories, can be found here.

In my opinion, Physics is all about learning and understanding the basic principles of phenomenon of nature. The nature, itself, talks much about these phenomena but in a very complicated manner. This is why we require some laws that are needed to understand these phenomena. These laws are well documented in texts and accessible over internet but they appear a bit abstract in the absence of a teacher or an instructor. The role of teacher is, thus, to make the subject vital and interesting. It becomes a core responsibility of a teacher to make the students believe that the true knowledge is not bound in books but beyond it. I remember a nice quote from William Arthur Ward, “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." As a teacher, I try to fulfil above mentioned responsibilities on my whole capacity. I am keen in teaching/learning any branch of physics. In my view, teaching is just another aspect of learning. My special interest is to learn/teach quantum physics. The current courses of teachings are:

PHY-507 (Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics)

PHY-515 (Quantum Mechanics-II)

PHY-517 (Biophysics-I)

B.Sc./M.Sc. (General) & M.Sc. (Biophysics) Laboratories

NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award- 2022: The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Prayagraj (The oldest science academy of India)

Associate Editor: Frontiers in Physics (Section: Physical Chemical and Chemical Physics)

Editorial Board: Current Chinese Science and Journal of Computational Methods in Molecular Design

Reviewer: Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Liquids, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Chemical Communication, Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling, Journal of Cluster Science, New Journal of Chemistry, Nanoscale, Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry, ChemPhysChem, Materials Chemistry & Physics, Main Group Chemistry, etc

UGC Start up Grant: University Grants Commission in 2019

Life Member: The Indian Science Congress Association, The Indian Chemical Society, Materials Research Society of India, International Association of Physical Chemists

Affiliate Member: Royal Society of Chemistry

Society Affiliate: American Chemical Society

National Post Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF): Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2017

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF): Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2011

July 2018-Continued: Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, D D U Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 273009, Uttar Pradesh, India

September 2017- June 2018: Assistant Professor at P.G. Department of Physics, Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara, 802301, Bihar, India

May - August 2017: National Post Doctoral Fellow (NPDF) at Department of Physics, D D U Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 273009, Uttar Pradesh, India

• "Superhalogens in Energy Storage Materials" in One Day National Webinar on Energy Crisis: Long Term Solutions jointly organized by S.S. College, Shahjahanpur & L.B.S. Degree College, Gonda (8 Nov. 2020)

• "In Silico Methods of Drug Design for COVID-19" in National E-Conference on Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Technology organized by Amiruddaula Islamia Degree College, Lucknow (30 & 31 May 2020)

• "In Silico Approaches to Combat COVID-19" in Leveraging Science and Technology to Combat COVID-19 organized by D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur (23 & 24 May 2020)

• "Superhalogens: The Clusters with High Electron Affinity" in National Conference on Advances in Materials Science organized by Marwar Bussiness School, Gorakhpur (21 & 22 Feb. 2019)

• "Superahalogens: A Special Class of Superatoms" in National Conference on Soft Matter organized by D.D. U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur (27 & 28 March 2018)

Member of Board of Studies (BoS) of Department of Physics in D. D. U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur in 2022-2023

Organizing Secretary of International Conference on Futuristic Materials (ICFM-20) during 18-20 December 2020

Organizing Secretary of Online Workshop on Computer Aided Drug Design using BIOVIA Discovery Studio during 13-14 August 2020

Member of NAAC Steering Committee in D. D. U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur

Evaluator in 27th State Level National Children Science Congress- 2019 organized by Council of Science & Technology, Uttar Pradesh

Assistant Proctor in D. D. U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur from July 2018 to September 2019

Presiding Officer in Students Union Election- 2018 (Phase I & II) at V. K. S. University, Ara