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Invited Talk/Lectures

• Invited Lecture on Materials and Interface Engineering Strategies for Emerging Kesterite Thin Film Solar Cells in Advances in Materials and Storage Technologies for Energy and Environment (AMSEE 2026), January 30, 2026, organized by the Department of Physics, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT-AP University, Vellore, India.

• Invited Talk on From Materials to Prototype: Strategies for Next-Generation Thin Film Solar Cells, 20 May 2023, University of Oulu, Finland. 

R&D Projects undertaken as Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigator/Member:

• Thermal Stability of Nanocrystalline Cu-Nb Binary Alloy Thin Films: Phase Separation, Microstructure, Residual Stress and Crystallographic Texture

Funding Agency:  Department of Science & Technology (DST), India

Duration: April 2024 ~ Mar 2027 (Ongoing)

Budget: 45.0 Lakhs

Role: Member

• Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase

Funding Agency:  Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India

Duration: Aug 2022 ~ Aug 2027 (Ongoing)

Budget: 25.75 Lakhs

Role: Member

• Centre for Excellence in Wear and Corrosion Resistant Coatings Technology

Funding Agency:  Department of Science & Technology (DST), India

Duration: Sept 2023 ~ Sept 2026 (Ongoing)

Budget: 937 lakhs

Role: Member

• Development of Rare-Earth Free Anisotropic α-Fe16N2 hard Magnetic Material

Funding Agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India

Duration: April 2024 ~ Mar 2026 (Completed)

Budget: 67.0 Lakhs

Role: Member

• Deposition and Characterization of Antimony Chalcogenide-based Light Absorbers Coatings for Photovoltaic Applications

Funding Agency: CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jumshedpur

Duration: Nov 2023 ~ Mar 2025 (Completed)

Budget: 2.5 lakhs

Role: Principal Investigator

Engagement 

• Editorial Board Member in Advances in Materials   

• Guest Editor: Materials-MDPI

• Guest Editor: Crystals-MDPI

• Guest Editor: Frontiers in Electronics 

• Reviewer in Following Journals: Ionics; Journal of Fluorescence; Journal of Nanomaterials; Journal of Power Sources; ACS Applied Electronic Materials; Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical; Cogent Engineering (Taylor & Francis); Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids; Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics; Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials; Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications; Materials Chemistry and Physics