Speakers

Professor John William Sheffield

Purdue Polytechnic Institute

131 Knoy, 401 N. Grant Street

West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2021

Title of Talk: "Green Hydrogen: A Global Perspective of Technologies"

Dr. Sheffield, joined Purdue University in January 2015. He holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Sheffield has a broad base of experience in energy technologies. He has served as one of the founding associate directors at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (UNIDO-ICHET) during their first two years of operation in 2005-2006. He also served as the Associate Director of the National University Transportation Center at Missouri S&T. For more than forty years, he has served as an editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. In August 2014, he completed a two-year assignment as a principal consultant at DNV GL - Energy supporting the evaluation, measurement and verification of energy efficiency programs and the response to the U.S. DOE Uniform Methods Project Protocol review of compressed air systems. In August 2015, he completed a 7-week National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program as an industrial mentor for a potential startup company based on the manufacturing of bio-inspired bipolar plates for PEM fuel cells. On 1 March 2019, he became the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, having previously served as the Executive Vice President. He has also served as a part-time Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, China working in the summers with the School of Energy and Power Engineering on hydrogen energy technologies from 2019-2021 and teaching in the annual International Summer School offered by the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering.

More details: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-sheffield-75672010

Professor Jean-Louis BOBET

ICMCB – CNRS, University of Bordeaux,

UPR 9048, F-33600 Pessac, France

Title of Talk: "Hydrogen generation from waste Mg alloys / Light mobility"

Dr. BOBET has completed his PhD at the age of 25 years from University of Bordeaux France in the field of materials science. After a post doctoral position in Japan, he became Associate Professor in France and became full professor at the age of 37. He was the head of the chemistry department from 2014 to 2019. He has published more than 160 papers in reputed journals and is the co-inventor of 4 patents. He has been invited researcher at Université du Québec à Trois Rivières (Canada) and Universitad Federal do ABC (Brazil). He established collaborations with Japan, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, USA, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and Lebanon. His main research activity is on Hydrogen storage in metal hydrides (from the last 25 years) and production by hydrolysis of magnesium (from the last 7 years). He study the relationship between crystal structure and properties.

More details: https://www.icmcb-bordeaux.cnrs.fr/bobet-jean-louis/

Professor Ibrahim Dincer

Ontario Tech. University, Oshawa, Ontario

Title of Talk: "New Integrated Biomass Energy Systems for Multigeneration"

President, Hydrogen Technologies Association

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Energy Research

Editor-in-Chief, Energy Storage

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Exergy

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Global Warming

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Research, Innovation and Commercialisation

Special Issues Coordinating Editor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

More details: https://engineering.ontariotechu.ca/people/mme/ibrahim.dincer.php

Dr. Daniele Mirabile Gattia

Research scientist

Laboratory Chemical and physical technologies

ENEA Centro Ricerche Casaccia, Via Anguillarese, 301 00123 Santa Maria di Galeria RM, Italy

Dr. Gattia, PhD in Materials for Energy and Environment. His research activities at ENEAis mainly focused on the synthesis and characterization of materials, in particular on X-ray diffraction analysis and Electron microscopy. He is involved on activities, which considers the synthesis, in particular by mechanical alloying, and microstructural characterization of materials for sustainability, energy, nuclear and cultural heritage sectors. He has been working on hydrogen storage materials for many years, in particular on hydrides both at low and high temperature. Current research interests include materials for additive manufacturing, as metal alloys, and applications in energy sector. Project Manager of the “Frontier Materials for Energy applications” project, funded by Italian Ministry, mainly focused on thermo- and pyroelectric materials and microgenerators and on materials and components realized by additive manufacturing. He is author of many papers on peer reviewed international journals and co-inventor of 2 patents. Invited speaker to International Congresses. Reviewer for International Journals, European and Italian Institutions. Teacher in schools on Electron Microscopy. Member of SISM (Italian Society for Microscopical Sciences). Member of the scientific and organizing committee of conference on material analysis.

More details: https://materiali.sostenibilita.enea.it/en/user/617

Prof. Mohammed Abdul Basith

Department of Physics of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka

Title of Talk: "Perovskite Nanomaterials for Efficient Photodegradation and Solar H2 Evolution"

Dr. Basith is serving as a Professor in the Department of Physics of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka. Dr. Basith achieved PhD degree from the Materials and Condensed Matter Physics group, University of Glasgow, UK in 2011. His research interests include transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterization of patterned ferromagnetic nanostructures by lithographic techniques. At present in BUET, Dr. Basith is working mainly on preparation and characterization of multifunctional nanomaterials for energy-related and spintronic applications. He has published more than 40 research papers in different prestigious journals like Nanoscale, Physical Review Applied, Nature Scientific Reports, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, Nanotechnology, RSC Advances, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy etc. He is the reviewer of a number of reputed journals published from American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry etc. For the last few years, he has received research grants from different international and national organizations worth 500 thousand USD. In BUET, he has established Nanotechnology Research Laboratory for the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials. Since its inception in April 2014, he has been developing advanced facilities in this laboratory under different research projects from home and abroad.

More details: https://phy.buet.ac.bd/faculty_profile/17/dr-mohammed-abdul-basith

Dr. S. Ramaprabhu

Professor (Emeritus),

Alternative Energy and Nanotechnology Laboratory (AENL), Nano Functional Materials Technology Centre (NFMTC), Department of Physics,

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

600 036, INDIA

Title of Talk: "Advanced Nanomaterials for energy applications"

Awards

Alaxander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvH) Fellow, Germany

DAAD Fellow, Germany

Visiting Fellow to Germany by BMBF & DFG German Science Foundations

Fellow/Professional Memberships

Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (NASI)

Fellow of Royal Chemical Society (FRSC)

Fellow of Academy of sciences Chennai (FASCh)

Chair Elect of American Nano Society (India)

Member of American Chemical Society

Member of Electrochemical society

Member of Magnetic Society of India

Member of Metallurgical Society of India

Research Areas

Energy related applications of nanomaterials

Environmental applications of nanomaterials

Fuel cell technology

Nanofluids

Green Hydrogen energy technology

Industrial wastewater treatment

CO₂ capture and conversion

Biological sensors

Biomedical applications of nanomaterials

Books

‘Graphene-The wonder material’ SAMS publisher (2012)

Patents and publications

PATENTS :- 50

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS :- 400

Intellectual Properties and Patents Filed/Awarded

21 US patents + 27 Indian Patents

Technology Developed:- 10

Ph.D.:- Completed:- 39 On-going:- 13

Projects Completed:- 60 Crores On-going:- 11 Crores

More details: https://physics.iitm.ac.in/ramp

Prof. P. Muthukumar

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati.

Title of Talk: " "

Prof. Muthukumar received PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras during 2005. He joined at IIT Guwahati as Assistant Professor in January 2006 and became Professor in January 2015. He received DAAD research fellowships during September – December 2000, June-July 2008, and June - July 2010. He is the recipient of IEI Young Engineer Award - 2010 in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Engineers (India). He received Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship (BASE Fellowship) from Indo - U.S. Science and Technology Forum (USIEF), Jan 2014 and also received Er. M.P. Baya National Award 2015 from Instituted by the Institution of Engineers (India), Udaipur. He is also the Fellow of Institute of Engineers (India). He is one of the Commission Member to represent India in the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR). He also received Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship from (USIEF) in 2018. He has served as the President, Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE), Guwahati sub-chapter. He also received “Mechanical Engineering Design Award 2017, from National Design & Research Forum (NDRF) of “The Institution of Engineers (India)”, 21st Dec 2017. During 2019, he was honoured as Eminent Engineer -2019 from “The Institution of Engineers (India)”, Assam State Centre.In 2020, he appeared in the World’s Top 2 % Scientist published by Stanford University, USA report. He has won BIRAC-Innovation Challenge Award-SoCH 2020-21 for stage – 1 and stage – 2.He was honoured with an award of Outstanding Engineering service to country by the Institution of Engineers (India), Rajasthan state centre on 15^th September 2021. To recognise his outstanding contributions in the field of Thermal Science and Energy Technology as well as his contribution in the growth of the country’s engineering profession, recently, he has been awarded for the prestigious “Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Award 2021”. He served as visiting Professor in many Universities from the USA and Germany and also having research collaborations with over 25 International Universities.

He has been published around 350 research articles in various International Journals and conference proceedings, edited four books and written 16 book chapters. He is having eleven national patents for his credit. He has served as guest editor in 3 elsevier Journal special issues. He has supervised 20 PhD and 60 M.Tech student’s theses. He has successfully completed 8 sponsored research projects worth of 550 lakhs and five consultancy projects worth of 50 lakhs. Currently he is handling 11 research projects worth of 1500 lakhs. He is the reviewer of more than 75 International Journals in the area of hydrogen energy, energy storage, refrigeration, heat transfer, etc. and also reviewed several research proposals from DST, MNRE, Qatar Research Board, etc. He has been serving as expert member in several ministries including DST, MHRD, Ministry Oil and Natural Gas, Ministry of External Affair, etc for research project funding and monitoring. He is also expert / steering committee member in BIS, AICTE, NAAC and many other professor organizations. His area of research includes sorption heating and cooling systems, hydrogen energy storage, metal hydride based thermal machines, coupled heat and mass transfer in porous medium, porous medium combustion, etc.

More details: https://www.iitg.ac.in/pmkumar/

Prof. Ramphal Sharma

Department of Physics

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad

Title of Talk: "Economical and Sustainable Development of Nanostructured Semiconductor Thin Films for Photovoltaic, Gas Sensors, and Energy Storage Applications"

Dr. Ramphal Sharma is serving the Department of Physics as a Professor since 2009 at Dr. Baba saheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. He joined as an associate professor in 2006 and was promoted in 2009. After his Ph.D., he joined North Maharashtra University affiliated G. T. Patil College, Nandurbar, India as a lecturer in Physics and was elevated to Senior lecturer in 1996. Further, he was promoted to Reader and Associate Professor of Physics in 2000. Also, he initiated and headed the Department of Nanotechnology, Dr. B. A. M. University. Aurangabad, India from May 2006 to Aug 2019 and is still performing his duty as a professor dynamically. He was awarded as Distinguished HOD and Research Professor(2016-17). Acquired fellowships include JRF-SRF(DRDO Project, University of Rajasthan), Post Doctorate Fellowship (ICTP, Tril) and Brain Pool Fellow (Hanyang University Seoul, South Korea). The list of publications(National and International)comprises of: 140-peer-reviewed Journals and 93-Conference proceedings. His logistics include 3256 citations, an h-index-30, and i10- index-71.His research interest are in the field of material science and nanotechnology such as designing practical solar cells for direct society use, metal oxide thin films for sensor applications, low-temperature supercapacitors, chalcogenide nanocomposites for lithium and sodium batteries and photocatalytic degradation. Until now, 28 students had the fortune of getting their Ph.D. under his guidance, 2 students had got the chance of getting their M.Phil, and 1 student has been awarded PDF with 05 Indian and 3 Foreigners working for Ph.D. at present. His research work has led him to explore countries like South Korea and Italy.

More details: http://www.ramphalsharma.0fees.net/?i=1

Prof. S.A. Sherif

University of Florida

Title of Talk: "Latest Advances in Energy Efficiency and Achieving Net-Zero Energy in the United States"

Dr. S.A. Sherif is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He is a Life Fellow of ASME, a Life Fellow of ASHRAE, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Vice President of Commission B-2 on Refrigerating Equipment of the International Institute of Refrigeration, a Member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, and a Founding Member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). Dr. Sherif currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications (2014-2019). He is on the editorial boards of 22 other thermal science journals. Dr. Sherif has 300 refereed papers, one book, 20 bound volumes, 24 book chapters, 190 technical reports, and two US patents.

More details: https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/sa-sherif/bio/

Prof. Kanchan Mondal

Director and Professor,

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Materials Engineering

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62902

Title of Talk: "Towards Net Zero Carbon Emissions in the Electricity and Transportation Fuels Sector"

Dr. Mondal’s research is primarily directed towards environmentally benign process development with current focus on carbon dioxide reduction and materials to enable alternative energy generation options. His research encompasses development of a clean coal technology (1 patent pending), development of enhanced reactivity CO₂ capture agents, development of novel catalysts for carbon dioxide fixation into chemicals and coal to liquid fuels ( 1 patent disclosure), development of materials for environmental remediation, development of low temperature hydrogenation processes (1 patent), supercritical processing, corrosion resistant materials, nanomaterials, energy systems analysis and other issues related to finding engineering solutions to improve the quality of life.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Engineering Science (2001), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

• M.S. Mining Engineering and Mineral Processing (1997), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

• B.Tech (Hons) Chemical Engineering (1994), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

AWARDS

• Outstanding Teacher Award, School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Materials Engineering, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

• Abner Brenner Award by American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society Inc., 2001.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(over 50 journal and 100 conference proceedings)

More details: https://engineering.siu.edu/me/faculty-staff/faculty/mondal.php

Prof. Yogendra Kumar Mishra

Professor WSR, The Mads Clausen Institute

Professor WSR, SDU NanoSYD

^{University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400, Sønderborg, DENMARK}

Title of Talk: "Tetrapods based Smart Materials for Advanced Technologies"

Yogendra Kumar Mishra is Professor MSO at Mads Clausen Institute, NanoSYD, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark. Prior joining to SDU, he worked as group leader at Kiel University, Germany. He did Habilitation in Materials Science from Kiel University in 2015 and Ph. D. in Physics in 2008 from Jawaharlal Nehru University (Inter University Accelerator Centre), New Delhi, India. In Kiel, he introduced a new flame-based process for metal oxide tetrapod nanostructuring and their 3D networks which showed many applications in engineering and biomedical fields. Additionally, tetrapods can be used as templates to create hybrid and new 3D materials. At NanoSYD, he is heading ‘Smart Materials’ group with the focus to develop new materials for green and sustainable technologies.

Publications >230, Citations>11250, H-index: 58

https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/Mishra

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TW4Bq_oAAAAJ&hl=en

More details: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/mishra

Prof. Chengshang Zhou

Distinguished Associate Professor

SANY Bld. Rm 507, Central South University, No. 932 Lushan South Rd Changsha Hunan, 410083

Title of Talk: "Titanium-Based Catalysts For Improving Hydrogen Storage Properties Of Magnesium Hydride"

Dr. Zhou is Associate professor, PMRI, Central South University, Interdisciplinary research experience on Metal hydrides, Hydrogen and thermal energy storage, Powder metallurgy, and Physical metallurgy. Prof. Zhou was awarded competitive research funding including: National Science Foundation of China(NSFC), Central South University Innovation-Driven Foundation. Prof Zhou authored and Co-authored 40Peer-reviewed Papers; Received 1100+ Citations (google scholar); Peer Reviewer for international journals: Nano Energy, Acta Materialia, Scientific Reports, JPCC. Prof Zhou has received prestigious academic awards including: Garr Cutler Energy Prize (1 graduate student awarded each year in the University of Utah), Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (500 top students selected from all oversea Chinese students).

More details: https://faculty.csu.edu.cn/chengshangzhou/en/index.htm

Dr. Panos Grammatikopoulos

Assistant Professor at Osaka University, Okinawa, Japan

Department of Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK

Title of Talk: "Nanoparticle scaffolds for multilayered Si-based Li-ion battery anodes"

Dr. Panos is a computational materials scientist and nanotechnologist with extensive experience as a simulation expert in experimental nanotechnology groups and involvement in industrial research. His research interests lie on fundamental processes regarding nanoparticles, but extend to device fabrication and applications, including gas- and bio-sensors, battery electrodes, hydrogen storage, etc. He graduated from the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2000 and the Postgraduate Course "Physics of Materials" in 2002. He did his MSc thesis at the University of Liverpool, UK, where he returned in 2005 to do his PhD. He has worked as a Research Associate for NCSR Demokritos, Greece, and the University of Greenwich, UK. Since 2011 he has also collaborated with the University of Helsinki as a Visiting Researcher. In 2012 he became Postdoctoral Scholar for the "Nanoparticles by Design" Unit at OIST, where in 2016 he officially took over as Unit Leader. Since the Unit was disbanded in 2019, he has worked at OIST as an Independent Researcher, collaborating with various groups around the world. Since 2020 he has held the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at the Particle Technology Laboratory at ETH Zurich, and that of Visiting Researcher at the Center for Atomic and Molecular Technologies at Osaka University, where, as of September 2021, he holds the position of Specially Appointed Assistant Professor. Panos is a peer reviewer for 38 international journals and 2 national grants. He has given 10 plenary/keynote/invited talks and 23 oral/poster presentations to international conferences and events, whereas he organised/chaired sessions in 7 international conferences.

More details: https://www.linkedin.com/in/panagiotis-grammatikopoulos-81516236/

Dr. Dinesh Pathak

(Presently) Faculty Member in Physics,

University of West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Title of Talk: "Fourth Generation Photovoltaics : Hybrid materials"

Dr Dinesh Pathak Faculty member at Physics, University of West Indies, is Ph D , GNDU, Post Doc EUROPE, during 2012-2015 in Czech Republic at University of Pardubice, European Union. He also worked at Queens University , Canada during 2013 , Participated in various workshops and conferences at i) Italy ii) China iii) USA iv) Spain v) Poland vi) Germany vii) Czech Republic viii) Canada ix) Switzerland. Published 54 research papers in SCI indexed journals on materials science , with more than 1000 citations and H index 15, iH30 with ResearchGate profile in top 10 percent worldwide. Guided various Ph D , M Phil and M Tech thesis. Reviewers of more than 60 scientific journals with examiner Ph D, M Phil and M Sc at various Universities. Participated in 62 lindau Nobel laureates meeting dedicated to Physics in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPhqCFIE8UU&t=48s

also Awarded with Rising star award and International Union of crystallography award by Asian and Chinese crystallography society in Beijing City , China, in 2009. Also work for Science Popularization and promotion to encourage students to take Science as career for growing India as Science and technology based economy . Also teach courses at Department of Physics, University of West Indies ,ranked in first 600 by times Higher Education world Ranking.

More details: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dinesh_Pathak2/publications

Dr. Ranveer Singh

Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

Ajou University, South Korea

Title of Talk: "Ultrafast optoelectronics devices: Hot-carrier generation and injection"

Dr. Ranveer did his masters from department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur in 2012. After that he did Ph.D. in Physics from Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar in 2019. Meanwhile, he joined the IIT Kharagpur as a visiting scientist. Subsequently, Dr. Ranveer got the post-doc offer from Ajou University, South Korea. He is also recipient of the Brain Pool (BP) Fellowship, which is a very prestigious fellowship of South Korea. Currently, he is continuing as a brain pool fellow at Ajou University, South Korea. His research interest includes surface engineering and growth of different functional materials for their applications in optoelectronic, hot-carrier injection, energy harvesting, and memory devices. In addition, he is also interested in charge transport and ultrafast photonic devices at nanoscale. He is the author and co-author of more than 50 publications in international journals.

More details: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=xyZEBQ0AAAAJ&hl=en

Dr. Subrahmanyam Sappati

Assoc. Prof. (tenure track), Department of Physical Chemistry

Gdansk university of technology, Gdańsk, Poland

Title of Talk: "Descriptors to predict dye‐sensitized semiconductor based photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction"

Subrahmanyam Sappati was born in Urlam, Srikakulam, Andhrapradesh. He did his schooling at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Vennelavalsa, Srikakulam (1999-2006). He studied under graduation, B. Sc (Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry) at Gayatri college of science and management, Srikakulam (2006-2009). Subsequently, he joined in post-graduation (M. Sc) at the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (2009-2011). Later, he spent one year as a project assistant at ACRHEM, Hyderabad (2011-2012). He did his Ph. D. in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, IISER Pune (Aug 2012- Jan 2019) under the guidance of Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh. During his Ph.D., he had multiple short-term visits to ICTP, Trieste, Italy for his collaboration works with Prof. Ralph Gebauer and Prof. Ali Hassanali. Later he moved to Post-doctoral at IISER Thiruvananthapuram (2019-2020) and further he moved to Raman Research Institute (RRI-Bengaluru) as a visiting researcher (2020-2021). Last year, he joined as a tenure track faculty (Associate professor level) at Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk, Poland). His research focuses on molecular bio-physics aspects in proteins.

More details: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Subrahmanyam-Sappati

Dr. Dinesh Topwal

Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg

P.O: Sainik School, Bhubaneswar 751005

Title of Talk: "New generation of photovoltaic material: understanding the fundamentals"

Dr. Topwal is Associate Professor (-Scientist - G) at Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India. He is working in interdisciplinary research areas ranging from innovative studies of the basic properties of condensed-matter systems which includes investigating the electronic structure and magnetic properties of various thin films, nanoscale systems and strongly correlated systems. Our research interest also extends to various advanced functional materials which have potential technological applications. He published around 70 research papers in high impact factor Journal from 2000-2021. Some research topics are as follows: Low-dimensional systems in condensed matter: Electronic and magnetic structure of low-dimensional and nanoscale-ordered systems, Quantum confinement effects in 2D, 1D, 0D; Designing atomically engineered thin films/heterostructures/ superstructures, Transport in thin films and surface alloys.

Spectroscopy and band mapping: Spin-orbit coupling, Rashba effect, Electron-phonon interaction, Band mapping, hybridization, Fermi surfaces, Topological insulators and other Dirac materials, Unconventional electronic phases in self-assembled superstructures on metals, semiconductors, Graphene, Silicene, Organic films, etc.

Strongly correlated systems: Magnetism, transport, metal insulator transition and charge ordering in Transition metal oxides, spinels, chalcogenides, titanates, etc., CMR Materials, Multiferroic Materials, Spin glass behavior, Superconductitvity and intermatallic compounds

Application oriented research: New generation Solar cells, Waste heat recovery via Thermoelectric materials, Magnetocaloric effect and magnetic refrigeration, Spintronic materials.

More details: https://www.iopb.res.in/~dinesh.topwal/contact.html

Dr. Rajendra S. Dhaka

Associate Professor

Novel Materials and Interface Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, INDIA

Title of Talk: "Development of 2D materials as anode for sodium-ion batteries"

Biosketch

Academic/Scientific/Professional:

11/2019 - onwards: Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT/D) Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, INDIA

04/2014 – 11/2019: Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT/D) Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, INDIA

02/2013-03/2014: Scientific Collaborator, (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Milan Radovic/ Prof. Dr. Ming Shi /Prof. Dr. Joël Mesot) at Paul Scherrer Institut-Swiss Light Source, Villigen, Switzerland

11/2010-11/2012: Post-doctoral Research Associate, (Advisor: Prof. Aadm Kaminski) at The Ames Laboratory, US DOE, Iowa State University, Ames, USA

11/2008-11/2010: Post-doctoral Fellow (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kirschner) at Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle (GERMANY).

07/2002-11/2008: Ph. D. in Physics (Advisor: Dr. Sudipta Roy Barman) at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore, INDIA.

07/1999-02/2002: M. Sc. (Physics) COSIST (four semester program) at Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, INDIA.

07/1996-06/1999: B. Sc. (Physics, Chemistry, Maths.) from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, INDIA.

Visits abroad (Academic/Scientific/Professional):

22/09/2019-29/09/2019: China InnoTour for Indian Young Scientists, Kunming and Shanghai, China hosted by Department of International cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Indian Embassy.

05/2019 - 07/2019 (three months): Guest Scientist, (in the group of Prof. Dr. Helmut Ehrenberg/Dr. Sonia Dsoke) at IAM-ESS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

3/12/2018 - 12/12/2018: Visiting Scientist at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Toyosu, Koto-ku Tokyo, Japan

29/4/2018 - 04/05/2018: International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (ICSM 2018), Antalya, Turkey

10/2017 - 01/2018 (three months): Visiting Scientist/Indo-Australia EMCR Fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. Clemens Ulrich, at Department of Physics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

05/2016 - 07/2016 (six weeks): Guest Scientist in the group of Prof. Dr. Milan Radovic/ Prof. Dr. Ming Shi, at Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)-Swiss Light Source (SLS), Villigen, Switzerland

06/2015 - 07/2015 (two weeks): Visiting Scientist in the group of Prof. Dr. Milan Radovic/ Prof. Dr. Ming Shi/Prof. Dr. Joël Mesot, at Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)-Swiss Light Source (SLS), Villigen, Switzerland

27/10/2014 - 31/10/2014: ``International workshop on probing and understanding exotic superconductors and superfluids", Miramare, ICTP Trieste, Italy

More details: https://web.iitd.ac.in/~rsdhaka/

Dr. Ravindra Jangir

Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT).

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Title of Talk: " "

Dr. Ravindra Jangir received his M.Sc (Physics) degree in 2003 from Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He joined Bhabha Atomic research centre in 2005. After one year of course work, he was posted at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore in 2006 and are working there. He has completed his Ph.D. from HBNI, Mumbai. Currently, he is Scientist-F in synchrotron utilization section, RRCAT, Indore. From 2006 to 2010, he was involved in the development and optimization of III-V semiconductor lasers. He has hands-on-training experience on design, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor laser diode devices. In his PhD work, he optimized the growth of oxide nanowires (Ga₂O₃ and In₂O₃) and investigated the gas sensing via optical method in these nanowires. Since 2010, he is working in synchrotron utilization section where he involves in the development of X-ray magnetic circular Dichroism (XMCD) beamline at Indus-2 synchrotron source. His current research interest includes p-type and n-type transparent conducting oxide materials, oxide nanowires and mutliferroic materials.

More details: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/R-Jangir

Dr. Sushant Kumar

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India

Title of Talk: "Tri-Phase Photocatalysis For Co₂ Reduction And N₂ Fixation With Efficient Electron Transfer On A Hydrophilic Surface Of Transition-Metal-Doped Mil-88a (Fe)"

Dr. Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor in Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, India since April, 2017. Before joining IIT Patna, Dr. Kumar worked with Nanoparticles by Design Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan between May 2014-August 2016. He also worked as a visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, India between August 2016- April 2017. Sushant Kumar, received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA in December 2013. He has a B. Tech. degree in Chemical Technology from Institute of Chemical Technology (previously, UDCT), Mumbai, India in 2009. His main research interest lies in heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, CO2 capture and utilization, and hydrogen production and storage methods. He has published 18 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Published papers are in highly-reputed journals such as Advanced Energy Materials (IF:29.06), Applied Catalysis B: Environmental (IF:19.05). He has also one granted US Patent as primary inventor. He has received the sponsored research funding from various govt. funding agencies. Under his supervision, 1 Ph.D. student (thesis submitted) and 1 M. Tech. by research student has already been graduated and 02 Ph.D. are ongoing. He is a recipient of young scientist research award (BRNS, 2019), Dissertation Evidence Acquisition Fellowship, Dissertation Year Fellowship from FIU. He is also a member of National Academy of Inventors, USA. He was also recognized for his outstanding performance as doctoral graduate, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, FIU. Dr. Kumar also serves as reviewers for several reputed journals in the area of catalysis.

More details: https://www.iitp.ac.in/index.php/en-us/people-12/faculty/2-uncategorised/303-view-profile-100

Dr. Kamil Domaradzki

Researcher

Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics AGH UST

Title of Talk: "Influence of mechanochemical synthesis conditions on the

physicochemical properties of a high-entropy, nanocrystalline oxide developed for application in hydrogen technologies"

Dr. Domaradzki is researcher at Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics AGH UST and doing his research in the field of Materials Science. He dis his PhD on the topic "New generation of oxide materials for hydrogen storage. Before this, He did his Master of Engineering (with Honours) in the faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics AGH UST with Materials Science, specialty: Functional Materials and thesis title: Synthesis and physicochemical properties of ZrO2-Y2O3-V2O5 solid solutions. He is Master of Engineering, Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics AGH UST, in the Field of Materials Science and his thesis entitled "Design of a technology used to manufacture elements of a solid oxide electrolyser cells from an electrolyte based on yttria-stabilized zirconia". He successfully completed Research project as individual level (Head of the project granted by IDUB AGH UST and Title of grant is entitled "Nanocrystalline high entropy oxides for hydrogen storage".

Dr. Balaji Subramanian

Assistant Professor

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TIRUPATI

Title of Talk: "Wing Energy Opportunities and Challenges"

Dr. Balaji did his PhD at Laboratory for Energy Conversion (LEC) July 2010 – September 2015 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland under the Supervision of Prof. Dr. Reza S. Abhari and Thesis entitle 'Drone based experimental investigation of flow around multi-MW wind farms in flat and complex terrains'. He completed his M.Tech in Aerospace Engineering after B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering.

AWARDS AND HONOURS 1. Prestigious Swiss National Foundation (SNF) fellowship awarded to do my postdoctoral research at University of California Santa Barbara, in Dec. 2015. 2. PhD research project featured in Swiss TV on SF TV Einstein program (http://goo.gl/SYJWNc) and on Polish national television TVP (http://goo.gl/o95Se8). 3. GE ‘Management award’ for filing five invention disclosures (2008). 4. Design for Six sigma (DFSS) certified in Oct. 2008. 5. ‘GE active volunteer’ awarded by Lions club (Whitefield, Bangalore), 2010.

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Dr. Sumita Srivastava

Pt. Lalit Mohan Sharma Campus Rishikesh-249201

Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University, Tehri Garhwal, India

Title of Talk: "HYDROGEN STORAGE MATERIALS FOR VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS"

Dr. Sumita Srivastava is Professor of Physics in Pt. Lalit Mohan Sharma Campus Rishikesh of Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University of Tehri Garhwal India. She has 22 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and post graduate level and 26 years of research experience in the field of Hydrogen Energy. She has administrative experience of working as principal and head of the department for many years. Dr. Srivastava has published more than 42 research papers in peer reviewed International Journals with high impact factor, including Elsevier and Springer along with conference proceedings. She has contributed 6 chapters in the research book of national and international publishers and edited the 2 books. She is regular reviewer of 07 International Journals of Elsevier and others. Dr. Srivastava was Vice-President of Indian Association of Physics Teachers for six years in Uttarakhand between 2011 to 2017. She has been awarded by ‘Nari Shakti Ratan Award’ by Lions Club Rishikesh in 2019, ‘Research Excellence Award 2021” by Institute of scholars, Bengaluru, India and ‘Excellence in Research of the Year Award 2021’ by Divya Himgiri Foundation, Uttarakhand, India.

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