The Team
Prof. Nitya Nand Gosvami
Associate Professor
Dr. Nitya Nand Gosvami completed his B. Tech. with honours, in Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology - Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU), in India in 2003 and completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore in 2008. He joined Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Germany as a Postdoctoral Scientist in March 2008 and was later awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. During March-May, 2008, he was a visiting scientist at Department of Physics at McGill University in Canada. In October 2010, he joined University College London in United Kingdom as Research Associate and worked in collaboration with London Center for Nanotechnology. In September 2012, he moved to Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Pennsylvania in the United States where he worked as a Research Project Manager. He joined Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D) in 2016 where he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Gosvami's research is focused upon study of mechanical and tribological behavior of materials at nanoscale where he is investigating fundamental mechanisms of friction, wear, lubrication, and tribochemical processes in sliding contact at the liquid-solid interfaces.
Ph. D. Students
Saurav Sahoo (July 2019-present, jointly with Prof. Anoop Krishnan)
(Recipient of PMRF fellowship 2021)
Project: Mechanics and tribology of glasses.
Shweta Keshri (July 2020-present, jointly with Prof. Anoop Krishnan)
Project: TBC
Syed Junaid (Jan 2021-present)
(Recipient of PMRF fellowship 2022)
Project: Nanotribology of energy effficient novel lubricating coatings.
Jitendra Soni (July 2021-present)
Project: Nanoscale tribochemical reactions under lubricated contacts.
Sajid Mannan (Aug 2021-present, jointly with Prof. Anoop Krishnan)
Project: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Multiscale Modeling of Deformation and Fracture in Brittle Materials
(Recipient of PMRF fellowship)
Debottam Datta (Jan 2022-present, jointly with Prof. J. P. Singh)
Project: Nanotextured surfaces for friction control.
Indrajeet Mandal (July 2022-present, jointly with Anoop Krishnan)
Project: Glass Electrolytes.
Vishal Bhaskar (July 2023-present)
Project: TBA
M. Tech. Students
B. Tech. Students
Shubham Inani (July 2023-present)
Project: Nanotribology of human hair using atomic force microscopy.
Alumni
Project Staff
Debottam Datta (Aug 2021-Dec 2021) Project: Nanotribological investigation of CMP process of semiconductor wafers.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Brij Mohan (2019-2020)
Project: Electrochemistry and failure of biological implant. (Current: Assistant Prof. at MNIT, Jaipur)
Swarnima Singh (2021-2022)
Project: Nanotribology, graphene and CNT based thin films, surface engineering.
PhD Graduates
Himanshu Rai (Jan 2019-present)- PhD student
Project: Nanoscale tribology of 2D materials. (Postdoc at CTU, Prague, Czech Republic)
Kasi Muthumanian (Jan 2018-March 2023, jointly with Prof. Anoop Krishnan)
Project: Nanomechanical and tribological properties of silicate glasses. (Postdoc at University of Calgary, Canada)
Recipient of Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship (Canada).
Amit Prasad (July 2016-Sept 2022)
Thesis Title: Mechanical, wear and corrosion behaviour of a novel Mg-10Dy-0.7La earth alloys. (Current: Postdoc at University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Deepak Chauhan (2016-2021)- (Jointly with Prof. Jayant Jain)
Thesis Title: Nanoscale friction and wear properties of AZ91 Mg alloys. (Current: Postdoc at Carngie Mellon University, USA)
Prashant Mittal (July 2016-Sept 2021)
Thesis Title: Nanotribology and tribochemical investigations of Al-Si alloys using in situ atomic force microscopy. (Postdoc at CTU, Prague, Czech Republic)
M. Tech. Graduates
Jatin Arora (July 2022-2023)
Project: Nanoscale tribology of Human Hair (Industry Collaborator: Marico).
Debottam Datta (2020-2021)- M. Tech. student, Thesis Title: Nanotribological investigation of CMP process of semiconductor wafers.
Sandeep Kushwaha (2020-2021)- M. Tech. student, Thesis Title: Recycling of multilayer laminate packaging film laminates.
Arif Usmani (2017-2018)- M. Tech. student, Thesis Title: Microscopic friction study of textured surfaces.
Ved Prakash Ojha (2017-2018)- M. Tech. student, Thesis Title: Corrosion of Mg-Y alloys
Amit Kumar (2016-2017) – M.Tech. student, Thesis Title: Nanotribology of aluminium-silicon alloys for automotive engine applications.
Durgesh Meena (2018-2019)-M.Tech. student, Thesis Title: Nanotribology of high entropy alloys.
Undergraduate Students
Vithika Agarwal, Department of Mechanical Engineering
SURA Project Title: Novel approach to manufacture cantilevers for Atomic Force Microscopy
Ujjawal Jain, Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering
SURA Project Title: Novel approach to manufacture cantilevers for Atomic Force Microscopy
Ankur Kumar, Department of Physics, jointly with Prof. J. P. Singh
(Project Title: Bio-inspired surface texturing for friction reduction)
Abhishek Sehgal, Department of Physics, jointly with Prof. J. P. Singh
(Project Title: Bio-inspired surface texturing for friction reduction)
Zuhaa Khan (July 2022-April 2023)
Project: Graphene coatings for scratch resistant glasses (NIT exchange program)
Vishal Arjoon (July 2022-Oct 2022, jointly with Prof. Lakshmi Narayan)
Project: Improving tribological properties of metals using diamond like carbon coating. (SURA Project)
Swastik Kushagr Jha (July 2022-Oct 2022, jointly with Prof. Lakshmi Narayan)
Project: Improving tribological properties of metals using diamond like carbon coating. (SURA Project)
Vernika Gautam (July 2023-Sept 2023)
Project: Scratch resistant silicate glasses via 2D material coatings.
Manish Verma (July 2023-Dec 2023)
Project: Development of advanced silicate glasses with enhanced surface protection using graphene and other 2D materials.