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 his group is investigating fundamental mechanisms of friction, wear, lubrication, and tribochemical processes in sliding contact at the liquid-solid interfaces.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Abu Darda (2025-Present) : CSIR Fellow

Project: Reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO)–Modified Oleo-Epoxy Nanocomposite Coatings

Ph. D. Students

Shweta Keshri (July 2020-present, jointly with Prof. Anoop Krishnan)

Project: Glass-based solid electrolyte for Na+ ion battery: Composition-Structure-Property correlation.

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 tribology of 2D materials 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.

Sudha Kumari (July 2022-present)

Project: Spray coatings.

Vishal Bhaskar (July 2023-present)

Project: Tribological study of MXene-based lubricants and coatings.

Devesh (July 2024-present)

Project: Shear properties of 2D materials at nanoscale

Arti (July 2025-present)

Project: TBD

M. Tech. Students

Sudhakar (July 2025-present)

Project: Development of nanoparticle-based advanced lubricants for electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies

B. Tech. (Project) Students

Megha Mondal (July 2025-present)

Project: Leveraging Language Models for Autonomous Interpretation of Nano-Indentation Data

Arjun Chand (July 2025-present)

Project: Autonomous LLM Agents for Cost Effective Experimental Methodology Generation

Alumni

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

Sourav Sahoo (July 2019-2024, jointly with Prof. Anoop Krishnan)

(Recipient of PMRF fellowship 2021)

Project: Multiscale experiments and atomistic simulations of scratch on 2D material-glass surfaces (Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher - Aalborg University, Denmark)

Himanshu Rai (Jan 2019-2023)

Project: Nanoscale tribology of 2D materials. (Current Position: 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. (Current Position: Postdoc at University of Calgary (Canada), Recipient of Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship).

Amit Prasad (July 2016-Sept 2022)

Thesis Title: Mechanical, wear and corrosion behaviour of a novel Mg-10Dy-0.7La earth alloys. (Current Position: 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 Position: Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, 530003, India)

Prashant Mittal (July 2016-Sept 2021)

Thesis Title: Nanotribology and tribochemical investigations of Al-Si alloys using in situ atomic force microscopy. (Current Position: Postdoc at CTU, Prague, Czech Republic)

M. Tech. Graduates

Jatin Arora (2022-2023)- Thesis Title: Nanoscale tribology of Human Hair (Industry Collaborator: Marico).
Debottam Datta (2020-2021)- Thesis Title: Nanotribological investigation of CMP process of semiconductor wafers.
Sandeep Kushwaha (2020-2021)- Thesis Title: Recycling of multilayer laminate packaging film laminates.
Arif Usmani (2017-2018)- Thesis Title: Microscopic friction study of textured surfaces.
Ved Prakash Ojha (2017-2018)- Thesis Title: Corrosion of Mg-Y alloys
Amit Kumar (2016-2017) – Thesis Title: Nanotribology of aluminium-silicon alloys for automotive engine applications.
Durgesh Meena (2018-2019)-Thesis Title: Nanotribology of high entropy alloys.