Dr. Pradeep Kumar

• Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India [July 2026-present]

• Associate Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India [2021-2026]

• Assistant Professor, School of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India [2014-2021]

Education

• Ph.D (Physics, 2014), IISc, Bangalore, India.

• M.Sc (Physics, 2007), School of Physical Sciences, JNU, Delhi, India.

• B.Sc (Physics, 2005), Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Awards and achievement

• Awarded a project by ANRF  (CRG) - 2024, Rs. 36 Lakhs.

• Awarded a project by DST India - 2019, Rs. 45.1 Lakhs.

• Selected as member of Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) -2018. 

• INSPIRE Faculty Award by DST, Govt. of India - 2014 (Session-II).

• Secured AIR – 39 in Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) (2007).

• Secured AIR - 19 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (2007).

• Qualified exam for KVPY fellowship (the most prestigious fellowship for undergraduates in science by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India).

• Was awarded Jawahar Bhawan Trust Scholarship for final year of M.Sc. at JNU for securing the highest SGPA in 1st year of M.S. 

• Secured position among top ~ 0.2 % of all candidates (~ 10,000) appeared for NET examination in the field of physics and was selected for prestigious Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (SPM) fellowship examination held in 2007.

•  Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior and Senior research fellowship (JRF and SRF) conducted by UGC-CSIR, (India), -2007.

• Secured AIR - 01 in the entrance exam conducted by University of Delhi for admission to M.Sc. Physics program (2005).

• Secured All India Rank (AIR) - 06 in the entrance exam conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, for admission to M.Sc. Physics program (2005).

• Was awarded a merit scholarship for the third year of B.Sc. (Phys. Hons.) at Hansraj College, Delhi University (2005).

Professional Service

Referee for the journals:  

• Phys. Rev. Letters 

• Advanced Functional Materials

• Phys. Rev. B 

• Phys. Rev. Materials

• Nano Letters

•  npj 2D Materials and Applications

• J. Phys. Cond. Matter

• J.  Appl.  Phys.

• Scientific Reports.

• Nanoscale

• The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

• Results in Physics.