Brief Bio:

Dr. Ranjan Kumar Sahu is a materials physicist specializing in ferroelectrics, multiferroics, and spin caloritronics. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow (since January 2026) in the School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea, and previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (February–December 2025). 

He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from IIT Hyderabad under the supervision of Prof. Saket Asthana, supported by a Ministry of Education, Government of India fellowship. He also worked as a part-time Researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan (March–September 2024), where he conducted research on the spin Peltier effect in multiferroic materials under Dr. Kenichi Uchida. 

His research excellence has been recognized with Best Poster Awards at the 68th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (BARC, Mumbai, 2024) and the IEEE South Asia Ferroelectric Symposium (IISc Bengaluru, 2025), and he is the inventor of two granted patents in functional and ferroelectric materials. He received his M.Sc. in Physics (2019) from Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanjadeo University, Baripada, India.