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Babasaheb R. Sankapal is Professor and Head, Chairman Board of Studies, Department of Physics, Former Associate Dean (Exam), Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.  Dr Sankapal obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2001 from Shivaji University Kolhapur (M.S.).  served as as Scientist at Helmholtz Centre, Berlin, Germany; JSPS Fellow at Gifu University, Japan; and Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA,  . 

Dr Sankapals name is listed in “World’s Top 2% Scientist for year 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 as per Stanford’s University and he has achieved AD Scientific Index India Rank less than 450. As per Research.com, Ranking of Top Scientists in the field of Materials, he ranked 134 in India and 8788 in the world. 

He served as Chairman, Board of Studies for the Department,  and HoD, he successfully received grant of 2.47 crore (DST-FIST).Dr Sankapal has 27 years of research and 17 years of teaching experience. On his credit, he has 10 major research projects cost about 2.82 crore. 

He supervised 17 Ph.D. and 21 MSc project students, published more than 198 research papers with Google Scholar h-Index 64 with citations above 8700 and average impact factor 5. Dr Sankapal's Ph.D. students serving/served as Postdoc Fellows in Germany, Japan, UK, USA, Denmark, Spain, S. Korea and Israel. Two students listed in Top 2% scientist list.  

Dr Sankapal has Edited one book in Springer, contributed three book chapters (Springer and Elsevier). He has filled two indian patents. He  served as a coordinator for arranging two self finance STTP and co-conevner for one conference and serving as member, Research Advisory Committee (RAC) NIT Raipur, member BoS NIT Raipur and MNNIT Allahabad.