Virtual Seminar Series on Functional Materials

Dr. S. Easwaramoorthi did his M.Sc. and M.Tech. from Banaras Hindu University and Indian Institute of Technology respectively. Then he moved to National University of Singapore to do his Ph.D. After successfully finishing his Ph.D. he joined as Research Scientist at Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR to continue his research on thin film devices, Scanning Probe Microscopy/Spectroscopy. He returned to India in 2011 to join National Physical Laboratory in NewDelhi and since then he is working as Principal Scientist in NPL Delhi. Currently, he is working on Topological insulators and 2D materials; Semiconductor physics: III-nitrides wide band gap materials and his primary expertise is on Scanning probe microscopy: STM and AFM; Device fabrication: Photodetectors.
He has published >70 publication (reputed journals) and 1 Patent.
Guided PhD students - 4
Ongoing - 4
Projects - completed 2 ongoing 1

Dr. Sunil S. Kushvaha did his M.Sc. and M.Tech. from Banaras Hindu University and Indian Institute of Technology respectively. Then he moved to National University of Singapore to do his Ph.D. After successfully finishing his Ph.D. he joined as Research Scientist at Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR to continue his research on thin film devices, Scanning Probe Microscopy/Spectroscopy. He returned to India in 2011 to join National Physical Laboratory in NewDelhi and since then he is working as Principal Scientist in NPL Delhi. Currently, he is working on Topological insulators and 2D materials; Semiconductor physics: III-nitrides wide band gap materials and his primary expertise is on Scanning probe microscopy: STM and AFM; Device fabrication: Photodetectors.

Dr. Sivakumar Vaidyanathan obtained his Bachelor and Master degree in chemistry from Muthurangam Govt Arts College - affiliated to University of Madras. After working for one and half years as a research fellow/synthetic chemist in the field of fuel cells/organic synthesis, Dr. Sivakumar moved to Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), to pursue doctoral studies. In 2007, he received his Doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. U. V. Varadaraju. His doctoral thesis focused on Lanthanide luminescence in mixed Metal Oxides and Silicates
After completing Ph.D. in 2007, he worked as a Brain Korea 21 Post-Doctoral Research fellow at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea from April 2007 to March 2009 in the field of Molecular materials for display and lighting applications and then, from April 2009 to April 2010 worked in the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, France in the field of OLEDs (Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of lanthanide containing Molecular complexes and Metallo polymers for organic or polymer light emitting diodes). His doctoral work was adjudged the best thesis in Inorganic/Analytical Chemistry for the year 2007 by IIT-Madras and awarded Prof. Alfred Werner medal. After spending a year in NIT Calicut as a Faculty in the Department of Chemistry, He was faculty at Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Rourkela from Sep 2011 to Sep 2022. Currently he is associate professor at IIT Hyderabad and he has published >90 publication (reputed journals) and 5 book chapters.
Guided PhD students – 8
Ongoing – 6
Projects – completed 5 ongoing 1
Many awards including BRNS, DST, Inspire young scientist award.

Dr. Srinivasan Anandan is a Senior Scientist at International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad, India. Dr. Anandan obtained his UG, PG and M.Phil degrees from Bharathidasan University, Trichy. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Anna University, India in 2006. Then he served as a Post-Doctoral Research scientist (2006 - 2010) in National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, and in Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) and also in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. He continued his work at AIST, then at Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH), Tokyo, as JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Science) Fellow (2011-2012). After that he joined in International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad, INDIA (June 2012).
He has published more than 60 papers in Scopus indexed journals and 2 Book Chapters. He has 10 patents. He received a prestigious award “JSPS FELLOWSHIP” from Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Japan. He was awarded as “YOUNG SCIENTIST” in the Material Research Society of Japan at IUMRS-ICA 2008, Nagoya, Japan and “OUTSTANDING SCIENTIST AWARD” for his contribution and achievement in the field of Nanomaterials during 3rd Annual Research Meet held at Chennai on 11th November 2017. He received many Best Oral/poster Presentation Awards in many national/International Conferences (Super Capacitors and Energy Storage Applications (ICSEA-2019)' held at Thrissur, Kerala during March 08 – 09 (2019), “Battery Technologies & Electric Mobility” at HP Green R & D Centre, Bangalore on March 8-9 (2018), INDIA NANO 2017 held during 7-8th December 2017 in Bangalore with the Cash Prize of Rs.20,000, etc.) He a Member of American Chemical Society, and Material Research Society of Japan. He also acts as a reviewer for international referred journals like ACS, RSC and Elsevier.
His fields of research are material development for Energy storage technologies (Li-ion battery, Supercapacitor, & Li-ion capacitor), development of UV and visible-light driven photocatalysts for Self-cleaning application, and development of large-scale process for the synthesis of Nanomaterials

Dr. Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy
Nano-Engineered Biodevices Group,
Materials Research and Technology Department,
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Prof. Nazmul Ahsan
Prof. Nazmul Ahsan received his Ph.D. in electronic engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2002. He is currently a Project Associate Professor at the RCAST, The University of Tokyo. His research interests include high-efficiency photovoltaic devices, molecular beam epitaxy of compound semiconductors and 2D chalcogenides, materials and device characterization, computation and machine learning as applied to materials science. He has published nearly 100 journal articles with over 2000 citations.

Dr. Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
Dr. Kushwaha is Assistant Professor in Department of Metallurgy Engineering & Materials Science, IIT Indore. He is also associated faculty in Center for Advanced Electronics (CAE) and Center of Futuristic Defense and Space Technology (CFDST), IIT Indore. He received M.Sc. degree in Physics (Electronics) from C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur and Ph.D. degree in Physics (Nanomaterials) from IIT Bombay. He was scientist at Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore during Feb 2014 to July 2016. After That he joined IIT Indore in 2016. He is the recipient of DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award (2016) and SERB-Early Career Research Award (2017) from Government of India. Dr. Kushwaha is life-member of, MRSI, IIM, IPA, EMSI & LSI and member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Kushwaha is leading the research group ‘Nano & Energy Materials' at IIT Indore. The group is working on the synthesis of various functional nanomaterials and the investigation of fundamental properties of nanoscale materials/devices. The group is motivated to develop low cost, large scale, and facile materials for electronics & electrochemical devices namely artificial synapses, memristors, energy harvesting/storage devices, electrochemical sensors, and metal recovery & anti-corrosion coatings.

Dr. Harmon
Dr. Harmon received his PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University in 2010. Dr. Harmon spent several years at the University of Iowa as a post-doc and research scientist in theoretical condensed matter physics before. Dr. Harmon spent three years at the University of Evansville before joining the faculty of Coastal Carolina University in the Fall of 2021. Dr. Harmon's research focuses on utilization of electron spin for a variety of applications: new magnetic memories, new methods of defect identification in electronic devices, and using paramagnetic defects for quantum sensing of magnetic and electric fields.

Dr. N Vijayan
Dr N Vijayan is Principle scientist and associate professor at the CSIR lab National Physical Laboratory NPL. Dr Vijayan did most of his education from Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirapalli and his doctorate from Anna University Chennai. Dr Vijayan joined the NPL as Junior scientist in 2004. With his outstanding performance in research he was gradually promoted to various cadres and is now the Principal Scientist and Group Head of the In-House Bharathiya Nirdeshak Draya (BND) group of the BND division. His current research interests are: Growth of Nonlinear and Piezoelectric single crystals by VBT and Solution growth techniques; Preparation of Si Powder as a Indian Reference Material (BND) for the calibration of Powder X-ray Diffractometer; Preparation of Nanomaterials by Microwave and autoclave methods Characterization of Materials by different sophisticated techniques. He was selected for Raman Research Fellowship 2020, has played a key role in achieving outstanding performance award for BND group 2018, Dr Gunasekaran award for Spectroscopy in 2018, outstanding researcher and scholar icon 2017, Beat Innovate Researcher award in 2015, Bharat excellence award in 2014, BOYSCAST fellowship by DST in 2007-2008, CSIR Young Scientist for 2007 and the list goes on and on. Dr Vijayan have nearly 400 publication to his credit which include peer reviewed international and national journal publication, conference publications, books and book chapters. Dr Vijayan also have a Spanish patent on Semiconductor mono-crystal growth system by variable growth speed. Dr Vijayan is also an active member of several scientific societies such as National academy of sciences, fellow of academy of sciences, Chennai, Indian Laser Association (ILA), Indian Association of Crystal Growth.

Dr. Samuel Paul David
Dr. Samuel is currently working a Senior Research at HiLASE Center, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, The Czech Republic. Dr. Samuel obtained his under and post-graduation from The American College, Madurai, India. He earned his Ph.D. degree in High temperature crystal growth of laser materials from Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University, India. He did his part of research work at University of Electro Communications, Japan under Japanese Govt fellowship. After his Ph.D. he joined as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA. He was a visiting researcher of Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. He also served as Assistant Professor of Physics in Crescent University and in RAMCO Institute of Technology, India. He has published more than 25 paper in highly reputed journals and 8 Book Chapters in International Publishers. He got several awards such as Monbugagakusho fellowship (Japanese Government), Einstein Award for proficiency in Physics, M.A. Thangaraj Award for the best student during his graduation and outstanding Reviewer. He act as an Editorial Board Member for Non-Metallic Material Science Journal.

Prof. Mogens Christensen
Education:

• 2006: Ph.D. (chemistry), Dept. of Chemistry, University of Aarhus (received 13.10.06).
• 2003: M.Sc. (materials physics and chemistry), Dept. of Chemistry, University of Aarhus.
• 2000: B.Sc. (physics and chemistry), University of Aarhus.

Academic experience / Reseach visits:

• 2021- Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2014-2021 Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2010-2014 Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 2008-2010: Post doc. at Aarhus University, Denmark (15 months)
• 2007-2008: Post doc. at Bragg Institute, ANSTO, Sydney, Australia (18 months)
• 2005: Visiting researcher at the Stucky Group at UCSB, California, US. (3 months)
• 2004: Assistant Researcher at SNBL, ESRF, Grenoble, France (12 months)
• 2002: Visiting researcher at Max-Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany (1½ months)
• 2000-2001: Followed two semesters of courses at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. (12 months)

Prof. Satoru Yoshimura
Prof. Satoru Yoshimura did his bachalor's and master's in Electronic Engineering from TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, JAPAN. He did his Ph.D in the field of Magnetic thin films (recording media) in the year 2002. Prof. Satoru Yoshimura has started his career as a research fellow and research associate till 2007. In 2007 he joined department of electronics Kyushu University as assistant professor. In 2008 he joined the Centre for Geo-environmental sciences as associate professor. At present he is the Director, Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology. Prof. Yoshimura has also worked at various prestigious institutions as guest researcher and adjunct professor capacity. He has published nearly 100 research articles in peer reviewed international journals. There are 22 patents to his credit and many awards too.

Prof. M.S. Ramachandra Rao obtained his Ph. D from Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur in 1988. Prof. Rao held various positions before IITM and still hold many of them. Few of which are - as a research scientist at CNRS, France, then as visiting fellow at TIFR Bombay, JSPS fellow and as visiting faculty at University of Maryland, USA, SIT, Tokyo. He has established Nano functional Materials Technology Centre (NFMTC) and DST-funded Solar Energy Harnessing Centre (DSEHC) at IITM. He was one of the pioneers of IITM Research Park and have successfully incubated a company. There are 15 patents and 4 technology transfers to his credit. He has published more than 265 articles in the peer reviewed international journals, completed 20 funded projects and presently hold 6 ongoing projects. There are numerus awards to his credit.

Prof. Subramanian Tamil Selvan
Ph.D., Chemistry in 1992 from CECRI Karaikudi, India. He has worked in the areas like Electrochemistry of Nickel-Cadmium Battery during his graduate studies. Further, he was a Humboldt Fellow, University of Ulm, Germany, JSPS Fellow, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. Then worked as a Research Fellow at School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia (2002).

Since then, he worked as Principal Research Scientist in Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore and He was also an Adjunct professor in Department Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore. Currently, he is working as a Senior Fellow (LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and he is also Director/ Chief Scientist, Alpha Biomedical Pte Ltd; Advisor, Bronx Holding, Singapore.

Dr. Tamil Selvan's current research areas include Nanomaterials for cancer and neurodegenerative applications, Nanomaterials for cancer and neurodegenerative applications.

Prof. Tamalika Banerjee
is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and a Full Professor of 'Spintronics of Functional Materials' in the Physics of Nanodevices group at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. She is also a Scientific Associate Investigator, FLEET, ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Australia. She is a Senior member of IEEE She studied Physics at Presidency University, Kolkata, India and obtained her PhD from the University of Madras, India. She was a Visiting Scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, MIT, USA and a PostDoctoral Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, before she joined the MESA+Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2009, she moved to the University of Groningen and since spring 2019, is a Full Professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials.
Her research group on ‘Spintronics of Functional Materials' studies spin transport in functional material interfaces involving complex-oxides and their integration with graphene and topological insulators, relevant for spin logic and reconfigurable spintronics architecture. Her current research focus is on Topological spintronics, with particular focus on studying strong correlation effects and topology in such quantum materials. A primary focus is on looking at new approaches to study spin and magnon transport by electrical field control, particularly relevant for reconfigurable spintronics architecture and for applications in neuromorphic computing.
Earlier, she pioneered a new technique, known as the Ballistic Electron Emission microscopy, to study spintronic devices at the nanometer scale which has been applied to different material systems and their devices.
She has edited a book on 'Oxide Spintronics' ‘Oxide interfaces- Charge and spin transport- Fundamentals and applications' and has published in several peer reviewed journals on topics from ion iradiation effects to oxide spintronics which is her present field of interest.
Her research is funded by NWO-VIDI, NWO-nano (FOM), NWO-DST and Dieptestrategie grants. She is a member of the Steering group of NanolabNL and of the NWO Domain Science working group on Physics for Technology and Instrumentation.

Dr. Sakshath Sadashivaiah Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany and studied Ultrafast phenomena on surfaces. Here is also got a Carl-Zeiss Fellowship. Further continued working in the Biophysics and Medical Physics group and started working in designing time resolved Nuclear resonance scattering experiment. Currently, Dr. Sakshath is a Senior Scientist Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany and works in the research area of ultra-fast phenomena in X-ray Physics group.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Best oral presentation: International conference on the applications of Mössbauer effect (2017).
• Fellowship of the Carl-Zeiss foundation for research (2013 – 2015).
• Joint UGC-CSIR Lectureship (NET) (2006).
• Bondade memorial physics lecture prize (2005).
• National top 1%: National physics examination for class 12 students conducted by IAPT (2000).
• Referee of scientific journals.

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS

• 20 Publications in international journals and conferences
• 10 Invited talks
• 9 Contributed talks in international conferences.
• 15 poster presentations

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Prof. R. Mahendiran received PhD in physics from Indian Institute of Science in 1997. He was awarded with Tholouse Medal for the best thesis by IISc in recognition of his original contributions to the emerging field of colossal magnetoresistance in oxides. He joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) in year 2005 as an assistant professor and promoted to associate professor in 2012. Prior to joining NUS, he worked as a post doctoral fellow/senior researcher at several places: University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain (1997-1999), Laboratoire CRISIMAT, Caen, France (1999-2001), Pennsylvania State University , State College, USA (2001-2003), ERATO Researcher at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan (2003 to 2005).
He has published 170 papers in peer reviewed journals, received more than 5200 citations (source: ISI web of knowledge) and has an H-index of 37. He was awarded NUS-Young Investigator Award in 2007 and served as the co-chairman of spintronics group at NUSNII, NUS. He is a member of Spintronics Consortium, Singapore.
He is interested in magnetic oxides and alloys. His current research focus on radio and microwave magnetotransport in oxide/metal interfaces, resistive non-volatile memory, multiferroics, spin related thermoelectric effects, giant magnetocaloric and magnetostrictive materials. He has given over 50 invited talks and presentations in international conferences.

Prof. Satheesh Krishnamurthy
Professor Satheesh Krishnamurthy has over 20 years of research experience in energy within academia and industry. He specialises in the laser and plasma processing of renewable energy materials and chemical vapour deposition of semiconductor nanomaterials. His research is widely published with over 70 publications in scientific journals, and book chapters, some with an impact factor of 8 to 35, and over 8,000 citations. He is committed to the practical application and sustainability of research through the commercialisation of renewable energy technologies and strengthening the capacity of academics and entrepreneurs in developing countries. Professor Krishnamurthy has successfully assembled, led and managed many multi-disciplinary, multi-country research collaborations between UK/Irish and Southern hemisphere academic, NGO and private sector partners to address the intractable global challenge of access to clean, reliable and affordable energy.

Dr. Sivakumar Vaidyanathan
obtained his Bachelor and Master degree in chemistry from Muthurangam Govt Arts College - affiliated to University of Madras. After working for one and half years as a research fellow/synthetic chemist in the field of fuel cells/organic synthesis, Dr. Sivakumar moved to Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), to pursue doctoral studies. In 2007, he received his Doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. U. V. Varadaraju. His doctoral thesis focused on Lanthanide luminescence in mixed Metal Oxides and Silicates.
After completing Ph.D. in 2007, he worked as a Brain Korea 21 Post Doctoral Research fellow at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea from April 2007 to March 2009 in the field of Molecular materials for display and lighting applications and then, from April 2009 to April 2010 worked in the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Saclay, France in the field of OLEDs (Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of lanthanide containing Molecular complexes and Metallo polymers for organic or polymer light emitting diodes). His doctoral work was adjudged the best thesis in Inorganic/Analytical Chemistry for the year 2007 by IIT-Madras and awarded Prof. Alfred Werner medal. After spending a year in NIT Calicut as a Faculty in the Department of Chemistry, He has moved to Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Rourkela. Currently he is associate professor and he has published >75 publication (reputed journals) and 5 book chapters.
Guided PhD students – 6
Ongoing – 6
Projects – completed 4 ongoing 1
Many awards including BRNS, DST, Inspire young scientist award.

Dr. S. Srinath
Dr. S. Srinath is working as a Professor in School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, India. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics from Osmania University and M.Phil., Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad. Dr. Srinath has worked as Scientist “SD” in Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gujarat in 2001. Dr. Srinath worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Argonne National laboratory, U. S. A. (2002-2004) and University of South Florida (2004-2006) before joining School of Physics, University of Hyderabad in 2006 as an Assistant Professor and is a full Professor in the School of Physics, University of Hyderabad since 2016.

Dr. Vengatesan Singaram
Dr. Vengatesan Singaram is currently working as a senior scientist in CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India. He has received his B. Sc degree in Chemistry from Bharathidasan University, Trichy and M. Sc in Applied Chemistry from Anna University, Chennai. He has also obtained M. Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi. Later, he completed his Ph.D degree in the research field of PEM fuel cells at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. Further, he carried out post-doctoral research at University of Waterloo, Canada for more than two years in durability assessment of PEM fuel cells. He has more than 15 years of research experience and expertise in the arena of material synthesis, polymer chemistry and electrochemistry. His research theme mainly focuses on the development of ion-exchange membranes/separators for water electrolysers, fuel cells and flow batteries. He has also been working in the development of polymer composite fibers, scaffolds for biomedical applications. As a credential to his scientific research, he has published more than 25 articles in reputed SCI journals and filed 1 US patent and 2 Indian patent in his research field. He has attended more than 50 international and national conferences/symposia and presented his research work. Moreover, he has been serving as a reviewer of many international reputed journals as well as DAC member of research scholars. He is currently an honorary fellow of the Australian institute of high energetic materials, Australia.

Dr. Hari Krishna KODURU
Dr. Hari Krishna KODURU did his Master of Philosophy in Physics from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi. During his M. Phil he carried out his research work on “Pulsed laser deposited LiMn2O4 Thin films for Cathode application in Li – ion battery”. He completed Ph.D. degree from University of Calabria, Calabria, Italy during 2012-2015. During his Ph.D. he carried out a joint research works on “Hyperbolic Metamaterials for the enhancement of spontaneous emission application” under the guidance of Prof. Giuseppe Strangi, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, Cleveland, USA and on “Solid nanocomposite polymer electrolyte membranes for sodium ion battery applications” under the guidance of Prof. Nicola Scaramuzza, UNICAL, ITALY. He has the ability work in metal oxide thin films and polymer nanocomposite membranes using different fabrication techniques. He has published 30 research articles in reputed national and international journals. He is the first Indian, who got selected for Bulgarian country prestigious National Fellowship called Petar Beron i NIE and to work as an Experienced Researcher in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, Sofia.

Dr. Weijie Song
Dr. Weijie Song is currently a research professor in Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China. He obtained PhD degree in physical chemistry in 2002 from Tsinghua University. He continued his postdoc study in National Institute for Materials Scicence, Japan for four and a half years before joining CAS as a research professor and group leader of flexible electronic materials. Currently, he is mainly working on materials and devices for flexible electronics, including transparent conductive materials, anti-reflection coatings, thin film photovoltaics, smart windows, and wearable sensors. He has published over 220 paper in international journals, with over 3200 citations and h-index of 29. He also holds over 60 patents.

Prof. Xiao Renshaw Wang
Xiao Renshaw Wang is currently Nanyang Assistant Professor in School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). He received his Bachelor degree from Shandong University (SDU, China) in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore (NUS, Singapore) in 2012. Subsequently, he continued his postdoctoral research at University of Twente (Netherlands), Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT, USA) and SMART (Singapore). His research interests include oxide fabrication, oxide electrochemistry and oxide spintronics/electronics. His group website is : http://renshawlab.com