Qualifications
Ph.D. (IIT Delhi), Postdoc (Kent State University, Ohio, USA)
Current Courses Taught
UG Courses: Basic Physics-I for Bio Sciences; Engineering Physics (Lab); Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy; Applied Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy; Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal
PG Courses: Quantum Mechanics; Statistical Mechanics; Advanced Materials Physics Lab
Research Interests
Soft Materials (liquid crystals, hydrogels, photomobile polymers), Nanomaterials, Soft matter nanocomposites, Synchrotron X-ray Scatterng, Sensors, Photonics and Displays
Teaching Interests
Soft Condensed Matter Physics; Quantum Mechanics; Statistical Mechanics
Professional Affiliations
(i) International Liquid Crystal Society: Life time member (ID: 1713),
(ii) Indian Liquid Crystal Society: Life time member (ID: L-368),
(iii) Optical Society of America (OSA): March 2008 to present (ID: 966578) and
(iv) American Physical Society (APS): December 2011 to present (ID: 61117068).
Professional Activities
(1) Editor, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Taylor & Fancis, UK (December 2025 onwards)
(2) Editorial Advisory Board Member, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Taylor & Fancis, UK (August-November 2025 )
(3) Convenor of 27th National Conference on Liquid Crystals 2020 (NCLC2020), 21-23 December 2020 at Amity University Uttar Pradesh Noida.
(4) Associate Editor of Optical Data Processing and Storage, De Gruyter, Warsaw, Poland (15th April 2019 to 22 December 2020)
(5) Guest Editor of Special Issue ‘Liquid crystal nanocomposites and their photonic applications’ in Crystals journal (IF: 2.70), 2019
(6) Review Editor of Frontiers of Physics (IF: 3.1), Scopus and SCI Indexed, Frontiers, Lausanne, Switzerland (13th June 2019 to 30th June 2025) (7) Regular Referee of top journals of OSA, Elsevier, Springer Nature, IOP, Taylor & Francis, AIP, ACS, RSC, Wiley and MDPI publishers (8) Session Chair, Invited Talks, Oral and Poster presentations (45) in International and National Conferences
Other Achievements
(1) ILCS Silver Medal Award-2025 by the Indian Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS), Benglaru, India
(2) Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2025, Nanotechnology, Institute of Physics (IOP), UK
(3) One of the top 1% most cited papers in IOP publishing’s portfolio of journals from 2022-2024;https://accreditations.ioppublishing.org/2848d47b-68a6-4c0e-9b23-fa89f1780107#acc.AyDiY4Mo (4) h-index: 28 and citations: 2287 (Scopus)
(5) Best paper presentation award at International e-Conference on Recent Advances in Material Science and Nanotechnology (RAMAN 2021), Dept. of Physics, Arts, Commerce and Science College, Maregaon, in association with Dept. of Physics, P. N. College, Pusad, India, 7-9 February 2021.
(6) Awarded the project (SR/FTP/PS-001/2011) entitled “Tunable optoelectronic features of nanomaterials doped ferroelectric liquid crystals” submitted under SERC Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientist in Physical Sciences, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, New Delhi 110016, India (Cost: 24.5 Lacs, Duration: 3 years).
(7) Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (Duration: 3 years) in Physical Sciences, August 2011, University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi 110002, India.
(8) 6 months fellowship under ‘Young Indian Researchers’ program from Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR), Italy, 15 May to 14 November (2008).
(9) Awarded JRF/NET (Junior Research Fellowship/National Eligibility Test) conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, June (2005).
(10) GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in Physics, Percentile: 95.34 and All India Rank (AIR): 169, conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India (2005).
