Affiliations
Department of Physics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
Department of Physics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India
About the authors
Dr Rajnish Kurchania is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) UK, Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Chartered Scientist (CSci). He is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Physics at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India. He has held various administrative responsibilities such as Associate Dean (PG and PhD) and Head of the Department. His earlier appointments include Reader, Associate Professor in the Physics Department at RGPV, Bhopal, Senior Project Leader (Technology) with The Welding Institute (TWI), Port Talbot, UK, Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, and the University of Bath, UK. He established a University Teaching Department (UTD) in the area of Nanotechnology at the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV) Bhopal, and served as the Founder Head of the School of Nanotechnology RGPV. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Leeds in 1998 and was awarded his MSc in Physics from Barkatullah University, Bhopal in 1991. He is a recipient of the Overseas Research Student (ORS) Award from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) of the Universities of the UK and the Tetley-Lupton Scholarship from the University of Leeds to support his doctoral studies at the University of Leeds. He was appointed as Senior Visiting Research Fellow by the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath, UK. He has authored over 100 peer reviewed research papers in international journals and conferences of repute. He has guided twelve PhD and fifty-six MTech students so far. His research interests include advanced functional materials, ferroelectric thin films, photocatalytic materials, solar photovoltaics, non-destructive testing, and computational materials science. He is a life member of the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), and Vigyan Bharti (VIBHA). He has established valuable working relationships with various academic institutions and industries in UK, USA, India and Russia. He received funding and successfully completed a number of externally funded research projects from prestigious funding agencies such as: Going Global Partnerships Collaborative Grant funded by the British Council, project partners: University of Bath UK, MANIT Bhopal, IIT Madras, SPAs, IIT Roorkee, India; DST-SERB Delhi, India; the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), London, UK; the British Council UK–India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI phase-II) for collaborative research with the University of Bath and IIT Delhi; the Russian Foundation of Basic Research and the Department of Science and Technology (RFBR-DST) in collaboration with JEC Jaipur and the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow.
Dr Oroosa Subohi completed her post-graduate degree in Physics at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 2000 and was awarded her PhD (Physics) by the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India, in 2015. She has authored more than 25 articles on ferroelectric and multiferroic ceramics in journals of international repute and has contributed an invited book chapter. She has guided five students for their master's dissertation and is currently supervising PhD scholars. She is a life member of the Materials Research Society of India. Currently, she is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India.
