Dr. Srikanta Moharana is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Chemistry from the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, India. He has received his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He was awarded Prof. GB Behera Best PhD thesis award under the banner of Orissa chemical society, India. His research experience as well as research interests, lies in graphene, carbon nanotubes and ceramic based polymer nanocomposites synthesis and Characterization for advanced energy storage applications. He is a life member of Orissa Chemical Society.
Dr. Tanmaya Badapanda currently works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, C.V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar. He has completed his master’s degree and PhD from NIT, Rourkela in the field of Material Science. He has more than 12 years of research and teaching experience and has published around 80 papers in journals of international repute. He was nominated for the Young Scientist Award (2014 & 2015) by the Indian National Science Association, Delhi and a recipient of the Young Scientist Award in 2013 given by the Odisha Physical Society. He is a reviewer of reputed journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley etc. and has received an outstanding reviewer award from Elsevier and the American Ceramic Society. He is a life member of the Indian Association of Physics Teachers and Orissa Physical Society. He is a Principal Investigator of the CSIR-funded project on polymer composites for embedded capacitors. His research interests include: ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, energy harvesters, polymer composites.
Santosh Kumar Satpathy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. His areas of research are ferroelectrics, advanced ceramic materials, multiferroics, polymers, ceramic composites, and other ceramic materials for the application of perovskite materials.
Dr. Ram Naresh Mahaling is a Reader in the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University since 2017. He has received his Ph.D. in Polymeric and Elastomeric Nanocomposites from the Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and 14 years of research experience and has published more than 55 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and authored three book chapters. His current areas of research include the synthesis of perovskite-type metal oxide (BaTiO3, BiFeO3, CaTiO3, etc) based polymer composite materials for electronic applications and energy storage, nanocomposites and structure-properties relationships. He has visited the Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany, and University of Orleans, France for two-and-half years as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He has received three (03) research projects from different funding agency, (01) Government of Odisha, 01(UGC New Delhi) and 01 (DST SERB, New Delhi). Twelve (12) M.Phil students and two (02) Ph.D students have been awarded under his guidance.
Dr. Rajneesh Kumar is an Associate Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P, India since October 2017. He earned his M.Sc from Banaras Hindu University in the specialization of Nuclear Physics and has completed his Ph.D at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India in the field of plasma antennas. After he earned his Ph.D, he was a post-doctoral fellow at LAPALCE, University of Toulouse France where he worked on plasmas as metamaterials and plasma photonic crystals for microwave invisibility and post-doctoral research associate in Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE where he worked on plasma technology for waste to energy applications. He was a project scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. India and worked on pulsed laser deposition systems for thin films and then became an Assistant Professor in Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, M.P., India. He has co-authored 30 articles in reputed international journals. He is a life member of the Plasma Science Society of India.
