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We have expertise in different areas in our advisory board.
• Dr. P.N. Pandit
• Abhijeet Bhattacharya
• Dr. G. U. Kulkarni
• Dr. Jayesh R. Bellare
• Koshal Agarwal
• Amitabh Agarwal
• Dr. G. U. Kulkarni -
He is the senior scientist and known personality in Nanotechnology
fraternity in India and he has held key position on our board
of Advisor’s panel in the year 2005-06. Initially, he
carried out postdoctoral research at the Indian Institute
of Science and then moved to Cardiff University, UK. He joined
as a faculty member at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research, Bangalore in 1995 and is now an Associate
Professor in the Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit.
He has been a visiting Scientist at Cardiff University and
Tokyo University.
:: HONOURS / AWARDS ::
· Sudborough medal and the Best Thesis award from
Chemical Sciences Division, Indian Institute of Science, 1993.
· Material Research Society of India Lecture medal,
1999.
· Sir C. V. Raman Young Scientist award, 1999.
· B.M. Birla Science prize in Chemistry, 2002.
· Chemical Research Society of India Lecture medal,
2003.
:: ACHIEVMENTS ::
· He has over 100 international publications and
has contributions in 5 books.
· He is a member of the Editorial board of Bulletin
of Materials Science. He is an active reviewer for many international
journals.
:: EDUCATION ::
· M. Sc - Solid State Physics - Karnataka University,
1986.
· Ph. D - Solid State and Structural Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Science, 1992.
· Postdoctoral research at Indian Institute of Science,
1992-1993.
· Postdoctoral research at Cardiff University, UK 1993-95.
· Visiting Scientist at Cardiff University during 1998,
2001.
· Visiting Scientist at Tokyo University, 2004.
:: CURRENT INTERESTS ::
· Supramolecular assemblies.
· Mesoscalar Organization of well-defined metal nanocrystals.
· Ultrathin metal nanocrystalline films at liquid-liquid
interfaces.
· Hybrid bilayers of metal thiolates.
· Nanostructures using pulsed laser deposition.
· Dip-pen nanolithography using colloidal inks.
· Electrical measurements on molecules and nanostructures
using scanning tunneling microscope and conducting atomic
force microscope.
· Charge density in conducting molecules.
· Organic NLO systems as well as many aspects of hydrogen
bonding.
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