Curriculum Vitae. Research Interests: Education. Awards /Achievements

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Curriculum Vitae PAWAN KUMAR Assistant Professor (Contract) Dept. of Physics, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur Office: Room No. 614, 1 st Floor (UG Lab), Dept.

1 Curriculum Vitae PAWAN KUMAR Assistant Professor (Contract) Dept. of Physics, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur Office: Room No. 614, 1 st Floor (UG Lab), Dept. of Physics Mob: , pawan@iitp.ac.in Web Page: Research Interests: Condensed Matter Physics Materials design through confinement & strain engineering During my PhD period, I was particularly involved in understanding the origin and the evolution of structural and magnetic phase transitions in Bismuth Ferrite. PhD Advisor: Dr. Manoranjan Kar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna) Education Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Patna 2015 Submitted * CPI of Course Work for Ph.D /10 M.Sc. Patna university % B.Sc. Patna Science College, Patna university % XII th Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Bihiya % X th Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Bihiya % Awards /Achievements Joint CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Eligibility For Lectureship (NET) Dec 2012, All India Rank in UGC JRF: 168 Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-Physics) 2011, All India Rank: 377 Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST-Physics) 2011, All India Rank: rd Rank in Patna University (M.Sc. Physics Exam 2011) Madhava Maharupi Physics Scholarship ( ) School Topper in class X and XII Best Paper Award, International Conference, NANOCON 014 Best Poster Award, National Conference, IOQO 014 Peer Reviewed International Journals : 17 AIP conference proceedings : 06 Conference presentations : 10 (International) and 05 (National) Workshops/Schools : 08 Member of Professional Bodies: Magnetic Society of India, Indian Physics Association 1

2 Expertise/Skills: Research Facilities Developed: Set-up with online data acquisition software based on LabVIEW for the measurement of 1. ac susceptibility as a function of temperature ( K) 2. Resistivity and Impedance Spectroscopy ( K) Expertise in various Laboratory Techniques: (A) In-house Instruments Rotating anode 18 kw Rigaku (TTRX-III) X-ray diffractometer Hitachi S-4800 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy Seki Technotron Corp. Micro-Raman spectrometer PerkinElmer spectrum 400 FT-IR spectrometer Radiant Technology Multiferroic test system N4L PSM 1735 Impedance analyzer PerkinElmer DSC 8000 Differential Scanning Calorimeter PerkinElmer STA 6000 Thermal Analysis Excel Instruments Pulsed Laser Deposition PerkinElmer LAMBDA 35 UV-Visible spectrophotometer Edmund Bühler GmbH MAM-1Compact Arc Melter RETSCH PM-100 Planetary Ball Milling (B) Instruments at other Institutions Synchrotron XRD at Indus Synchrotrons Utilization Division in Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) Indore. X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy at RRCAT Indore. Neutron Diffraction at Dhruva reactor, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai Computational Skills Good knowledge in crystal structure simulation and refinement Operating systems used: Windows, Linux Software Packages used: Origin for scientific graphing and data analysis FullProf for Multiphase Rietveld Analysis and Simulation LabVIEW for Data Acquisition MATLAB for numerical analysis 2

3 Teaching Experience: Teaching assistance for the course PH110 About PH110: This general physics laboratory course is taught to 1 st year students of B. Tech. at IIT Patna Teaching assistance for the course NT502 About NT502: This physics course of analytical techniques is taught to 1 st year students of M. Tech. (Nanoscience and Technology) at IIT Patna Teaching assistance for the courses MS506 and MS516 About MS506 and MS516: These respective courses of Microstructure and Phase Analysis Laboratory and Materials Characterisation Laboratory are taught to 1 st year students of M. Tech. (Nanoscience and Technology) at IIT Patna PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed International Journals: 1. P. Kumar, N. Shankhwar, A. Srinivasan and M. Kar, Oxygen Octahedra Distortion induced Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Bi 1-x Ca x Fe 1-x Mn x O 3 Ceramics, Journal of Applied Physics, 117 (2015) P. Kumar, C. Panda and M. Kar, Effect of Rhombohedral to Orthorhombic Transition on Magnetic and Dielectric Properties of La and Ti co-substituted BiFeO 3, Smart Material and Structures, 24 (2015) P. Kumar and M. Kar, Effect of Structural Phase Transition on Magnetic and Optical Properties of cosubstituted Bismuth Ferrite, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 31(2015) P. Kumar and M. Kar, Effect of Structural Transition on Magnetic and Dielectric Properties of La and Mn co-substituted BiFeO 3 Ceramics, Material Chemistry and Physics 148 (2014) P. Kumar and M. Kar, Effect of Structural Transition on Magnetic and Optical Properties of Ca and Ti co-substituted BiFeO 3 Ceramics, Journal of Alloys and Compound 584 (2014) P. Kumar and M. Kar, Tuning of Net Magnetic Moment in BiFeO 3 Multiferroics by Co-substitution of Nd and Mn, Physica B 448 (2014) P. Kour, P. Kumar, S. K. Sinha and M. Kar, Study of Dielectric and Impedance spectroscopy of La Substituted Nanocrystalline Pb(Zr 0.52Ti 0.48)O 3 Ceramics, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 26 (2015) V. Kumar, S. Kumari, P. Kumar, M. Kar, L. Kumar, Structural Analysis by Rietveld Method and its Correlation with Optical Properties of Nanocrystalline Zinc Oxide, Advanced Materials Letters 6(2) (2015) S. Kumari, V. Kumar, P. Kumar, M. Kar and L. Kumar, Structural and Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline Yttrium Substituted Cobalt Ferrite Synthesized by the Citrate Precursor Technique, Advance Powder Technology 26(1) (2015) L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Low Temperature and High Magnetic Field Dependence Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline Cobalt Ferrite, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 27 (2014) L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Non-linear Behaviour of Coercivity to the Maximum Applied Field in La 3+ substituted Nanocrystalline Cobalt Ferrite, Physica B 448 (2014) P. Kour, P. Kumar, S. K. Sinha and M. Kar, Electrical Properties of Calcium Modified PZT (52/48) Ceramics, Solid State Communications 190 (2014) 33. 3

4 13. L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Cation Distribution by Rietveld Technique and Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of Zn Substituted Nanocrystalline Cobalt Ferrite, Journal of Alloys Compound 551 (2013) L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Effect of Non Magnetic Substitution on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Spinel Cobalt Ferrite (CoFe 2-x Al x O 4 ) Ceramics, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 24(8) (2013) L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Comparative studies on Magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant of CoFe 1.5 M 0.5 O 4, M=Al & Cr, Physics Express 3 (2013) L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Influence of Mn substitution on crystal structure and magnetocrystalline anisotropy of nanocrystalline Co 1-xMn xfe 2-2xMn 2xO 4, Applied Nanoscience 3 (2013) L. Kumar, P. Kumar, A. Narayan and M. Kar, Rietveld Analysis of XRD Patterns of Different Size Nanocrystalline Cobalt Ferrite, International Nano Letters, 3 (2013) 8. Peer Reviewed AIP Conference Proceeding: 1. P. Kumar and M. Kar, Double Crystal Symmetries in Morphotropic Phase Boundary of Substituted BiFeO 3 Ceramics, AIP Conf. Proc (2014) P. Kumar and M. Kar, Effect of excess bismuth on Synthesis of Bismuth Ferrite, AIP Conf. Proc (2013) P. Kour, P. Kumar, M. Kar and S. K. Sinha, Effect of Strontium Substitution on dielectric constants of PZT Nanocrystalline Ceramics, AIP Conf. Proc (2013) P. Kumar, M. Kar, A. V. Sanchela, C. V. Tomy and A. D. Thakur, Nanostructured Zinc Oxide as a Prospective Room Temperature Thermoelectric Material, AIP Conf. Proc (2013) P. Kour, P. Kumar, M. Kar and S. K. Sinha, Enhance of Ferroelectric Properties by Modifying Pb 2+ side by Mg 2+ in PZT (52/48) Ceramics, AIP Conf. Proc (2013) C. Panda, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Structural Analysis and Electrical Properties of Bi 1-x La x Fe 1-x Ti x O 3 Ceramics. AIP Conf. Proc (2013) International Conference Presentations: 1. P. Kumar, A. K. Sinha, A. Sagdeo, M. N. Singh and M. Kar, Comparative study on oxygen octahedral tilting induced structural transition in co-substituted BiFeO 3 ceramics, 5 th conference on Neutron Scattering (CNS-2015), BARC Mumbai (Maharashtra), February 2-4, P. Kumar, R. Kumar and M. Kar, Enhanced Magnetic Properties near MPB in Ho and Mn cosubstituted Nanocrystalline BiFeO 3, NANOCON 2014, Pune (Maharastra) October 14-15, L. Kumar, S. Kumari, V. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Structural and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Substituted Nanocrystalline Cobalt Ferrite, International Conference on Electron Microscopy & XXXV Annual Meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI-2014), University of Delhi, India, July 9-11, 2014,. 4. S. Greculeasa, V. Kuncser, G. Schinteie, L. Kumar, P. Kumar, B. Sahoo and M. Kar. Magnetic and Mössbauer spectroscopy study of Al and Mn substituted nanocrystalline Ni ferrites, Electroceramics XIV Conference, Romania, June 16-20, P. Kour, P. Kumar, M. Kar and S. K. Sinha, Effect of Neodynium Doping on the Dielectric and Impendance of PZT Nanoceramics, IUMRS-ICA, 2013, IISc Bangalore, Dec 16-20, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Weak Ferromagnetism in Nd and Mn codoped BiFeO 3 Multiferroic, MagMA IIT Guwahati, Dec 05-07,

5 7. P. Kumar and M. Kar, Effect of Structural transition on Magnetic Properties of La and Mn cosubstituted Bismuth Ferrite, SPPS-2013, ISM Dhanbad, Nov 18-20, P. Kumar, R. Kumar and M. Kar, Enhanced Magnetic and Dielectric Properties of Ca 2+ and Ti 4+ codoped Bismuth Ferrite, EEMR CSIR - Institute of Minerals and materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, Aug L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Cations Distribution studies in Spinel Ferrites from XRD pattern by Rietveld Method, ICWNCN Delhi University. March 13-16, L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Influence of non-magnetic Substitution on the Cation Distribution, Crystal Structure and Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of Nanocrystalline Spinel Cobalt Ferrite, ICNANO-2011, Delhi University. Dec National Conference Presentations: 1. P. Kumar and M. Kar, Raman Spectroscopy and Direct Band Gap Studies on co-substituted Bismuth Ferrite, IOQO-2014, IIT Patna, Nov 7-8, M. Kar and P. Kumar, Multiple Crystal Symmetries in Nanocrystalline Bi 1-x Nd x Fe 1-x Mn x O 3 Multiferroics, ETCMP T. M. Bhagalpur University, Jan 17-18, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Ferromagnetism in Bismuth Ferrite by co-doping in Bi and Fe sites, CMDAYS-2013, NIT Rourkela, Rourkela. Aug 29-31, P. Kour, P. Kumar, M. Kar and S. K. Sinha, Enhancement of Dielectric Constant by Calcium Substitution in Nanocrystalline PZT Ceramics, CMDAYS BIT Meshra, Ranchi. Aug 29-31, L. Kumar, P. Kumar and M. Kar, Effect of Y 3+ Substitution on the Structural and Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of Nanocrystalline Cobalt Ferrite, RTCST- 2012, IIT Patna, March 3-4, Workshops/Schools attended: 1. Pre-conference school on neutrons as probes of condensed matter, BARC Mumbai Jan 27-31, Indo-Japan Workshop on Magnetism at Nanoscale -2015, NISER Bhubaneswar, Jan 9-12, DST-SERC School on Advanced Functional Magnetic Materials, Goa Univ. Feb 03-21, A School on Basics of Magnetism and Investigations of Magnetic Properties of Materials using Synchrotron Radiation, Mar 24 28, 2014, RRCAT Indore. 5. National Instruments LabVIEW Basic Workshop on Data Acquisition, IIT Patna, Mar 3, Patents and IPR Workshop, IIT Patna, Mar 3, ICWNCN-2012, Delhi University. Mar 13, A National Workshop on Condense Matter Physics, NIT Rourkela, Aug 29, 2013 Personal Information: Parents : Father: Satyanand Singh and Mother: Prabha Devi Permanent Address : Vill: Sattar, P.O.: Saray, Dist: Patna (Bihar), Pin code Sex : Male Marital Status : Unmarried Nationality : Indian Date of Birth :

6 Academic Web Profiles: References: Dr. Manoranjan Kar (Supervisor) (PhD, IIT Guwahati) Assistant Professor Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Patna Patliputra Colony, Patna Phone: Fax: Dr. Ayash Kanto Mukherjee (PhD, IISc Bangalore) Assistant Professor Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Patna Patliputra Colony, Patna Phone: Fax: Declaration: Dr. Naveen Kumar Nishchal (PhD, IIT Delhi) Assistant Professor Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Patna Patliputra Colony, Patna Phone: Fax: I hereby declare that the above information furnished by me is true to the best of my knowledge. (PAWAN KUMAR) 6

Curriculum Vitae. Education: Professional Experience:

Curriculum Vitae. Education: Professional Experience: Dr. Lawrence Kumar Assistant Professor Centre for Nanotechnology Central University of Jharkhand Ranchi-835205, INDIA Email: lawrence.kumar@cuj.ac.in lawrencecuj@gmail.com Mobile No: +91-9771630347 Curriculum