SMST - Faculty

Faculty Members


Area of Interest: Smart Materials, Structural Phase Transitions, Synthesis and Characterization of Advanced Ceramics.

Dr. Bhola Nath Pal
Professor

bnpal.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8174917900


Area of Interest: Optoelectronic devices; Memory, switching and synaptic devices; Energy harvesting devices; Plasmonic thin film & devices.

Dr. Chandana Rath
Professor

crath.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9451058153


Area of Interest: Nanomagnetics, Multiferroics, Ion Irradiation, Nanostructured Materials and Applications, Bioceramics nanocomposites, Thin film Devices, Energy storage materials, Dilute Magnetic Materials.

Dr. Chandan Upadhyay
Professor

cupadhyay.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-8005304675, +91-542-7165524


Area of Interest: Quantum Materials, Ferroic and Multiferroic Materials, Magnetic Materials, Multifunctional Materials, Computational Materials Science.

Dr. Pralay Maiti
Professor

pmaiti.mst@itbhu.ac.in

+91-9935141321


Area of Interest: Polymer Nanocomposites, Biomaterials, Self-assembly, Biodegradable polymer, Polymer for renewable resource, Radiation Resistance polymer, Fuel cell membrane, Polymer electronics.

Dr. Rajiv Prakash
Professor

rprakash.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-9935033011


Area of Interest: Conducting Polymers & Composites, Organic Semiconducting Devices, Sensors & Biosensors and Electroanalytical Techniques.

Dr. Ashish Kumar Mishra
Associate Professor

akmishra.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-7165516


Area of Interest: Carbon and other 2D nanomaerials (TMDCs, MXene), Electron microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Optoelectronic devices, Energy devices, Design of sensors, gas capture units and water filters.

Dr. Nikhil Kumar
Associate Professor

nikhil.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-7165498


Area of Interest:Mechanical behavior of materials, High strain rate testing, Novel methods for fatigue and fracture life prediction, Materials characterization, Texture of materials, Simulation for deformation of materials, Severe plastic deformation techniques, High specific strength steel, Additive manufacturing.

Dr. Ravi Panwar
Associate Professor

ravi.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-7165530


Area of Interest: Flexible Electrical & Electronic Materials; Stealth Technology; EMI Shielding Techniques; Heterogeneous Composites; Metamaterials/Metasurfaces; Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSSs); Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs); Antenna & Radome Technologies; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Driven Discovery, and Optimization of Materials and Structures tailored for Next-Generation 5G and 6G Technologies.

Dr. Sanjay Singh
Associate Professor

ssingh.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-7165505


Area of Interest: Heusler Compounds, Spintronics, Topological and Quantum Materials, X-ray and neutron diffraction, Magnetism, Multiferroic Device, Shape Memory Alloys, Solid State Cooling, Phase Transition.

Dr. Shrawan Kr Mishra
Associate Professor

shrawan.mst@iitbhu.ac.in

+91-542-7165503


Area of Interest: Quantum Materials and Technology, Magnetic Materials and Confined Magnetism, Magnetic Memory and Spintronic Devices, Multiferroics and Magneto-optical Materials, Smart Materials and Sensors, Resistive Switching Based Neuromorphic Devices, Magnetic Imaging and Spectroscopy, X-ray and Neutron Diffraction /Scattering Techniques, Spin-Related Phenomena at Low Temperatures, Charge, Lattice, and Spin Dynamics, Synchrotron and free electron laser methods.


Area of Interest: Computational Materials Engineering, AI in Materials Engineering, High Entropy Materials, Archaeometallurgy.

Dr. Uday Shankar
Assistant Professor

udayshankar.mst@itbhu.ac.in

+91-7797435570


Area of Interest: Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Processing, Polymer Blend, Rubber Technology, Functional Nanomaterials, Eco-Friendly and Biodegradable Green Composite, Biobased Oil Spill Absorbent.

Dr. Dhananjai Pandey
dpandey.mst@iitbhu.ac.in
Dr. Shri Ram Singh
srs.mst@iitbhu.ac.in
Prof. Jitendra Kumar
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S.no. Name Tenure
1

Prof. Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Dept. of  Engineering,Science & Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,USA

23.06.2021 - 22.06.2023
2

Prof. Takaaki Manaka

Dept. of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

23.06.2021 - 22.06.2023
3

Prof. Sanjay Mathur

Frechener Weg 65, 50859 Koeln, Germany

23.06.2021 - 22.06.2023
4

Prof. Shyam S. Pandey

Dept. of Biological Functions & Systems, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

23.06-.2021 - 22.06.2023
5

Prof. Joydeep Dutta

Functional Materials Group, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Dept. of Applied Physics, School of Engineering Science, Stockholm, Sweden

23.06.2021 - 22.06.2023
6

Prof. R. Vasant Kumar

Materials Science & Metallurgy/Physics & Chemistry, University of Cambridge

23-06-2021 - 22-06-2023