Neeraj Khare

Prof. Neeraj Khare

Professor, Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Awards/Achievements

v  Fellowship:

·      Fellow of National Academy of Science India (NASI) from 2011.

·      Fellow of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM) from 2015.

·      Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP), UK from 2005.

 

v  Prizes/Awards:

·      IIT Delhi "Lifetime Achievement Award" for the year 2023.

·      "Material Research Society of India - MRSI" Material Science Senior Award for the year 2023.

·  Best poster award: Rajni Kandari, Mamta Dahiya, and Neeraj Khare, "Study of transport properties of YBCO step edge Josephson junction device", international conference on "Materials for Energy and Sustainable Development (MESD-2023)" on 27-29 October 2023.

·  "Excellent Presentation Award" to Mohit Khosya and Neeraj Khare "Constructing ZnIn2S4/PANI Nanocomposite to Enhance Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting" 11th International Conference on Nano and Materials Science (ICNMS 2023)" Singapore, Jan 13-15 (2023) .

·   Top cited paper award of 2022 by IOP Publishing (Author of top 1% most cited papers in IOP Publishing's Portfolio of Journals 2019 - 2021).

·   Best Poster Award: Mamta and Neeraj Khare "Investigation of Excess Conductivity region in YBCO: xNaNbO3 (x = 0, 0.5, 1 wt%) Nanocomposite Thin Films" 33rd AGM of MRSI and 4th Materials Conclave IUMRS-ICA 2022, Dec. 19-23 (2022).

·    IIT Delhi Faculty Basic Research Award, Jan. 2022.

·      Institute Chair Professor, IIT Delhi from July 2019.

·      Material Research Society of India – MRSI - ICSC Award for the year 2018.

·      Best Poster award in iCOLD - 2017 conference organized by Department of Physics, IIT Madras.

·      Best Presentation award in 2017 International Conference on Green Energy and Applications (ICGEA 2017) held in Nanyong Technological University, Singapore.

·      Platinum Jubilee lecture award of Material Science Section of Indian Science Congress Association in 2006.

·      ‘Rising personalities of India award’ by International Penguin Publishing House’ for the year 2005.

·      Rajib Goyal prize for young Scientist in the area of Physics for the year 2002.

·      Material Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal award for the year 1998.

·      Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 1991 Young Scientist Award in Physical Sciences (given by Prime Minister of India).

·      Indian Science Congress Association 1983 Young Scientist Award of Physics.

·      First prize of 23rd All India Hindi Competition for Essay in Science & Technology organized by Kendriya Sachivalaya Hindi Parishad for the year 2000.

·      Merit Scroll for the best work of the year 1990 on High-Tc SQUIDs of the A.  N.  Chatterjee Memorial Medal by Indian Cryogenics Council.

 

v  Position of responsibility in Professional Societies:

 

·      Member of Council of Material Research Society of India (MRSI) for 2015-2019, 2019-2024.

·      Chairman, Organizing Committee of “International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE-2020”.

·      Member, Expert Group of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) on “Advanced Material Mission” (2019-2020).

·      Member Steering Committee of “East Asia Symposium on Superconductor Electronics” (Head Office: Yonezawa, japan)

·      Member of editorial board of International Journal “Current Applied Physics” from 2018.

·      Chairman of Organising Committee of ‘East Asia Symposium on Superconductor Electronics at IIT Delhi’ Dec. 5-8, 2017.

·      Chief-Editor of GSTF Journal of Physics and Application (Singapore) (2013 – 2016).

·      Member of editorial board of International Journal ‘Superconductor Science and Technology’, Institue of Physics (UK) publisher (2005-2009).

·      Member of International Steering Committee of East Asia Society of Superconductor Electronics from 2008 – Continuing.

·      Chairman, India-Singapore Joint Physics Symposium held at IIT Delhi, 20-22 Feb 2012.

·      Chairman of ‘East Asia Symposium on Superconductor Electronics’ held at IIT Delhi in Dec.  2007.

·      Member Sectional Committee of Earth System Sciences, Indian Science Congress Association, 2016-2017.

·      Co-chairman, International Workshop on Advanced Materials and Technologies for Nano and Oxide Electronics, Delhi 19 - 22Feb 2007.

·      Co-chairman in International conference on Electroactive-polymer held at Goa, 19-24 Feb 2007.

·      Co-chairman, International Conference of Electro-active polymers held at Dalhousie, India in Nov 2004.

·      President of Material Science Section of Indian Science Congress Association for 2004 - 2005.

·      Secretary, 6th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics Science & Technology, New Delhi 14-15 Nov 2001.