Current Physics

Professor Jiangfeng Gong received his PhD degree from Nanjing University in 2008. He worked as a lecturer in the College of Science, Hohai University in the same year. Then he worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney under the support of "Endeavor Award" from 2012 to 2013. He had published more than 50 scientific papers with citations exceeding 1100. He is now a professor in the College of Science at the Hohai University.

Prof. Alajerami is a renowned physicist and researcher in the field of medical imaging and radiation protection and advanced materials. The academic journey of Prof. Alajerami began with a (B.Sc.) in medical imaging from Al Azhar University-Gaza, where he graduated with honors and earned recognition for his outstanding academic achievements. He continued his education and obtained M.Sc. in radioactive material and environmental pollution. Following master's degree, he was awarded with a highly competitive research scholarship to pursue Ph.D. in radiation physics from a leading research institute (UTM-Malaysia). Throughout his academic career, he actively collaborated with renowned physicists and researchers from around the world, participating in international conferences and workshops. His research contributions led to several prestigious awards and honors, including the Young Scientist Award from the International Physics Society and the Quantum Physics Research Fellowship.

Professor Rajan Jose is a senior Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and is the Main Editor of the journal of Springer Nature “Materials Circular Economy” and Editor-in-Chief of Current Science & Technology. He has investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and has received PhD degree in the year 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of diverse range of materials including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, materials for molecular electronics, biomaterials, glasses, and glass ceramics. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 275 papers in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics) indexed journals which are cited over 15000 times with an h-index of 65 according to Google Scholar database. He holds 25 patents. He has supervised 6 Postdoctoral, 24 Doctoral, and 10 Master’s researchers. Stanford University places him at 2161/285311 Materials Scientists in the list of Lifetime achievers (2021) in the world – representing top 0.76%. He is also ranked top #5 Materials Scientists in Malaysia by Research.com. His current research interests include sustainable materials, textile electronics, circular economy, data science, renewable energy devices; most of his research areas are on the structure – property relationship in materials for a desired device functionality.

Dr. Surjit Sahoo is currently working as a National Post-doctoral Fellow (N-PDF) at School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea. He joined as a Ph.D. scholar in the Nanomaterials System lab in 2016 under the "Brain Korea Fellowship" scheme. His thesis work was focused on the electrochemical energy storage devices (supercapacitors), energy harvesting systems (nanogenerator), and the fabrication of self-powered devices for both energy conversion and storage using nanomaterials (transition metal oxides (TMOs), transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs), and 2D materials.

Dr. Xavier ThankappanSuryabai, currently working as assistant professor & research guide at theCentre for Advanced Materials Research, Department of Physics, Governmentcollege for women, affiliated to the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India.He graduated with a master's degree in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University,Tamil Nadu, and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Kerala,Thiruvananthapuram. His research interests include Density Functional studiesof materials, spectroscopy, Development of functionalised nanomaterials andcomposites for energy storage applications, drug design, sensors and physicseducation.

Dr. Meenal Gupta received her PhD degree in Physics from University of Allahabad, India. She is currently working on a project in Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento, via Monteroni, Lecce, 73100, Italy. She has published more than 40 journal papers. Her research interests include advanced energy conversion and storage technologies, such as supercapacitors and fuel cells.

Narinder Singh obtained his postgraduate degree in 2005 from Panjab University in India. In the same year, he passed the University Grant Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) and the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) with a 93.43 percentile score and a 233rd All India Rank. He spent fifteen years as Assistant Professor in eight different higher education institutions. He recently received his Ph. D. in Synthesis and Characterizations of CuS & CuO Nanoparticles and their Nanocomposites with Polypyrrole from Indus International University (India) between 2017 and 2021. At the moment, he is investigating the structural, optical and electrical properties of inorganic nanomaterials, conducting polymers, and hybrid nanocomposites.