Activities
Other Synergistic Activities Details


Inside IIT Kanpur


  • Centre/lab Building
    • Thin Films & Electronic Materials Lab, MSE, IIT Kanpur
    • CARE, IITK : Multipurpose thin film deposition unit based on electron beam evaporation (~2002)
    • Coordinator, Solar Energy Research Enclave, IIT Kanpur
    • Core Member, Samtel Centre for Display technologies (since 2000) and National Centre for Flexible Electronics (since 2014)
    • Coordinator, SCDT and NCFlexE , 2014-2017
  • Institute Level Administrative Assignments: Several Senate committees, SSPC Chairperson
  • Department Level Administrative Assignments: Member of two committees of the department every year as per the norms of MSE
  • Service to Institute Community: Member Faculty Forum, Member of Campus School's academic review committee, Member and Chairperson of Women's Cell (or equivalent) for several years, Member of Environmental Advisory Committee

Outside IIT Kanpur


  • Member: Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Centre for Solar Energy Materials, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad
  • Member: DPR for development of a semiconductor R&D Centre in India (Starting July 2020)
  • Member: Research Council of CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT), Bhubaneswar
  • Member: Research Council of CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI), Kolkata (For 3 years, starting 1-09-2020)
  • Council Member: IIM (Indian Institute of Metals, Metallurgy, Materials Engineering), 2020-21
  • Core Member: SERB PAC on Materials, Mining & Minerals Engineering
  • PANIIT-IISc IMPRINT-I: Domain Coordinator, Advanced Materials
  • Member of Institute Review Committees: IIT Mandi, IIT Gandhinagar
  • Reviewer:
    Journals: Syn. Mat., Mat. Res. Soc., IEEE, Nano Lett., Thin Solid Films, etc.
    Proposals: DST, CSIR, SERB, SPARC
  • Society Affiliation: Indian Institute of Metals, Texture Society of India, Society for Information Display (USA), Society for Materials Chemistry, Materials Research Society (USA)

Outreach Activities


  1. Organizer and instructor: QIP sponsored short course on "Electric and Electronic Properties of Materials and their Applications," July 03-07, 2000 (with Dr. D. Gupta)
  2. Instructor: Materials Characterization of cathode gun in QIP sponsored course on "Recent Trends in Information Display Technologies," May 14-18, 2001, organized by Samtel Center at IIT Kanpur
  3. Delivered lecture on Physical Vapour Deposition in Samtel Center organized course on "Preparation and Characterization of Thin films," February 22-24, 2002, IIT Kanpur
  4. Delivered lecture on: Organic Thin Film Transistors in "SCDT In-house workshop on Thin Film Transistor Technologies", May, 2005, IIT Kanpur
  5. Delivered lectures on various aspects of organic electronics in SCDT organized short courses every year since 2005.
  6. Participated in the teaching of VLFM program several times.
  7. Delivered lectures on Inorganic LEDs in a short course on Display Technology, 15-17 June2010, Penang- Malaysia.