BIO of Emmanuel Kakaras

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Professor Dr. Emmanouil Kakaras has been Vice President and Head of Research & Development at Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbH since September 2012. His current R&D activities mainly focus on flexible operation of thermal plants, on fuel cells and electrolysers, the development of large scale energy storage and the utilization of CO2.
Since 1st January 2018 he serves as Senior Vice President for Energy Solution and New Products. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Power Plants Supplier Association (EPPSA) and of the Board of Directors of EU Turbines.
Professor Kakaras’ academic background is on clean energy generation tech-nologies and since December 1991 he has been Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He has been  also guest lecturer at the Universities of Warsaw and Tokyo. He participates as an external member in various working groups organized by the European Commission (CAG, Energy Committee), the Advisory Council of the Technology Platforms on Zero Emission Power Plants and on Smart Networks for Energy Transition as well as the Scientific Board of Industrial Associations (VGB, Rhein Ruhr Power, BDI). Professor Kakaras is also a member of several advisory committees of academic institutions (EASAC, Academy of Athens, EASE).

BIO of Mostafa A. El-Sayed

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B.Sc., Ain Shams U. Cairo, Egypt; Ph.D., Florida State University; Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology; Faculty member at UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (1961-94); Julius Brown Chair and Regents’ Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (1994- present).
Professor El-Sayed received the 2007 US National Medal of Science in Chemistry from the President of the United States (2008) and the Medal of the Egyptian Republic of the First Class from the President of Egypt (2009). He was nominated by the U.S. President to the US National Medal of Science Selection Committee,
Professor El-Sayed is an Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1980), an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986), an Elected Associate Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences (1984); he is an Inaugural Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society and the Chinese Chemical Society.
Professor El-Sayed was an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow, Germany (1982), a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, an Alfred P. Sloan as well as a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, a Fairchild Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and a Miller Visiting Professor at U.C. Berkeley. In the past ten years, El-Sayed’s name has appeared frequently in the lists of the most highly cited scientists.

BIO of János Kundrák

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János Kundrák graduated as a certified mechanical engineer specialised in production engineering in 1973, and subsequently earned the University Doctoral Thesis of Engineering Sciences in 1979, Candidate of Technical Science in 1987, Doctor of Technical Science in 1998, and Habilitated Doctor in 1999. His career at the Department of Production Engineering began as a research assistant (from 1973), then assistant lecturer (1975), assistant professor (1980), associate professor (1989) and professor (1999). From 2007 he was head of the Department of Production Engineering, then Director of Institute of Manufacturing Science until 2014. Scholarships: aspirant (1983– 1986); Szechenyi Professors’ Scholarship (1998–2001). Honours: Honorary Doctor of National Technical University “Kharkív Politechnic Institut” (2004), Honorary Professor at Cracow University of Technology (2013), Honorary citizen of the University of Miskolc. Memberships: Ukrainian Academy of Engineering and Higher Education; Habilitation Committee and Doctoral Committee of Technical Science. Research field: production engineering, cutting machining.

BIO of Tatsuo Sawada

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Tatsuo Sawada earned degrees in mechanical engineering from Keio University (B.S. 1978, M.S. 1980, and Ph.D. 1983). After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University as a Research Associate. In 1993 he was promoted to Associate Professor, and to Full Professor in 2002 . He served as Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University from 2010 to 2012. He worked in Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University as a visiting scientist (1988-1999). He is a fellow of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has been the President of Japan Society of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics from 2014. His research interests include flow problems of magnetic and magneto-rheological fluids, ultrasonic measurement, and flow induced vibration.

BIO of James C. Seferis

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Prof. /Dr. James Dimitrios Constantine Seferis is a distinguished educator in chemical engineering, management science, environmental health and technology. In addition to his research on polymeric composites, materials and processes incl. clean energy, he is a sought after advisor/consultant in aviation, chemical and energy sectors as well as a lecturer at executive seminars, international conferences and academic institutions. He also invests in his areas of longstanding expertise incorporating organizations that have a social mission with a profit potential. With a team of full-time professionals in eight countries and a network of over five hundred collaborators and former students in over one hundred organizations, Prof. Seferis can harness unprecedented resources for the benefit of his investments and activities.

BIO of Evangelos Hristoforou

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Evangelos Hristoforou, Electrical Engineer from the University of Patras in 1984 and PhD Graduate from King’s College London in 1991, is Professor of Electronic Materials at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens and Director of the Laboratory of Electronic Sensors. His main research interests refer to the stress tensor distribution monitoring and rehabilitation in ferromagnetic steels. Other interests include position & displacement sensors, magnetometers & their applications, magnetic cardiograph, mass flowmeters, production of hydrogen from water below 300C, magnetic techniques for biomedical applications, production of valuable ingredients from agricultural products, desalination, sewage and algae cultivation using selective magnetic separation by employing magnetic nanoparticles etc.. He is actively related to numerous industries in the field of sensors, energy and health, collaborating in several research projects. He has published more than 150 papers in international journals (h-index=24) and has given more than 30 invited presentations in international conferences.

BIO of Mojtaba Moatamedi

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Professor Moatamedi is the President of The International Society of Multiphysics
(www.multiphysics.org). He has an extensive experience at a number of institutions including
Universities of Manchester, Tromso, Cranfield, Salford and Imperial College London. He is
Fellow Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Fellow Member of The Nuclear Institute,
Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Member of the Euro
Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as the Chairman of the Manchester
Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society and he has been an advisor to many industrial and
governmental bodies including the Office for Nuclear Regulations in addition to being the lead
person to devise the multiphysics competence standards for European Union. He served as a
member of the Board of Governors of European Nuclear Education Network and is currently a
member of the Council and the Board of Directors of NAFEMS, as well as the Vice Chairman
of the Association of Aerospace Universities. He is currently the Editor of Elsevier Multiphysics
Series and has served as a visiting scholar at many institutions worldwide including
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BIO of Constantine Papaspyrides

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Constantine Papaspyrides is a Professor on Polymer Science and Technology and Director of LPT since 1994. He has been President and Vice-President of the School and Visiting Professor / Consultant in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETH), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc. / Invista, Inc., CIBA Lampertheim GmbH/BASF GmbH, and Royal DSM N.V. He is also a Member of the Recycling Plastic Working Group at the European Commission, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), CEF Panel (Food contact materials, enzymes, flavourings and processing aids). International Publications include a book on "Solid State Polymerization" (C.D. Papaspyrides, S.N. Vouyiouka, Editors. John Wiley & Sons, 2009) and also on "Polymer Green Flame Retardants" (C.D. Papaspyrides, P. Kiliaris, Editors. Elsevier, 2014).

BIO of Kazuyuki Hokamoto

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He began his faculty position at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kumamoto University, Japan, in 1987 followed by being awarded his doctor degree (Dr.Eng.) from Kyushu University in 1988. He has served as the faculty member of Kumamoto University, and he is currently Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of Pulsed Power Science, Kumamoto University. His research interest is mainly on the use of explosive and other impulsive energy for materials processing, and he has published about 200 papers mainly on explosive welding, powder compaction, and powder synthesis. His experiences include positions as Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego (1989-90), and Georgia Institute of Technology (1995-96). He has organized the ESHP Symposium series five times since 2004. He has been awarded Best Paper Award in 2004 from Japan Soc. for Technol. of Plasticity, Promotion of Science Award in 2016 from Japan Welding Society, and others.

BIO of Manos Maragakis

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Dr. Maragakis received his BS degree in Civil Engineering (CE) in 1980 from National Technical University of Athens, Greece and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in CE from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He joined the faculty of the CE Department at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in 1984, was promoted to associate professor in 1989 and full professor in 1994. He chaired the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department from 1994 until 2008. In 2008 he was appointed Interim Dean of the College of Engineering. He was appointed as Dean of the College in 2009 following a national search. In 2005 he was awarded the title of UNR Foundation Professor.
Dr. Maragakis' research emphasis is in earthquake engineering. He has received several sizable competitive grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal, state and private funding organizations. In June 2007 he was awarded a $3.6M NSF Grand Challenge project on the study of the seismic response of nonstructural systems. As the leader of this project, he is coordinating the efforts of researchers and practitioners from 23 institutions around the country and the world. He has authored or co-authored over 185 publications in journals, proceedings and technical reports. He was the founding chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) National Committee on the Seismic Design of Bridges (2000-2006). He has organized several international meetings and has delivered numerous invited presentations. Dr. Maragakis has taught a wide variety of fundamental undergraduate and advanced graduate courses related to structural and earthquake engineering as well computer applications and numerical analysis.

BIO of Antonios G. Kladas

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Antonios G. Kladas is Professor of Electrical Machines at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where he was engaged in 1996. Before, he worked for five years in the System Studies Department of the Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC SA). His research activities for over 30 years include electric machine design and modelling as well as power system and industrial drive analysis under steady state and dynamic conditions. His main contributions concern finite element based techniques for numerical modelling for coupled electromagnetic thermal phenomena as well as simultaneous hybrid macroscopic and microscopic representation of advanced magnetic materials and hybrid analytic numerical models for the analysis of electrical machines with applications to electric traction. He has participated in 30 national and international projects serving as coordinator in 10 of them concerning electric vehicles as well as more electric ship and more electric aircraft initiatives. He is member of the International Steering Committee of the International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM). He has authored more than 100 scientific papers and his work has received more than 1500 citations.

BIO of Jeremy Ramsden

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Jeremy Ramsden was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Princeton and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he obtained his doctorate in the Institute of Chemical Physics for research on semiconductor nanoparticles. His experiences include visiting scientist at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Laboratory of Chemical Engineering), Zürich (1993) and the Biocenter (Institute of Biophysics) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged (1987). He has also worked for 12 years at the Basel Biocenter (Institute of Biophysical Chemistry), where he was Member of the Faculty of Natural Philosophy of Basel University from 1994–2012. He was Professor and Chair of Nanotechnology at Cranfield University (UK) from 2002–11, and Research Director for Bionanotechnology, Cranfield University at Kitakyushu 2003–9. He has been Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Buckingham since 2012, and Research & Technology Director, Henge Precision Materials Ltd. since 2013. He has been author or coauthor of more than 250 research articles published in international referred journals, has made a comparable number of conference presentations, is inventor or co-inventor of three patents, has written or edited about a dozen books, chaired several international conferences, and served as visiting professor in Argentina, France, Georgia, Hungary, and Japan. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (London) and a IUPAC Fellow. Currently, his main research areas are: complex adaptive systems and emergent nano-info-bio-cogno converging technologies; photocatalytic antimicrobial coatings; optical chemical sensors.

BIO of Clive Chirwa

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Professor Clive Chirwa, BEng (Hons), MSc, PhD, DSc, is Distinguished Professor of Structural Crashworthiness and Editor-In-Chief & Founder of The International Journal Of Crashworthiness. His current position is Group Vice President Technical at PPA Group of Companies (www.ppa-group.com). From 1998 until his retirement in 2016, he was Professor of Automotive & Aerospace Engineering at The University of Bolton, UK. To date, he has published 180 Journal Papers, 250 Conference Papers, and 130 Technical Reports. He has also supervised the completion of 32 PhD students, 327 MSc students, and invented 5 patents in total. His numerous international awards include: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Holman Brothers Safety Awards in Mechanical Engineering for best research work and paper published on aspects of eliminating danger to health (2001);
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers T A Stewart-Dyer/Frederick Harvey Trevithick Prize in Mechanical Engineering for best research work and paper published in the Railway Division (2001); and
The Henry Ford Prize for contributing to the safety of passenger vehicles (1997).

BIO of Mustafa Guden

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Professor Mustafa Güden was born in Ankara of Tukey in 1967. He attained his Bachelor's Degree from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University in 1992 and his Master's Degree in 1998. He received his PhD from the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware in 1998. Professor Guden, an academic at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), was a visiting researcher at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials and a visiting scholar at Kazakh-British Technical University. He is chairman of IZTECH Material Research Center, the member of Izmir Technopark Executive Council, and has been the Rector of IZTECH since being assigned in November 2010. He has more than 70 publications in national and international journals indexed by Science Citation, most of which are based on the studies conducted at IZTECH. Professor Guden, awarded with Professor Mustafa Parlar Master Thesis Award, Husamettin Tugac Foundation Technology Research Award, TUBITAK Motivation Award and Elginkan Foundation Technology Award, has been the chairman of Izmir Technology Development Region, the member of Higher Education Council University Industry Cooperation Committee and Turkish-Russian Social Forum Education Science Committee member. Professor Güden is married and has one daughter.

BIO of Paata Kervalishvili

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Professor, Doctor of Sciences and Dr.-Eng. Paata J. Kervalishvili is Professor at department of Physics within Georgian Technical University, as well as Professor of the Faculty of Exact and Natural sciences of Tbilisi State University. P. Kervalishvili received his B.S. and M.S. in engineering physics from Georgian Technical University. The Soviet State institute of Rare Metals awarded him the title of Ph. D., and Dr.-Eng. in 1979, and Soviet atomic centre Kurchatov Institute – degree of Doctor of physics and mathematics (1985). He got USSR Professor State title in 1989.
From 1970 until 1992, Prof. Kervalishvili was researcher and Director in different research and technology centers within the Middle Machinery Ministry (State Committee for Atomic Energy) of former USSR main body of the Soviet atomic energy and weapon industry (Institute of Stable Isotopes, The Soviet State institute of Rare Metals, Sukhumi Physical-Technical Institute, I. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy). After one year in the Parliament of Georgia, he then worked in the Government of Georgia throughout 1994-1999.
A condensed matter physicist with Technical University Diploma, Dr. Kervalishvili has served in several directions of physics and technology such as: condensed matter, molecular and quantum physics, nuclear and laser technologies, novel materials, sensory systems, energy and information technologies. He is the author to more than 450 scientific publications, books, manuals, and inventions and among them scientific bestsellers published by IOS Press, Pergamon Press, Springer.
Prof. Kervalishvili is a member of more then 10 top level academies and research councils and among them: full member of American, European, Russian and Georgian scientific academies, Georgian Engineering academy and other distinguish organizations. Currently he is the President of Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences and President of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Kervalishvili received more than 25 prestigious prizes and state orders and among them USSR, Georgia, Germany, Italy, different public organizations, scientific academies and universities (USA, Greece, Russia, Turkey, Italy, Egypt, etc.)
As a Director and coordinator of several (more than 90) World Bank, EU, ISTC, etc. projects and Chairman of International Forums and Conferences (more than 60), as well as Professor of some well known European and American Universities, his vast and rich international experience is evident.

BIO of Pengwan Chen

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Dr. Pengwan Chen is professor and dean of the School of Mechatronical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China.
He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering mechanics from Beijing Institute of Technology in 1999. Prior to that, he received his master and bachelor's degree from Kunming Institute of Technology, China in 1996 and 1993, respectively. He worked as a postdoc researcher in Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, during 1999 - 2001. He joined Beijing Institute of Technology in 2001 and received a full professor position in 2006. He was the dean for general affairs of the school of materials science and engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology during 2010-2016. He founded Shock Physics and Chemistry Lab at Beijing Institute of Technology in 2006 and acted as the director since then.
His research activities primarily focus on mechanical, physical and chemical responses under dynamic loading (shock wave or shockless compression), including shock-induced modification, synthesis and processing of materials; deformation, fracture and failure of materials and structures under dynamic loading; numerical simulation of dynamic behavior of material and structures under impact and shock waves. He has received many awards, such as First Prize of China Education Ministry’s Award for Science and Technology Progress (2015), Second Prize of China Education Ministry’s Award for Science and Technology Progress (2008), 24th Beijing Youth Award (2010).
He has published 4 monographs and chapters, and over 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, delivered 10 invited and keynote lectures, and given over 30 contributed presentations. He has been engaged in the organization of many international conferences, workshops and symposia in many different global venues, such as co-chair of Fifth International Symposium on Explosion, Shock wave and High-strain-rate Phenomena (2016, Beijing), and vice-chair of the International Conference of Multiphysics 2017 (Beijing). He has been and is a member of many global professional societies, professional organizations, editorial boards (such as Strain, the International Journal of Multiphysics).
He has been a reviewer for many International Journals such as: Carbon, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Applied Surface Science, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, Materials Chemistry and Physics Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Journal of Energetic Materials, Mechanics of martials, Strain.

BIO of Tetiana Prikhna

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Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics Tetiana Prikhna: Head of the Department of Technologies of High Pressures, Functional Ceramic Composites and Dispersed Superhard Materials in the Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Professor of the Chair of Chemistry in the Kiev National University of Building and Architecture. Main fields of scientific interest: Material sciences, Physics and Chemistry of single crystals, thin-films, powders, composites and nanomaterials (preparation using high pressure technique, hot pressing, spark plasma sintering, high isostatic pressing, pressureless and vacuum synthesis, electroerosion dispersion; investigation of the materials structure by X-ray, SEM, TEM, polarized light microscopy, Auger and Raman spectroscopy; study of the materials superconducting and mechanical properties, microwave absorption). The investigated materials were Y123-, Bi2212-, Bi2223-, MgB2�based superconductors, AlN-based microwave absorbers; B4C-, TiB2-, AlB2-, AlB12-, AlB12C2-, B6O-, Si3N4- and SiC-based refractory, abrasive and shock-wave resistant materials; МАХ phases and solid solutions of (Ti, Nb)-(Al, Si)-(C,N) and (Cr,V)-Al-C systems and their composites with diamonds and cubic boron nitride. Now she is the Co-director of the Science for Peace and Security Programme, NATO Project SPS 985070 (2016-2019), Leader of the Ukrainian projects of the Programs �Fundamental problems of new nanomaterials and nanotechnologies�, �Resurs�, �Defence and Security Protection�, Project manager of Specified Purpose project and four Departmental projects of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In former time she was Manager of INTAS� UKRAINE-95-0221, 22 bilateral projects (1997-2016) between Ukraine and Germany, France, Hungary, Austria, Greece, Belarus, Responsible executor of NATO �Science for Peace� № 973529 (2000-2005) and Senior Researcher of EU-7 Project �Start� No 295003 of ERA-WIDE program (2012-2014). She is the Member of two Scientific Coucels for the Defece of Doctors Dissertations in Ukraine (Institute for Superhard Materials of the NASU and Institute for Problems of Material Sciences of the NASU); she was the scientific supervisor of 6 Candidate of Sciences (equivalent to PhD); at present performs the scientific consulting of two Doctorants and is scientific supervisor of PhD student. She had 12 invited visits as Guest Professor at Institut fur Physikalische Hochtechnologie and Institute for Photonische Tecnology, Jena, Germany, CRETA/CNRS, Grenoble, France, Universite de Poitiers, CNRS/Lab. de Metallurgie Physique, France, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany, Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Poland. Awarded The Order of Princess Olga, III degree (government award of Ukraine) (2012); The sign "Ushinsky K.D." Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine (2011); Commemorative Medal for the 90th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2008); Diploma of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2008) and was �Woman of 2014 year from Kiev� in the nomination �Woman in Science�.
Total number of scientific publications � 501, among which are 215 papers, 31 patents and 6 books, more than 180 presentations at conferences and ceminars.

BIO of Dimitris C. Lagoudas

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Dimitris C. Lagoudas currently is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Engineering Research, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Deputy Director of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), the inaugural recipient of the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering and a Distinguished University Professor at Texas A&M University. He has served as interim and permanent Department Head of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University and also the inaugural Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering graduate program at Texas A&M University. He has also served as an Associate Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University and Center Director of two TEES research centers.
D.C. Lagoudas’ research involves the design, characterization and modeling of multifunctional material systems at nano, micro and macro levels with averaging micromechanics methods developed to bridge the various length scales and functionalities including mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of nanocomposites. His research team is one of the most recognized internationally in the area of modeling and characterization of shape memory alloys. He has co-authored more than 450 scientific publications in archival journals and conference proceedings and he has co-authored one of the widely used books on shape memory alloys. He has published extensively on the subject of shape memory alloys with his students, postdoctoral associates and colleagues and several of his journal papers are now considered classic papers in the field. The theoretical models that his research group developed have been implemented and integrated into finite element analysis software, which have been used by academic institutions around the world and also by industry and government.
D.C. Lagoudas received the 2006 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize in recognition of his contributions to the modeling and characterization of shape memory alloys and their use in aerospace structures and he is the 2011 recipient of the SPIE Smart Structure and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IOP and SES and was named a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University in 2013.

BIO of Nikoloz Chikhradze

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Field of Expertise:
Solid State Physics /Materials Science: Composite Materials; Nanotechnologies and nanostructured materials; Development of radiation resistant hard and elastic composite materials and protective structures from neutron and gamma irradiation; Polymeric composites reinforced with fibers and matrix; Thermoelectric materials;
Explosive and Blasting Technologies, Including: Detection, identification, utilization of explosive materials and non-authorized blasting; Development of new explosives and environmentally safe technologies for their application; explosive welding, compaction, syntheses, hardening and etc.

BIO of Bernard Raveau

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Bernard Raveau is Emeritus Professor at the University of Caen, where he received his PhD degree (1966). Founder of CRISMAT, the CNRS-ENSICAEN Laboratory for Crystallography and Materials in 1986 and of the CNRT Matériaux (National Research Centre of Technology for Materials) in 2000, he is a specialist of crystal chemistry of transition metal oxides. He is Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Member of Académie des Sciences,Member of the Indian Academy, Member of the Academia Europea and Fellow of the Royal Society.
He has authored 1400 journal publications mainly devoted to high Tc superconducting cuprates, CMR manganites, magnetic and thermoelectric cobaltates and transition metal phosphates. Additionally, he is co-author to 3 books: “Crystal Chemistry of High Tc Superconducting copper oxides” (1991); “Transition Metal Oxides” (1995); and “Cobalt oxides: from Crystal Chemistry to Physics” (2012). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including: European Prize Italgaz, Grande Médaille d’Or de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, Médaille d’Argent du CNRS, Grand Prix Pierre Sue de la Société Chimique de France, Bernd Matthias Prize, Distinguished Fellow of the Bangalore Nehru Centre, Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, Commandeur des Palmes Académiques.