Professor Dr. Avinash C. Pandey had a brilliant academic career with four Masters (Physics, Mathematics, Business Administration and Computer Science) degrees followed by Ph.D. in Physics from Allahabad university, India. He was awarded GB Deodhar Gold Medal for securing highest marks in M.Sc. (Physics-X Rays) examination 1984. He served Allahabad university in various capacities holding positions of Professor in Atmospheric and Ocean Science; Coordinator, K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric & Ocean Studies and M.N. Saha Centre of Space Studies; and Director, Institute of Inter Disciplinary Studies (IIDS). He received Excellence Award, University of Allahabad in 2016.
Professor Pandey has nearly 300 publications in journals of repute in areas of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, and Atmospheric & Ocean Science, including 20 Patents and 19 books/monographs and contributed Chapters. He has supervised 30 research projects worth 37 Crores in the capacity of Principal Investigator. He entered into research collaboration with USA, Japan, South Africa, Germany, Armenia, South Korea, SAARC Countries and Italy. He developed state-of-the-art facilities for synthesis/characterization/device applications of nanomaterials; high performance computing for simulation studies of atmospheric/ocean/molecular dynamics and Virtual Physics Laboratory. His research output is of high quality with 4666 citations, i-10 index 129, and h-index 36.
Professor Pandey holds the position of Adjunct Professor, Michigan Tech, USA; and Chairman, Governing Council, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. He was Vice Chancellor of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (2012-15) and presently holds dual charge as Director, Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi & Director, Inter- University Centre (Yoga Sciences) Bangalore.
Prof. Robert Pullar obtained a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Warwick (UK) in 2000. Afterwards he was a research fellow in the UK from 2000-2008 at LSBU and Imperial College London, and then in 2008-2009 he was in Crete on a Marie Curie Fellowship. From 2009 to 2020 he was a Principal Researcher at the Department of Materials and Ceramics Engineering of the University of Aveiro in Portugal, and since autumn 2020 an Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
His main research interests are the synthesis and processing of ceramics, oxides and nanomaterials, and include sustainable and green chemistry & nanotechnology; magnetic, dielectric and ferroelectric ceramics & nanomaterials; multiferroic and magnetoelectric ceramics & composites; ceramic fibers; bioceramics and bioglasses; photocatalysts; electrochromic and photochromic materials (smart windows); solar energy materials for splitting H2O and CO2; waste remediation and valorisation; wood-based ecoceramics; cork derived materials; combinatorial and high-throughput ceramics processing; 3D printing and robocasting; and sustainable materials for the preservation of Cultural Heritage.
Prof. Pullar has published over 170 papers, with over 5300 citations and an H index of 37, has presented at over 85 conferences on 5 continents, including over 30 invited presentations, and delivered ca. 30 invited lectures worldwide.
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Fedora Quattrocchi is “Chief Scientist” at INGV as “Research Director” technologist (Prot. INGV Decr. 226, 25/07/2009), starting her activity in 1990, after the degree in Earth Sciences at University "La Sapienza" of Rome, in November 1988, "cum laudem", and after 20 years in following with the role of "tutor" a lot of degree and PhD students over different Italian universities (Rome 1-2-3, Padova, Florence, Milano-Bicocca, Cagliari, Basilicata, Perugia, etc..). She is already looking after Functional Unit “Fluid Geochemistry, Geological Storage and Geothermics” at the Department Seismology and Tectonophysics, and Responsible of “Energy and Georesources Research Line/Section Rome 1/INGV. Fedora started to teach as "contract professor" (2009) at the University "Tor Vergata" of Rome, Faculty of “Industrial Engineering”, for a 48 hours Course (5 CFU) named: “CO2 transport and sequestration”. She served as University teacher at Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope - Engineering Department - in December, 2015, teaching: Cod. A07 titled “Processes for the separation, capture and re-use of CO2”, in the frame of the post-PhD formation project “SMART GENERATION – Innovative Systems and technologies with high poligeneration efficiency”.
She is Italian member of “SET PLAN ENERGY enlarged Board” at the MIUR Ministry and Member of the EU-ZEP Platform Zero Emissions Fossil Fuels Power Plants since 2007. She represented for INGV the Zero Emission Fossil Fuels Power Plants Platform (EU-ZEP) inside the Working Group 2: CO2 Geological Storage, starting the activities in January 2006 and still ongoing. She was selected by IEA (International Energy Agency) on a series of activities on CCS, in the frame of the writing the Agency’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 Report. She was selected by IEA Commetee on Energy Research and Technology, as member of "Expert Group on R&D Priority setting and Evaluation" with first meeting November, 16-17, 2011 in Paris "Monitoring Progress towards a Clean Energy Economy". She is a Scientific Committee member of the Sustainable Development Foundation in Italy (Fondazione Sviluppo Sostenibile). Fedora has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed and other journals.
Gurtej Sandhu is Senior Fellow and Vice President at Micron Technology. In his current role, he is responsible for Micron’s end-to-end (Si-to-Package) R&D technology roadmaps. The scope includes driving cross-functional alignment across various departments and business units to proactively identify technology gaps and managing the engineering organization to resource and execute on developing innovative technology solutions for future memory scaling. Dr. Sandhu’s responsibilities include leading several internal project teams worldwide and managing interactions with research consortia around the world.
At Micron, Dr. Sandhu has held several engineering and management roles. He has been actively involved with a broad range of process technologies for IC processing and has pioneered several process technologies currently employed in mainstream semiconductor chip manufacturing.
Dr. Sandhu received a degree in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a Ph.D. in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He is recognized as one of the top inventors in the world. Dr. Sandhu is a Fellow of IEEE. In 2018, he received the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for outstanding contributions to silicon CMOS process technology that enables DRAM and NAND memory chip scaling.
Gurtej Sandhu’s urge for enhancing the efficiency of technological devices has not only got him more US patents than Thomas Edison, but also a recognition for being all-time seventh most prolific inventor as measured by number of U.S. utility patents. https://www.thebetterindia.com/194656/gurtej-sandhu-indian-origin-inventor-more-patents-than-edison-inspiring/
Prof. Sukhmander Singh did his M.S. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from University of California Berkeley. He worked as Senior Project Engineer with a top Consulting Company in San Francisco. He worked as Principal Investigator of Prominent projects such as a Dam with a history of slide (failure), and its redesign; and in charge of the Seismic Stability of all the Slopes and Liquefaction of the soils along the entire 800 miles of the Trans Alaska pipeline.
Subsequently, he joined Santa Clara University and currently holds the position of Professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering. He has been teaching there for 35 years of which 15 years as Chairman of the Department. He has been a visiting faculty, for short periods, for 10 years at Cambridge University, UK, publishing 10 collaborative papers with Cambridge. He has delivered invited lectures at Stanford, Berkeley, and Cambridge Universities. Professor Singh is recipient of some noteworthy awards: Researcher of the Year, Endowed Chair Award for Academic achievements, President’s Special Recognition Award for Teaching, Research and Service. Chairmanship of sessions at International Conferences. Lifetime Achievement Award from American Society of Civil Engineering’s San Jose Chapter. He is one of the top researchers in the fields of Liquefaction of Silty soils, Landfill Stability of Solid Waste Landfills. Editor of a Landmark book from American Society of Civil Engineering as Memorial to the top Engineer in the Earth Dam Designs. Co-editor of another book. Published 118 research papers in reputed journals and refereed conferences.
