Dr. Pawan Kumar
My Story
Dr. Pawan Kumar was born in lower middle class family in Village Bound Kalan, Charkhi Dadrai, Bhiwani, and Haryana. In the constraint environment he did his high and Sr. Secondary schooling from Govt. Sr. Sec. School of village, Afterward, he did his UG & PG from University Department, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. For the Master Project work he joins as Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Chandigarh (India) as Trainee in Oct 2009. During this period, he was awarded JRF(GATE)CSIR to purse Ph.D. (Engineering) from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research - Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Chandigarh (India) and completed the same in July 2014. After completion of PhD work, he did his post-doctoral fellow at Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea from 2014 to 2016. In 2016, he was awarded President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) by Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) at Hefei National Lab for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China. In the same year, he returns India and join Young Scientist at Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India.
In July 2016, he was selected as Assistant Professor at Department of Nano Sciences and Materials, Central University of Jammu, Jammu and now working their till now. During last five year, he has implemented four research projects from external funding agencies including SERB, DRDO, UGC and CUJammu costing around 250 Lacs and established Materials Research Application Lab (MARL) at Central University of Jammu, Jammu. Dr. Kumar made significant contribution in the field of advanced materials for pollutants sensors applications and recycle waste materials in useful product. As an output of his research work, he has filled 03- Indian Patent, published 85 high impact factor paper in journals including Progress in Materials Science (Elsevier), Progress in Polymer Science (Elsevier), Biotech Advances (Elsevier), Scientific Report (Nature) Journal of Materials Chemistry -A (RSC), ACS Applied materials and Interface, Trends in Analytical Chemistry (Elsevier), Biosensor and Bioelectronics (Elsevier), Mesoporous and Micro porous Material (Elsevier) etc., 24 conference paper and 7 book chapter till now. In his 10 year of research and more than 8 year of teaching, he has guided 20 Master students, guiding 4 PhD students and post doctoral.
For his outstanding scientific contribution, he is conferred with “Haryana Yuva Vigyan Ratna Award for 2019-20