Prof. Pankaj Srivastava

Biography

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Dr. Pankaj Srivastava is Professor of Physics in the Department of Engineering Sciences in ABV- Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (MP) and Dean of Faculty Affairs (DoFA).  He is former-Dean of Academic Affairs (DoAA) and founder former-Head of the Department of Engineering Sciences at ABV-IIITM, Gwalior. He was awarded Ph.D. degree from Physics Department, Central University of Allahabad, Prayagraj in 1998 and worked as Research Fellow in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics group at International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, ITALY. He has also worked as Research Associate in ISRO and UGC sponsored research projects at Physics Department, Central University of Allahabad till Feb. 2003. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. To his credit he has expertise in Theoretical Modeling and Simulation in Material Science, Metamaterials and Quantum technology. His research group works in the area of computational materials science viz 2D and 1D nanomaterials employing ab-initio approach. Besides, his group also works on various physical properties of metamaterials.   He has been working since last 25 years in academics, R&D work and contributed to various administrative responsibilities. He has served as the Warden and Chief-Warden of hostels and Chairperson and member of several committees of this institute.  He has been Faculty Coordinator of various academic, social and cultural activities and conducted many workshops, faculty development programs and session chairs of IEEE conferences. He has developed Start-up named “Shaastra Automation LLP in 2017 under which he and his team developed “Auto-Dimmer Device “for which he has awarded National Patent in July 2018 and other 2 national patents in 2026.

He has been PI/co-PI of 09 major sponsored research projects by AICTE, DST-SERB, CSIR, DRDO, DAAD-RISE, Germany and DEITY-New Delhi. Currently, he has 01 ongoing research project and 01 consultancy project. He has been awarded Bharat Jyoti Award- IIFS-New Delhi (2011), Nanoscience Research Award- Gwalior Vikas Samiti Gwalior (2015), Abul Kalam Gold Medal Award (GEPRA)- Tamilnādu (2016) and SHIKSHAK SAMMAN (2019)–District Rotary Club-Gwalior and ATAL- Outstanding Teachers Award -2022 of ABV-IIITM, Gwalior along with various National fellowships of UGC and DST New Delhi.

He has supervised 14 Ph.D.’s and 117+ Master’s thesis, published 254+ research papers in International and National referred Journals, Conferences and Seminar proceedings. His research interests include Condensed Matter Physics, Computational Nanoscience, Nanoelectronics, Energy Storage Materials, metamaterials and Quantum Computing. He has written two books and contributed 4 chapters in various international books like CRC press and Nova Science publishers USA. He is member of many professional and academic bodies and delivered invited talks in abroad. He has been member of IEEE and now became Senior member- IEEE (SM-IEEE).  Prof. Srivastava has been the reviewer of many national and international journals.  He has foreign research collaborators from University of Florida-USA, Indiana University-USA, Trinity College-Dublin, University of Exeter-UK and SDU- Denmark.