Professor Dr. Kaushik Pal is Professor and Group Leader within the Department of Physics, University Centre for Research and Development (UCRD), Chandigarh University, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kalyani, India. He achieved most prestigious Honaris Cousá Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) award from IKTBN, Sepang, Govt. of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; received a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Greece offered by European Union and Chinese Academy of Science; and was elected Fellow at Wuhan University, China. In his professional career has built research centers of excellence and smart teaching platform contributions at the University Federal Rio de Jàneiro, Brazil; Yarmouk University, Jordan; and the University of Maribör, Slovenia. And most significantly, he published 28 books and 158-articles in top-tier international journal (SCI/SCOPUS). As an efficient group leader, he also supervised PhD’s and post-doctorates in his group with several collaborators from foreign universities. His current research interests include nanofabrication, chemical nanoengineering, solid-state condensation chemistry, renewable green energy revolution, functional Materials hybridization, CNTs/graphene, liquid crystalline optical materials, polymeric nanocomposite, switchable device modulation, spectroscopy and electron microscopy, bio-inspired materials for nano-biotechnology, drug delivery, tissue engineering, nano-imaging and cell culturing and integration, flexible and transparent electrodes, supercapacitors, optoelectronics, green nanotechnology, and novel biosensor applications.
