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Prof. Sunirmal Jana CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI), India |
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Biography:
Dr. Sunirmal Jana born on 12th July, 1966. He did his Master of Science Degree in
Chemistry in the year 1991 from Kalyani University, India and obtained his Ph.D.
(Science) degree in 1998 from Jadavpur University, India. He also completed Bachelor of
Education degree (B. Ed.) and “Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
organized “Leadership Development Programme (LDP 0905)” Management Course for
middle to senior level leaders” at CSIR HRDC, Gaziabad, India. In December 1997, Dr.
Jana joined CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CSIR-CGCRI),
Kolkata, India as a Junior Scientist. Presently, he is working as a Senior Principal
Scientist of CSIR under Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and
Professor of Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR) at the same
Institute (CSIR-CGCRI). Dr. Jana is also performing his duties as a Course Co-ordinator
and as a Professor for the course, “Structural and Functional Coatings” of AcSIR. He is
also worked for 6 years as Guest Teacher for B. Tech. students in Chemical Technology,
University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on the subjects, “Sol-gel materials, carbon nanotubes, sonochemical synthesis etc.” from 2016 to 2021. Dr Jana is actively
involved / coordinated / performed / performing as Principal Investigator (PI) / Co-PI of
various National and International Research Projects. His current research activities
basically are dielectric / metal oxide semiconductors (MOS) based sol-gel thin functional
films/coating, superhydrophobic cum antibacterial coatings, carbon based
nanomaterials, low thermal expansion nanostructured glass-ceramics etc. for different
applications. At present, he has published ~80 SCI/peer reviewed research papers (hindex:
22; Citations: ~1650) in internationally reputed different journals, 9 Book
Chapters, 8 Conf. Proceeding, 85 conference papers and 5 Indian Patents. He has
already guided 6 Ph.D. (Science/Engineering) students and also guiding several Ph.D.
students. In addition, he has already supervised 15 M.Tech/M.Sc/B.Tech. students for
the projects to fulfill their respective degrees. Under his active leadership, three major
facilities (Solar Panel Coating, Drain Coating and Smelter cum Reactor) of national
importance have been created indigenously at CSIR-CGCRI. Dr. Jana is an elected
member of the Council of Indian Ceramic Society for the four terms (years 2015 and
2016; 2017 and 2018; 2019 and 2020; 2023 and 2024) and he is working as one of the EC
members of Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), Kolkata Chapter, India. He
is also the life members of Materials Research Society of India, Indian Ceramic
Society, Electron Microscopy Society of India, Indian Association for the Cultivation
of Science and NCE Bengal & Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Dr Jana is one of
the Senior Members of International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI),
Hong Kong. Dr. Jana availed Brain Pool Fellowship from Korean Federation of
Science & Technology Societies (KOFST) and worked as a visiting scientist at Korea
Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejeon, South Korea for one
year during 2005-2006. He also did his research work as visiting scientists in other
prestigious research Institutes in abroad (Slovenia and Portugal). Presently, Dr. Jana
is functioning as one of the Editors/Editorial Board Members including Advances in
Nanoparticles (Scientific Research Publishing), General Chemistry (USA), Kenkyu
Journal of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience (Kenkyu Group, India), Journal of
Advanced Nanomaterials (Isaac Publishing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong), Source Journal of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (USA), Journal of Material Science and
Nanoengineering (Neonex International Online Publishing Pvt. Ltd, India). He also
delivered 24 Plenary / Keynote / invited talks in India and abroad and also chaired the
technical sessions at various national and international conferences / seminars / symposia.
Dr. Jana also evaluated / examined several PhD theses / PhD Viva voce Examinations
as an external examiner of many Indian Universities (e.g. Karunya University, Sastra
University, Manonmaniam Sundaranar Univerisity, Alagappa University, Periyar
University, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur;
Formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, West Bengal, India,
Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), India). He has participated in
different events as a speaker, panelist, roundtable moderator or session chairman. He
is a regular reviewer of research papers from American Chemical Society (ACS),
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Elsevier, Spingers, Taylor & Francis, IOP, SCIRP
etc. In addition to winning several poster paper awards, Dr. Jana won prestigious
Distinguished Scientist Award of Venus International Research Awards (VIRA-2016) by Venus International Foundation, Chennai, India in the year 2016.
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