Born in Palaparru, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh on 15th July, 1956.
Education:
School Education at Palaparru and College Education up to UG at Pedanandipadu.
M.Sc (Physics), I Div. with Distinction (O.U., Hyderabad), 1979
Ph.D. in Solid State Physics (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1984)
Employment:
Worked as Lecturer in Physics at AP Residential Degree College, Nagarjuna Sagar from 23rd December, 1984 to 22nd June, 1990
Andhra University as a faculty member at AU PG Centre, Nuzvid (23rd June, 1990)
Associate Professor from 14th July, 1994 to 13th July, 2002
Worked as Professor and Head of the Department of Physics at Acharya Nagarjuna University – Nuzvid Campus, Nuzvid from 14th July, 2002 to 2nd May, 2012.
Worked as Professor in Physics from 3rd May 2012 to 31st July, 2018 at Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjunanagar, Guntur.
Currently working as UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow in physics at Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjunanagar, Guntur
Research Field:
Solid State Physics
Materials Science (Glass Physics)
Dielectrics, Photoluminescence, Non-linear Optical studies, Thermo luminescence, ESR, IR, Raman Spectroscopy etc.
Membership in Professional bodies
Life Member of Materials Research Society of India
Life Member of Luminescence Society of India (former President of the Society).
Member of American Nanotechnology Society
Foreign Universities visited
Parma University, Parma, Italy
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland
Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland
Opole Institute of Technology, Opole, Poland
Insitute of Physics, Warsaw, Poland
Aveiro University, Aveiro, Portugal
Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Otto-Scott-Institute of Materials Research, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Visiting Professor of Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland
Honors Received
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Received "Best Teacher Award" on 5 SEP 2015 from Government of Andhra Pradesh
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Received "Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award" for the year 2010 from Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.
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Fellow of A.P. Academy of sciences
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Member of Academic Senate, Acharya Nagarjuna University
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Associate Editor, Optical Materials
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Received "Best Researcher Award - ANU", 2016.
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Received "UGC-BSR Faculty Fellowship", 2017.
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