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Ajay Kumar Sood
FRS
Sood in 2015 (portrait from the Royal Society)
4th Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Incumbent
Assumed office
April 2022
Preceded byK. Vijayraghavan
Personal details
Born
Ajay Kumar Sood

(1951-06-26) 26 June 1951 (age 74)[1]
Gwalior, Madhya Bharat, India[1]
EducationIndian Institute of Science
Awards
Websitephysics.iisc.ernet.in/~asood

Ajay Kumar Sood (born 26 June 1951)[1] is an Indian physicist and researcher currently serving as the 4th Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

He holds 2 United States and 5 Indian patents,[3][4] and is known for his research findings[5] on graphene and nanotechnology.[6][7] He is a Distinguished Honorary Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.[8] The Government of India honoured him in 2013, with the Padma Shri for his contributions to the fields of science and technology.[9] Sood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[2][10] He has been on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019.[11] He serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Nano.[12]

Biography

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The sound of music is also deep physics. Of course, you don't need to know that to appreciate music says Dr. Ajay K. Sood.[13]

Ajay Kumar Sood was born on 26 June 1951,[5] in Gwalior, India.[1][3] He graduated in physics (BSc Hons)[5] from the Punjab University, Chandigarh, in 1971, and followed it with a master's degree, (MSc Hons)[5] a year later, from the same university. In 1973, he joined the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, as a scientist where he worked till 1988. During this period, he enrolled for research at the Indian Institute of Science from where he obtained his PhD, in 1982. He also did post doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, from 1983 to 1985.[3][13]

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) offered Sood the post of an associate professor at the institution in 1988,[5] which he accepted. In 1994, he was promoted as the Professor of the Department of Physics at IISc.[5][7][14] Four years later, he rose to the position of the chairman of the Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, IISc, which he held until 2008.[5] Sood has also been holding the position of the honorary professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru since 1993.[3][5][6]

Sood lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka state, India, associating himself with the Indian Institute of Science and the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.[3]

Research and legacy

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Sood has done research on hard condensed matter and soft condensed matter physics, with special emphasis on Raman scattering and nanotechnology.[5][dead link][13]

Research on resonance Raman studies

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Sood, along with his team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, has done experiments on semiconductor superlattices, fullerenes, solid C60, C70[15] and single walled carbon nanotubes and optical phonons.[5][16][17] They was successful in exciting squeezed phonon states in KTa03 crystals using femtosecond laser pulses and employing impulsive simulated Raman scattering.[5][18] He has also shown that liquid flow in a singled walled carbon nanotube induces the voltage and current to flow along the floor direction of the tube.

Other research efforts

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Sood has also experimented with soft condensed matter like micelle composed viscoelastic gels.[5][19] He developed an ultrasensitive immunoassay by subjecting colloids to an electrical field, thus generating nonequilibrium phenomena.[5][13] He has developed a medical diagnostic kit.[13]

Sood is now working on the modalities of enhancing the viscosity of a material by adding nanotubes without increasing its weight.[13]

Academic fellowships and positions

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Sood is a fellow of science academies and institutions such as the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc)[5] (1991), the Indian National Science Academy (FNA) (1996), The World Academy of Sciences (FTWAS)[5] (2002) and the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc)[5] (1995)[4][5] and holds the Bhatnagar Chair of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.[4] He is the incumbent Secretary General of The World Academy of Sciences[20] and a former President of the Indian Academy of Sciences from 2010 to 2012[4] and the vice-president of the Indian National Science Academy from 2008 to 2010. He also served as a member of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials[21] in 2008.[3]

Sood was an executive editor of Solid State Communications.[22] He is also an editorial board member of the journals, Scientific Reports, Particle[23] and EPL (Europhysics Letters).[24]

Sood has served on the scientific advisory committee to the Prime Minister of India from 2009 to 2014,[13] and is the Chairman of the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi.[3]

Awards and recognitions

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He was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, in 1990, by the Government of India.[3][4][5] In 2013, the Government of India followed it up with the fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri.[9]

The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) recognised Sood's services by conferring on him the TWAS Prize in Physics, in 2000.[4][5] The same year, he received four more awards viz. G. D. Birla Science Award,[5] Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Award,[4][5] Materials Research Society (India) Medal and Millennium Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress.[4][5] Two years later, in 2002, he received the Homi Jehangir Bhabha Medal of Indian National Science Academy.[4][5] The next year, in 2003, he was selected for the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Alumni Award for Excellence in Research for Science. Three more awards came his way the same year, viz. M. N. Saha Birth Centenary Award of the Indian Science Congress,[4][5] Sir C. V. Raman Award of the University Grants Commission[4][5] and the Goyal Prize in Physics.[3][4][5] Sood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "SOOD, Prof. Ajay Kumar". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Ajay Sood FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "IISC Profile" (PDF). IISC. 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Bangalore Nano". Bangalore Nano. 2014. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z "INSA". INSA. 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Heroes of the city's scientific success story". India Today. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  7. ^ a b "Google Scholar". Google Scholar. 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Department of Physics - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore". www.physics.iisc.ernet.in.
  9. ^ a b "Padma 2013". The Hindu. 26 January 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Kamal Bawa and Ajay Sood elected FRS - Gonit Sora". 1 May 2015.
  11. ^ "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  12. ^ pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/editors.html
  13. ^ a b c d e f g "India Today Sood Effect". India Today. 10 September 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  14. ^ "IISc home page". IISc. 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  15. ^ Sundar, C. S.; Sahu, P. Ch; Sastry, V. S.; Rao, G. V. N.; Sridharan, V.; Premila, M.; Bharathi, A.; Hariharan, Y.; Radhakrishnan, T. S.; Muthu, D. V. S.; Sood, A. K. (2014). "C60 and C70". Physical Review B. 53 (13). Google Scholar: 8180–8183. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.53.8180. PMID 9982302. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  16. ^ Sood, A. K.; Menéndez, J.; Cardona, M.; Ploog, K. (13 May 1985). "Superlattice". Physical Review Letters. 54 (19). Google Scholar: 2111–2114. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.2111. PMID 10031232. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  17. ^ "Nano Archive 2". Nano Archive. 2 April 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  18. ^ "Femtosecond". Femtosecond. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  19. ^ Ganapathy, Rajesh; Sood, A. K. (2006). "Micelle". Physical Review Letters. 96 (10). Google Scholar: 108301. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.108301. PMID 16605795. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  20. ^ "TWAS". TWAS. 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  21. ^ "APAM". APAM. 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  22. ^ "Solid State Communications Editorial Board". www.journals.elsevier.com. 18 September 2020. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  23. ^ "Particle". Particle. 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  24. ^ "EPL". EPL. 2014. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.

Further reading

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  • C. N. R. Rao and Ajay K. Sood (2013). Graphene: Synthesis, Properties, and Phenomena. Wiley-VCH. p. 438. ISBN 978-3527332588.
  • Dinesh K. Sood (Editor), Ajay P. Malshe (Editor), Ryutaro Maeda (Editor) (2002). Nano- and Microtechnology: Materials, Processes, Packaging, and Systems (Proceedings of Spie). Society of Photo Optical. p. 488. ISBN 978-0819447319. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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