Curriculum Vitae - National Metallurgical Laboratory

(ii) Nijhawan Award-2004 for the best technical paper within National MetallurgicalLaboratory,Jamshedpur, India(iii) NML’s best In-house Project completed in 2005 for the project” Development ofNanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Materials for high temperature applications” (OLP-0020)(iv) Indian National Science Academy (INSA) visiting fellowship for the year 2009-2010(v) Best technical paper award in R & D titled “Characterisation of Cr-Mo Steelsubjected to high temperature using magnetic NDE technique” published in Journalof Nondestructive Testing & Evaluation (official journal of ISNT), awarded byISNT during the year 2008-09 at NIT, Trichy, NDE-2009, 10-12Dec’09(vi) Second best poster award at 47 th NMD- 63 rd ATM of Indian Institute of Metals inthe year 2009 held at Kolkata, India 16-17Nov, 2009(vii) V.A Altekar award for best technology transferred from the laboratory during theyear 2008 for the technology developed entitled “ Development of manufacturingtechnology for the production of Fe-based wide metallic glass ribbons”. Thetechnology has been transferred to M/s Vacuum techniques, Bangalore.(viii) First prize in Metallography contest under the category of Transmission electronMicroscopy at 48 th NMD-64 th ATM , 14-16Nov2010, IISc Bangalore.(ix) Best poster paper award at National seminar on NDE-2010, 9-11Dec2010, Sciencecity, Kolkata(x) First prize in Metallography contest under the category of Transmission electronMicroscopy at 49 th NMD-65 th ATM , 14-16Nov2011, Hyderabad(xi) First prize in Metallography contest under the category of Scanning electronMicroscopy at 49 th NMD-65 th ATM , 14-16Nov2011, Hyderabad(xii) First prize in poster presentation under the category of functional materials at 49 thNMD-65 th ATM , 14-16Nov2011, HyderabadVISITS ABROAD:1. Ames laboratory, Iowa State University, USA: As a visiting scientist under DST-NSF collaborative Project (25 th May – 11 th June 2005)2. Cardiff University, UK: Participated in International conference on Soft MagneticMaterials, SMM18 (2 nd – 5 th Sept’ 2007)3. Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Bratislava, Slovakia: INSA visiting fellowship(4 th July09 – 4 th Sept09)4. Italian Research Institute on Metrology (INRIM), Torino, Italy:(a) Participated in International conference on Soft Magnetic Materials, SMM19 (5 th– 9 th Sept’ 2009)(b) Participated in Universal Network on Magnetic Non-destructive evaluation3