Ajay Kumar Sood
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Ajay Sood in 2015, portrait from the Royal Society
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Ajay Kumar Sood (born 1951) is an Indian physicist, researcher and holder of 2 US and 5 Indian patents, known for his pioneering research findings on graphene and nanotechnology. He is a Distinguished Honorary Professor of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. The Government of India honoured him in 2013, with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of science and technology. Sood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.
Ajay K. Sood was born on 26 June 1951, in Gwalior, India. He graduated in Physics (BSc Hons) from the Punjab University, Chandigarh, in 1971, and followed it with a master's degree, (MSc Hons) 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 fur FKF, Stuttgart, Germany, from 1983 to 1985.
The Indian Institute of Science offered Dr. Sood, the post of an Associate Professor at the institution in 1988, which he accepted. In 1994, he was promoted as the Professor of the Department of Physics at IISc. 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. Sood has also been holding the position of the Honorary Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru since 1993.
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