Prof. Pankaj R. Sagdeo – prs@iiti.ac.in

ACADEMICS

Prof. Pankaj Ramesh Sagdeo was born and brought up in India’s most beautiful city of Nagpur.
He completed his Bachelor’s degree in 1999 from Nagpur University, Nagpur.
After that, he did his Masters from the University of Pune, Pune in 2001.
For his doctoral work, he demonstrates the structural origin and importance of strain responsible for various electronic and magnetic phases observed in Perovskite Oxides from UGC-DAE CSR INDORE in the year 2007.
Along with this, he worked as a Research Associate at UGC-DAE CSR INDORE on the topic “Study of the electronic structure of Ca doped LaMnO3 using PES beamline BL-2 on INDUS-1 Synchrotron x-ray source” and “Design and development of XMCD beamline on INDUS-2 Synchrotron x-ray source” in 2007-2008.

After completing Ph.D. Prof. Sagdeo Joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in 2008 as a Scientific Officer-D where he set up the state of the art coating facilities for optical and neutron mirror applications at BARC and proudly published first research publication from BARC/DAE Visakhapatnam.
In June 2012 Prof. Sagdeo joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore as an Assistant Professor.
In IIT Indore Prof. Sagdeo is involved in Research, Teaching and established a Material Research Laboratory which works on the physics of highly correlated electron system, quantum confinements in nanocrystalline systems and scientific instrumentation development.
More than 100 research papers published P.R. Sagdeo – Google Scholar Profile.
Prof. Sagdeo is having a strong hold on various important sample characterization techniques and working as a referee for various scientific journals of AIP, IOP, Elsevier, MRS, Wiley, Springer, etc.