Dr. SUNIL KUMAR
EDUCATION
- PhD Materials Science, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore: 2012.
- MSc Physics, University of Delhi: 2004.
- BSc Physical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak: 2002.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Center for Electric Vehicle and Intelligent Transport Systems (CEVITS)
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
February 2022 – till date - Assistant Professor
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
December 2018 – February 2022 - DST INSPIRE Faculty
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
November 2015 – November 2020 - Assistant Professor (ad-hoc)
University of Delhi
January 2015 – May 2015 and July 2012 - December 2012 - Research Fellow
Faculty of Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singapore
December 2012 – 2014 - Research Associate
Materials Research Centre
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
November 2011 – June 2012 - Visiting Researcher (ERASMUS-MUNDUS Fellow)
Department of Applied Physics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
May 2010 - November 2010
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
- Best Teacher Award, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (year 2024).
- Best Teacher Award, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (year 2022).
- Early Career Research Award (year 2017), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India.
- Life Member, Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), since 2016
- DST - INSPIRE Faculty Award (year 2015).
- SERC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NUS Singapore: years 2012 - 2014).
- ERASMUS-MUNDUS fellowship (year 2010) awarded by European Commission for research stay at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
- Research Fellowship (JRF and SRF) awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India (2006-2010).
- National Eligibility Test (NET-JRF) conducted jointly by UGC-CSIR, India.
- Secured position among top 20% of all JRF awardees in the field of Physical Sciences conducted by CSIR and invited for prestigious SPM fellowship examination held in 2004 (effectively among the top ~ 0.17% of all candidates appeared for NET examination.
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
- JOURNALS: Verified peer-reviews list available at Web-of-Science Profile
- Nature Communicatoins
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Energy Storage Materials
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Journal of Power Sources
- Chemical Engineering Journal
- Nanoscale
- Electrochimica Acta
- Journal of Energy Chemistry
- Materials Today Energy
- ACS Applied Nano Materials
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
- Dalton Transactions
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Langmuir
- CrystEngComm
- Sustainable Energy & Fuels
- Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
- ACS Applied Electronic Materials
- RSC Advances
- Applied Surface Science
- ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering B
- Journal of the American Ceramic Society
- International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology
- Journal of Asian Ceramic Societies
- Electrochemistry
- Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Applied Physics Letters
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Journal of Physics: Energy
- Nanotechnology
- ACS Omega
- Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry
- Journal of Advanced Ceramics
- Bulletin of Materials Science
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Materials Chemistry and Physics
- Ceramics International
- Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
- Materials Characterization
- Materials Letters
- Journal of Electronic Materials
- Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society
- Sādhanā
- Defence Science Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences
- PANEL REVIEWER: Research project proposals submitted for:
- Core Research Grant (SERB)
- Early Career Research Award, Special Calls (SERB)
- Young Scientist (Start-up Research Grants, SERB)
- DST Special Calls
- Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute: Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant
- Shastri Research Student Doctoral Fellowship
- Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
- Faculty Coordinator, Institute Science and Technology Committee, IIT Indore
- Member, Institute Student Mobility, Admission and Exchange Committee, IIT Indore
- Convener, CEVITS Centre Post-Graduate Committee (CPGC), IIT Indore (years 2021 - now)
- Member, MEMS Department Under-Graduate Committee (DUGC), IIT Indore (years 2022 - now)
- Member, MEMS Department Post-Graduate Committee (DPGC), IIT Indore (years 2018, 19)
- Convener, MEMS Department Computer Committee (December 2018 to December 2019), IIT Indore
- Convener, MEMS Department Website Committee, IIT Indore
- Convener, Admission in PhD program in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Indore (years 2017, 2019)