Dr. Saumen Mandal | Ceramics & Thin Film

ABOUT ME

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FIELD OF INTEREST

Thin film technology
Solution combustion
Large area printing
Oxide and non-oxide advanced ceramics
High entropy oxide
Metal oxide based gas sensors
Marine bioceramics
Antibiofouling coatings
UV protective coatings

EMPLOYMENT

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Associate Professor

Dongguk University

Post Doctoral Research fellow

Project: Organic TFTs based printed circuits

Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Center for Nano Science and Technology

Post Doctoral Research fellow

Project: All organic, all inkjet printed complementary circuit on a flexible substrate.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Project Engineer & Sr Student

QUALIFICATIONS

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering

Thesis: Materials and processes for printed flexible organic thin film transistors

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi

M. Tech. Ceramic Engineering

University of Calcutta, Kolkata

B. Tech. Ceramic Technology

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS

The editor-in-chief of International journal of Applied Ceramic Society recommends this outstanding article “A review on high entropy silicides and silicates: Fundamental aspects, synthesis, properties” Ashritha Salian, Pradyut Sengupta, Iteesha A, Avinash Gowda, Saumen Mandal
“Best paper by Young Researcher Award - 2024” to Mr. Lakkimsetti Lakshmi Praveen working under the guidance of Dr. Saumen Mandal, during the International Conference on Advanced Ceramics for Sustainability (Cera4s 2024) (November 28 – 30, 2024), organized by IIT Madras.
Winner of “NanoArtography Competition 2023: The Art of Capturing Beauty at the Nanoscale” to Mr. Lakkimsetti Lakshmi Praveen, working under the guidance of Dr. Saumen Mandal, organized by Purdue University, USA on 30th September 2023
“Metallography Contest Award” to Mr. Mahin Saif Nowl, working under the guidance of Dr. Saikat Dutta and Dr. Saumen Mandal, in the International Conference on Advances in Minerals, Metals, Materials, Manufacturing and Modelling (ICAM5-2023) (September 22 – 23, 2023), organized by NIT Warangal.
Best paper award in "International Conference on Women in Electrochemistry (ICWEC 2023), Electrochemical Society of India, April 7 – 8, 2023, IISc Bengaluru, India.
Best paper award in “National Symposium on Electrochemical Science and Technology (NSEST 2021)”, June 24 – 25, 2022, IISc Bengaluru, India.
Awarded by MANOHAR PARRIKAR PRASHASTI for propelling the frontier of GLOBALPOWERINDIA 2021 from Rethink India on 09th September 2021.
Certificate of Achievement for excellent performance in Outreach Program 2018-19 from “The Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation, The American Ceramic Society”.
Best poster award in (a) “National Conference on Processing of Materials (NCOPOM18)”, September 19-21, 2018, NITK Surathkal, India and (b) “International Conference on Surface Engineering”, August 9 – 11, 2018, IISc Bengaluru, India.
Best poster award in (a) “International Conference on Nanotechnology (ICNano-2016)”, April, 2123, 2016, Bangaluru, India and (b) “International Conference Smart Materials and Technologies for Emerging Electronics (IC-SMTEE-2016)”, February 19 and 20, 2016, Mangalore, India.
Prestigious “Gandhian Young Technological Award, 2014”- from Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, Govt of India.
“Invention Award” of USD 10000 from Intellectual Venture Asia for US Patent on 16th May, 2013.
“Invention Award” of USD 1000 from Intellectual Venture Asia on 20th April, 2012.
Best poster award in (a) “International Conference on Nano Science and Technology” (ICONSAT 2010), February 17-20, 2010 and (b) “XVth International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices”, December 15-19, 2009.
Gold medalist in Master of Technology, IIT-Banaras Hindu University, 2006 for being University topper.