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Vinay Gupta

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Vinay Gupta
Born(1972-03-31)31 March 1972(age 52)
Rajasthan,India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on organic solar cells, carbon nanotubes arrays andFörster resonance energy transfer
Awards2015 Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award & 2017Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Vinay Gupta(born 31 March 1972) is an Indian materials scientist and a former senior scientist at the Physics of Energy Harvesting department of theNational Physical Laboratory of India.Known for his studies on organic solar cells, carbon nanotubes arrays andFörster resonance energy transfer,Gupta is a formerAlexander von Humboldt Fellow.TheCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2017.[1][note 1]

Biography[edit]

Aichi Institute of Technology

Born on 31 March 1972 in the Indian state ofRajasthan,Vinay Gupta did his higher secondary studies under the State Education Board and earned his BSc and MSc degrees fromGovernment College, Ajmerin 1990 and 1992 respectively.[2]Subsequently, he enrolled for his doctoral studies atMaharshi Dayanand Saraswati University,securing a PhD in 1997. His doctoral work in Transport in 2D systems were divided among two institutions, starting withCNRSduring 1992–94 and later atNational Physical Laboratory of Indiaduring 1995–97. He also did post-doctoral work onLithium-ion batteryat Kyoto University as a JSPS fellow between 1998 and 2000 and atAichi Institute of Technologyfrom 2000 to 2003. The same year, he moved to Germany as anAlexander von Humboldt FellowatTechnische Universität Ilmenauto work oncarbon nanotubeandgraphenewhere he stayed till 2004. His next assignment was atKyushu Universityas a visiting associate professor and he returned to India to take up the position of the deputy general manager at Hindustan Electro Graphite, Bhopal on theNew Year's Dayof 2008. His stint at Bhopal lasted only a week and he went back to Kyushu University to resume his duties as a visiting faculty, a post he held for two months. In June 2008, he joined his old institution, National Physical Laboratory. Following differences with the institute administration, he resigned from National Physical Laboratory in June 2018 to take up a position of Research Associate at Khalifa University.[3]In between, he had a short stint as an Indo-US fellow at the laboratory ofAlan J. Heeger,aNobel Laureate in Physics,at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbarafrom August 2012 to July 2013,[2]and visiting professor at Shizuoka University, Japan from October 2016 to December 2016.

Research[edit]

FRETJablonski diagram

Gupta is known to have made notable contributions in the fields oforganic solar cells,carbon nanotubesandFörster resonance energy transfer.[4]His efforts are reported to have assisted in translating the science into viable technological products.[5]His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[6]andResearchGate,an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 90 of them.[7][note 2]He has also delivered plenary or keynote speeches at various seminars and conferences[8][9]and is the coordinator of the pre-conference workshop onThin Film Solar Cellsscheduled to be held in November 2017, in connection with the "17th International Conference on Thin Films-2017 (ICTF-17)".[10]

Awards and honours[edit]

Gupta has held three major research fellowships; JSPS fellowship of theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science(1998–2000),Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship(2003–04),[2]and Indo-US IUSSTF fellowship (2012-2013).Marquis Who's Whoincluded his biography in their 2002–03 edition and he received a certificate of appreciation from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2002. He was listed as the highest cited author byElsevierin 2006 and he was selected as one among the top 10 Indian scientists with the highest number of citations during the period 2010–14 byThomson Reutersin 2015.[11]The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Gupta theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize,one of the highest Indian science awards in 2017.[12]

Selected bibliography[edit]

  • V. Gupta, N. Chaudhary, R. Srivastava, G. D. Sharma, R. Bhardwaj, S. Chand (2011). "Luminscent Graphene Quantum Dots for Organic Photovoltaic Devices".Journal of the American Chemical Society.133(12): 9960–9963.doi:10.1002/anie.201106566.PMID22318942.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Vinay Gupta, Vishal Bharti, Mahesh Kumar, Suresh Chand, Alan J. Heeger (2015). "Polymer–Polymer Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Significantly Boosts the Power Conversion Efficiency of Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells".Advanced Materials.27(30): 4398–4404.Bibcode:2015AdM....27.4398G.doi:10.1002/adma.201501275.PMID26109435.S2CID9354537.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Vinay Gupta, Lai Fan Lai, Ram Datt, Suresh Chand, Alan J. Heeger, Guillermo C. Bazan, Surya Prakash Singh (2016). "Dithienogermole-based solution-processed molecular solar cells with efficiency over 9%".Chemical Communications.52(55): 8596–8599.doi:10.1039/C6CC03998G.PMID27321642.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Long link - please select award year to see details
  2. ^Please seeSelected bibliographysection

References[edit]

  1. ^"View Bhatnagar Awardees".Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 11 November 2017.Retrieved11 November2017.
  2. ^abc"Biographical Information - Vinay Gupta".National Physical Laboratory.3 November 2017.Retrieved3 November2017.
  3. ^"CSIR lab scientist quits in setback for talent-retention efforts".Businessline. 22 August 2018.
  4. ^"Brief Profile of the Awardee".Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 21 October 2017.Retrieved21 October2017.
  5. ^"Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners"(PDF).Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 17 October 2017.Retrieved17 October2017.
  6. ^"On Google Scholar".Google Scholar. 17 October 2017.Retrieved17 October2017.
  7. ^"On ResearchGate".17 October 2017.Retrieved17 October2017.
  8. ^"Speakers".SRM University.4 November 2017.Retrieved4 November2017.
  9. ^"ISCAS 2017"(PDF).Delhi Technological University.4 November 2017.Retrieved4 November2017.
  10. ^"Pre-Conference Workshop on Thin Film Solar Cells"(PDF).ICTF.4 November 2017.Retrieved4 November2017.
  11. ^"India's highly cited scientists".Nature.19 September 2015.Retrieved3 November2017.
  12. ^"10 scientists receive Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize".The Hindu.26 September 2017.Retrieved11 November2017.

External links[edit]

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