Electron Microscopy in Science and Engineering

Dr. Krishanu Biswas Ranjit Singh Chair Professor at Department of Material Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has made significant contribution towards understanding of several important scientific and technological aspects of metallurgy and materials engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and B.Tech. from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, India. His research interests ranges from complex concentrated alloys, high entropy materials, electron microscopy, novel processing of ceramic composites, development of alloy catalysis for energy and environment. He has received a number of awards, fellowships and professional reorganization. He has published over 190 papers in international repute peer reviewed journals, three patents, ten book chapters, two books and delivered 50 invited talks in different national and international conferences. He has completed several projects from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA) to bigger projects from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Board of Research on Nuclear Sciences (BRNS). He is a member of Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) and Global Young Academy (GYA). He is also recipient of Young Faculty fellowship from IIT Kanpur.

Dr. Sri Sivakumar is currently working as professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He also serves as Associate Faculty in Materials Science Programme and Co-ordinator of Centre for Nanoscience and Advanced Imaging Centre. He obtained his B.Sc. (Tech) and M.Sc. (Tech) degree from University Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai in 1997 and 2001 respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Victoria in 2006. Dr. Sivakumar carried out his post-doctoral research at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Sivakumar's research focuses on development of functional nanomaterials for biological and environmental/catalytic applications. He has authored over 100 publications, four book chapters, 11 patents and edited one book. He has obtained thirteen grants worth of Rs. 13 crores from government agencies as well as from industry (Chevron, HPCL, Aarti Industries, and TCS). Furthermore, he has graduated 17 Ph.D. students and is currently supervising ten Ph.D. students. Professor Sivakumar works on synthesis of functional nanomaterials for catalysis and biomedical applications. His work on catalysis includes both chemical and electro catalysis.

Dr. Nilesh Gurao is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India in 2010 and Bachelors in Technology from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India in 2005 prior to attending the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada for a postdoctotoral position. He has established the Microstructure-Texture-Stress Laboratory at IIT Kanpur and has graduated five Ph.D. and 12 master's students till date. The research work from the group has resulted in multiple projects with different government and private funding agencies and high quality journal publications. Dr. Gurao is a recipient of the INSA Young Scientist award from the Indian National Science Academy and the Young Metallurgist of the Year award from Ministry of Steel, Government of India. His current research interests include mechanical behavior of materials, crystallographic texture, crystal plasticity simulations and diffraction studies with special emphasis on in situ diffraction experiments across real and reciprocal space.

印度理工學院（IIT）坎普爾分校材料科學與工程系的Krishanu Biswas博士是Ranjit Singh講座教授，對冶金學和材料工程的多個重要科學和技術方面有顯著貢獻。他在印度科學研究所（IISc）獲得博士學位，並在印度國家技術學院（NIT）杜爾加普爾分校獲得學士學位。他的研究興趣包括復雜濃縮合金、高熵材料、電子顯微鏡、陶瓷複合材料的新型加工、合金催化劑在能源和環境方面的應用。他獲得了多個獎項、獎學金和專業認可。他在國際知名同行評審期刊上發表了190多篇論文，擁有三項專利、十篇專書章節、兩本書籍，並在不同的國家和國際會議上發表了50次邀請演講。他完成了來自印度太空研究組織（ISRO）和印度國家科學院（INSA）的多個項目，以及來自科學與技術部（DST）、生物技術部（DBT）和核科學研究委員會（BRNS）的大型項目。他是印度國家年輕科學院（INYAS）和全球年輕科學院（GYA）的成員，也是印度理工學院坎普爾分校的年輕教師獎學金獲得者。

Sri Sivakumar博士目前在印度理工學院坎普爾分校化學工程系擔任教授。他還兼任材料科學計劃的副教授和先進成像中心的協調員。他於1997年和2001年分別在孟買的化學技術大學（ICT）獲得B.Sc.（Tech）和M.Sc.（Tech）學位。他於2006年在維多利亞大學獲得博士學位，並在墨爾本大學進行博士後研究。Sivakumar博士的研究重點是開發用於生物和環境/催化應用的功能性納米材料。他已發表了100多篇論文，撰寫了四篇專書章節，擁有11項專利並編輯了一本書。他從政府機構和行業（Chevron、HPCL、Aarti Industries和TCS）獲得了價值1300萬盧比的13項資助。此外，他已經培養了17名博士生，目前正在指導十名博士生。Sivakumar教授的工作涉及催化和生物醫學應用的功能性納米材料的合成。他在催化方面的工作包括化學和電催化。

Nilesh Gurao博士目前是印度理工學院坎普爾分校材料科學與工程系的副教授。他在2010年從印度科學研究所（IISc）獲得材料工程博士學位，並在2005年從印度維斯韋沃拉亞國家技術學院獲得學士學位，之後在加拿大薩斯喀彻温大学進行博士後研究。他在坎普爾分校建立了微結構-紋理-應力實驗室，並至今已培養了五名博士生和十二名碩士生。該研究小組的研究成果已經與不同的政府和私人資助機構合作，並在高質量期刊上發表了多篇論文。Gurao博士是印度國家科學院的年輕科學家獎和印度鋼鐵部的年度冶金學家獎的獲得者。他目前的研究興趣包括材料的力學行為、晶體學紋理、晶體塑性模擬和關於實空間和倒空間的原位繞射實驗。