Is an Associate Professor at Department of Physics, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia. He has published over 500 research papers in high impact international and national journals with over 25000 citations, h-index-67, i10-index 520 and also published 20 US and Eu patents and also filed new one in 2026. He also published more than 16 book chapters and edited 4 books on nanotechnology/Energy/Optoelectronics/Thin Films. He is leading a research group “Investigation on Novel Class of Materials (INCM) at KKU”. He was born in Madhopur, Pilibhit, UP, India in 1982. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from M.J.P. Rohilkhand University (MJPRU), Bareilly, India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Jamia Millia Islamia (a central university), India. Very recently he received an Excellence award named ¨Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Award for Excellence in Scientific Research 2020¨for working on a project ¨Structure-based modulation of SARS-CoV2 Nucleocapsid protein-protein interaction: Towards drug designing against COVID-19¨(COVID-19 RC#09). He got DS Kothari Post-Doctoral fellowship award and research associate from Solar Energy Centre: Government of India, He did his post-doctoral (PDF) research from Crystal Growth Lab (CGL), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain with Prof. E. Diegues, on topic of "System for Manufacturing Solar Cells For Multilayer And Procedure For Making These" and has a patent on it.
King Khalid University
Abhā, ‘Asīr, Saudi Arabia
Physics
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Received first award for maximum citations